I need to really try to consistently write. This time, I'll just describe my most recent free day (the day I did my last entry) and talk about a few things I've started to notice.
Saturday was super fun. :) My partner and I just hung around Machida Eki, but there was still tons of stuff to do there. In trying to find a ramen place, we found two older people at an information booth who were really talkative. The place we went to wasn't the one they recommended, but it was delicious. Yumie and I hit up a few game centers (I even got the courage to finally play Reflec Beat for the first time), and went to a Starbucks! At the Starbucks they gave me a little card to hand back to them when my drink was done because I ordered a drink with soy milk. They take milk allergy seriously there, even though it would have been okay since I only get soy because of the taste. Yumie and I then met up with Chiaki, who used to be an international student at Davis! She was really sweet, and we tried to go to this cool green tea dessert place, but it was super expensive. Chiaki even got Yumie and I omiyage.
Afterwards we met up with Ryota again. We went to my first ever izakaya! It was fun, but I was a little disappointed because everything tasted so weak, even when I asked for a double shot.
Cuba libre even in Japan!
After that free day though... Working here is super fun, but for some reason it's really tiring. My work day is long, but I have a lot of break in between. But I guess it's just the monotony of constantly dish-washing that does it. The kids are great though! Today Yumie and I watched three of the younger children (who didn't have school today) while the staff had a meeting. We played outside for only two hours, but with the humidity it was pretty tough. The kids are really well behaved though, and listened to us when we told them not to do something. One of the boys in my house was hilarious too: he started screaming all of a sudden, like he was going to die, and stretched out his hand. Yumie and I freaked out and thought he had cut himself or something, but all it was was a small ant on his hand, so Yumie just flicked it off. He also tries to smash beetles or spiders when he sees them.
Tonight was also very fun. The kids are really curious, and I think they're getting more used to talking to this random foreigner who visits their house and uses really bad Japanese. They enjoy saying random phrases and learning things, and when I need help, like when I don't know what cupboard a bowl goes in, they help. The older kids are all really nice too. They say really encouraging things to the younger kids, and even like offer say, the cushion they're lying on when two of the younger kids start fighting over the last cushion to lie on. Even the high school boys, who live in a separate cottage from the mixed-gender cottage and sometimes seem standoff-ish, all showed a lot of attention when a little boy fell over while trying to help stack chairs.
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