Dinner in Shinjuku
Oh! for the life of leisure and travel now that I am in the throes of student insanity! When did doing so many classes seem like a good idea ?
To say nothing of trying to come up with a half-way decent thesis proposal for next year!!! Epp!
I all can say is thank goodness for one-day school weeks!! That's right, folks! This week is school festival and thus Monday was our one and only day of lessons - but that was an effort to get through! First through to Fourth - ickk! Thick with paper handing-in, tests, incomplete homework and other assorted errands squeezed into the non-existent sparetime!
I have soo much to do in the week though that no lessons is unlikely to make me less busy!
英会話(eikaiwa - English conversation class - see how much more effecient the Japanese is ?!) tomorrow with my ridiculously effervescent house-wife student. She's so bubbly and excited that the time flies, but I can imagine that other Japnese people might think she's a little unusual!
Some fun scheduled in for the week - can't be all work and no play! Case in point being all yesterday spent in the ever-pleasent company of Ryoko (良子 - 'good child' as she so wittily points out in her email address) on a daytrip to Miyajima, location of the famous Torii (great red 'gate' out in the sea) of Itsukushima Shrine. I climbed Mount Misen for the second time (much better weather this time, being quite a bit cooler than the humid spring day we chose last time) whilst it was the first Ryoko had been to Miyajima in ten years! To be fair, she is from Nagasaki!
Then at the top we did the quintessential Japanese thing to accompany hiking - bento eating! Ryoko, to my surprise had prepared a beautiful little feast, which we enjoyed on the cool mountaintop!
After the descent we indulged in Momiji-mandu (maple leaf-shaped little sweet cakes filled with a variety of different fillings - traditionally, 餡 'an' (red bean (adzuki) paste), which presumably put back on whatever we walked off!
Anyway, I ought to get to bed as I almost fell asleep at 8pm and now it's near 12.
But . . . Shinjuku. I think that is where we went . . .
It was super, unexpected fun to hang out with Bonnie whilst in Tokyo during the summer holidays. I was dazzled by the Tokyo train system, but eventually got us to a show that Bonnie had told us about - it was interesting to meet her friends and hear about a different style of being a gaijin in Japan.
She also kindly agreed to meet up with us again and show us some sights, which turned out to be a fun and long day of shopping, sight-seeing and food. She had certainly discovered some interesting places and took us to the top of this huge building for dinner at an Izakaya-ish (traditional homestyle/pubish) restaurant with a commanding view of the strawberry scattered Tokyo skyline.
楽しかったです、ボニー！ お世話になっておりました。 どうもありがとうございます！
To say nothing of trying to come up with a half-way decent thesis proposal for next year!!! Epp!
I all can say is thank goodness for one-day school weeks!! That's right, folks! This week is school festival and thus Monday was our one and only day of lessons - but that was an effort to get through! First through to Fourth - ickk! Thick with paper handing-in, tests, incomplete homework and other assorted errands squeezed into the non-existent sparetime!
I have soo much to do in the week though that no lessons is unlikely to make me less busy!
英会話(eikaiwa - English conversation class - see how much more effecient the Japanese is ?!) tomorrow with my ridiculously effervescent house-wife student. She's so bubbly and excited that the time flies, but I can imagine that other Japnese people might think she's a little unusual!
Some fun scheduled in for the week - can't be all work and no play! Case in point being all yesterday spent in the ever-pleasent company of Ryoko (良子 - 'good child' as she so wittily points out in her email address) on a daytrip to Miyajima, location of the famous Torii (great red 'gate' out in the sea) of Itsukushima Shrine. I climbed Mount Misen for the second time (much better weather this time, being quite a bit cooler than the humid spring day we chose last time) whilst it was the first Ryoko had been to Miyajima in ten years! To be fair, she is from Nagasaki!
Then at the top we did the quintessential Japanese thing to accompany hiking - bento eating! Ryoko, to my surprise had prepared a beautiful little feast, which we enjoyed on the cool mountaintop!
After the descent we indulged in Momiji-mandu (maple leaf-shaped little sweet cakes filled with a variety of different fillings - traditionally, 餡 'an' (red bean (adzuki) paste), which presumably put back on whatever we walked off!
Anyway, I ought to get to bed as I almost fell asleep at 8pm and now it's near 12.
But . . . Shinjuku. I think that is where we went . . .
It was super, unexpected fun to hang out with Bonnie whilst in Tokyo during the summer holidays. I was dazzled by the Tokyo train system, but eventually got us to a show that Bonnie had told us about - it was interesting to meet her friends and hear about a different style of being a gaijin in Japan.
She also kindly agreed to meet up with us again and show us some sights, which turned out to be a fun and long day of shopping, sight-seeing and food. She had certainly discovered some interesting places and took us to the top of this huge building for dinner at an Izakaya-ish (traditional homestyle/pubish) restaurant with a commanding view of the strawberry scattered Tokyo skyline.
楽しかったです、ボニー！ お世話になっておりました。 どうもありがとうございます！
posted by Eleanora Martinez at 4:59 AM
1 Comments:
That is such a cool pic of you guys...nice atmospheric lighting :) Lovely to hear of all your happenings Ellie xx
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