Thursday, August 11, 2011

Umai deshou???

So I definitely have the best homestay family in the world. First of all, chichi (dad- his name is actually takanari but we all just call him chichi i dunno) has had three days off of work which is really rare since he usually only has tuesday off. I don't know if I've mentioned this before or not, but he's a chef at a high end italian restaurant. So he cooked one of the pasta dishes for us on monday which was amazing. tuesday we went out to eat at this udon place (noodles) and tonight we had curry rice that he made. It was delicious. So I take my ofuro then go upstairs to put the finishing touches on my packed suitcase and rei bursts in the door and babbles something about eating on the shinkansen (bullet train). So I was like okay let's go downstairs. I get down there and yuki was like hey let's go to the suupaa (super market) and buy some okashi (sweets/snacks) for you to eat on the train!! I was like awesome! So we went and she bought me four things of snacks!!!! Rei was then bitter because he only got to pick one hahhaha. So we get home and I saw this cake that Yuki had made in preparation for her next class and I said Oh that looks awesome! And she said some weird word that I didn't understand, and when I still didn't understand it after they gave me the italian and french words for it, she says, I'll draw you a picture! So she does and looking back after I knew what the word meant, it was a very accurate picture, but she drew what the cake looked like next to it, which really confused me. So I'm sitting there trying to figure it out and and chichi hands me his phone which had translated the word into "chestnut" so I let out a loud OHH! and then yuki looks at the picture and then at me and goes "UMAI DESHOUU???" and I couldn't stop laughing because that means "it's really great, right???"-talking about the picture. So then chichi looks down at the picture of the cake, which really looks like a cartoon of fecal matter, and he draws a fly coming off of it and I laughed even harder and continued laughing when yuki exclaimed that was wrong and drew what a cartoon of fecal matter is SUPPOSED to look like, correctly. Then i said, and with that.... good night. and we laughed some more as i walked up the stairs. all in all, a great night. and KYUUSHUU TRIP TOMORROW SO EXCITED!!!!!
On a side note, however, today I had two  successful Japanese person interactions. Here's the vocab that'll help out (keeping in mind that these conversations were in japanese!!!! yeahhhhhh)
ojiichan-old man (really grandpa, but they use them interchangeably), tenin-lady at the drug store
okay great.

1)
ojiichan: (coming off the bus)  it's really hot isn't it??
me: it sure is!!
ojiichan: where are you going?
me: i'm going to kirindo (over there).
ojiichan: Oh okay, bye!

2)
me: excuse me, this is sunscreen, right?
tenin: yep!
me: is it for adults?
tenin: it is, yes.
me: ahh. why does it say baby on it?
tenin: oh, that's because it's for people from babies to adults.
me: okay great! thanks!
tenin: no problem!

So really, today was pretty good after I left the cafe. I was kind of in a weird/bad mood all day, but it got significantly better after I talked to the ojiichan. Yay! Okay back to packing!
Jya~

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