Living in the midwest all of my life has not prepared me for the wide variety of sea life that is available for consumption. Therefore, when I went to Japan and wandered around the supermarket, I was totally flabbergasted by the sheer variety of fish available. Now that I am back in the U.S., hopefully I can shed some light on what kinds of fish you might see in the markets if you are in Japan.
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While I never ordered pizza while in Japan, I did look at plenty of their strange (to me) menu items! I also bought a book in Japanese that talks about pizza. Check it out below: There were days while I was in Japan that I would spend indoors, even if the weather was nice. I would be on my computer or watching TV or reading books in English. While these are not bad things, these were things I could be doing back in America. So, I wanted to share this "menu" with you that I got from Maruto--a grocery store in Japan. Even if you can't read Japanese, it is still interesting to see what they like to eat for Christmas!
A few weeks before returning to America, I was contacted by one of the Japanese teachers from my hometown in Iowa. She told me that she was going part-time and that the other 3 hours of Japanese were going to be available.
Excited, I applied for the job, even though I had not passed the Oral Proficiency Interview in Japanese that was required by my university in order for me to obtain my teaching license. I had taken the test before I left for Japan, but had only received Intermediate Mid. In order to pass, I need to be at the Advanced Low level. This list is in no particular order, just things that I miss about Japan that I cannot get/do here in Iowa.
"Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks." --Robert Louis Stevenson There were two houses that really stuck out to me during my year in Japan.
One was just down the street from where I lived and the other was in the downtown area. Let me talk about the first one before I go on to the more interesting one. Remember: when disaster strikes, the time to prepare has passed. --Steven Cyros I think it was during my first few months in Japan that the news brought up the concern of the biggest typhoon of that year.
"Let those who wish have their respectability--I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farther most corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic" --Richard Halliburton I guess that is what Japan was to me--freedom. My whole life, I have lived with someone else, always had to be conscious of how I behaved and how it would affect them. In Japan, I lived alone. Well, not necessarily. I mean, I had Rodger and Ariana just next door, across the balcony, and Meagan was down the way, as well as all the other teachers in the building, but I was living in an apartment by myself. No roommates, husband or family. I did buy two goldfish after a few months, though--Aragorn and Legolas. They were pretty awesome company. Didn't ask for anything except food every once and a while. |
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