It's been a busy weekend. Saturday we planned to go to the local beach to clean up garbage with Ben's Eikaiwa group. We thought it started at 11, but at 10:20 we got a call saying they were on the beach. Turns out it ended at 11, and we got there in time to catch the end of the closing ceremony, and have a juice box. Anyways, the point we were looking forward to was the after BBQ. So we feasted on not only our home made burgers, but the full Japanese BBQ experience as well-small beef cuts, chicken, prawns, cabbage, egg plant, mushrooms, onions, etc, all thrown on the grill.
After going home and getting in a nap, we got ready to go to Tokushima city for Ingrid's Birthday party. Ingrid is a kareoke bar owner in the city, and is a favourite of the foreign (and some Japanese) people here. She organizes a lot of parties for all of us, including a great Halloween party last October.She also is amazing at remembering everyone's names, and takes an active interest in us. She's pretty much the Queen of Tokushima, and we went to celebrate her. It also gave us a good excuse to dress up, which we don't often get!
This morning we went to a Bangladesh cooking class. The teacher was a student at the local Techinical College who is from Bangladesh, and we had an amazing chicken currey and a mutton rice dish. It was wonderful, although all the instructions and recipies were in Japanese, so I didn't get the recipe to make at home. Too bad.
Now we are having some nice down time, (lazy sunday). Because it is the rainy season, it's been pouring the last few days, and it's a curl up and take a nap sort of afternoon. Conviently, rainy season is only in June, and the beaches officially open July 1st. And then.. Typhoon season! Yay!
On another note, we've been having some issues with the header image. It shows up great at home, but not so much at our school's computers. Please leave me a comment and let me know if it shows up-always-sometimes-never for you. (if you never get it, it is a picture of hills and terraced rice fields).
(edit: the top picture should work now, but it seems we can only get 1 picture to work.. and now the bottom one doesn`t)
Cheers, and have a good weekend.
4 comments:
nope, sorry I have never seen the pic on your blog :(
So good to hear about your adventures you guys, miss you!
Jen
sometimes I get the image, and sometimes I don't. Didn't today.
Did you cut your hair really short, or is it just up?
Can't wait to see you in about a month!
Beth
Ya, I got my hair cut short, and it`s kinda up. I don`t like the cut-It`s very round and makes my face look round. I`m looking forward to my favourite hair dresser again, Laurie.
Yes, can`t wait to see you! Only 5 more weeks!
We got the picture today. I think it's on and off. So when is your exam, Ben? Yeah! only a few weeks left. Can you remind us when exactly you arrive and the flight numbers.
You guys look so great at Ingrid's party. It would be fun to see a picture of her too. Will you see her again?
Thanks for the BD greeting. I'll get to the blog soon. It's just been a busy time.
Mom
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