I want a bamboo plant and see it grow the, what?, 20cm a day.

Part of tomorrow's lunch: curry pizza pan/bread

How do you eat a whole boiled egg using chopsticks? And picking apart a whole fish using chopsticks is very annoying. Plus you have all those little bones..

Me and my flashcards

I'm too sensible to ride the Yamanote all the way round. Got off at Akihabara to change to the Keihin-Tohoku and go home.

Today, I checked my Kent Uni mail for the first time in weeks and found out that I could opt to log in volunteering hours for keeping a blog while I'm out here. Isn't that crazy? It's a massive incentive to update you on my awesome weekends here (I HAVE BEEN IN JAPAN FOR TWO MONTHS TO THIS DAY), but I have a lot of work to do.. I have lots of Japanese vocab to catch up for language classes, an essay to hand in next week and notes to write up.

Silly gaijin going crazy over salad. It'd been ages since I had sweetcorn.

note: this is the first time I've taken a video on my phone and so also the first time I've posted a video from my phone. but, still, I apologise for the poor quality. Wasedasai, the annual Waseda festival, was this weekend and it was so good that I no longer care about posting in chronological order. I had, all these weeks, simply given you photos and no tales of my weekends because I am too often too busy and/or tired. please try to find clips of the yosakoi performances at Wasedasai this year, especially by a group with 'samurai' in their name. they were mind-blowing. Wasedasai overall was a lot better than Artsfest at UKC, so I will try to at least bring yosakoi to Artsfest via the Japanese soc (and you will thank me).

Tastes just like the curry bread sold at the bakery in Oriental City. Here it's called カリーパン curry pan. Japanese cuisine has only one kind of curry.

This pack of 12 pieces of すし (sushi) from the スーパー (supermarket) for just 225円 omg