Week 74
Mission Log
Hello, everybody. How`s everything going? Things are still going really well here. I`m kind of getting used to everything in Japan and it`s all becoming normal now, so there aren`t really any strange experiences or weird foods to write about anymore. I`ve gotten used to sleeping on a futon (a thin mat that you lay on the floor to sleep on). It`s not soft like a mattress, but it`s still plenty comfortable. It`s especially good if the g\floor has tatami (a Japanese style floor woven from bamboo).
In Japan, they don`t do anything for Thanksgiving. I had actually forgotten that it was Thanksgiving until I got the emails last week. No one in Japan even knows when Thanksgiving is or what it is. I went around and taught a lot of people about Thanksgiving this last week. We didn`t do anything special for Thanksgiving either. But, at night I got a package from you and I was able to have a great Thanksgiving feast. It was wonderful. Thank you. The Jacket and the toothpaste are also much appreciated. Everything was good. It was pretty nice eating good American Thanksgiving foods. People don`t eat turkey here at all. Most people have never had turkey before in their life. They just eat rice and soy sauce all the time. I like Japanese food. It`s no longer weird or anything. It`s just normal food now. It doesn`t seem foreign to me at all. Myt companion however, can`t stand any of it. He just eats cereal and peanut butter sandwiches all day. I really like ramen (like Top Ramen but nicer) and gyoza (potstickers). What`s funny is that those are both really Chinese foods. When people ask my what Japanese foods I like, I never know what to say because all of the best Japanese foods are from China. If I say a food from China, then they`ll get unhappy and say "That`s not Japanese!" I pretty much like all of the foods here. The only food I don`t like is beans. That`s the same in the US or Japan.
Our apartment is on the tenth floor of our building. I`ve never lived so high up before. Because there aren`t really any tall buildings in Sennan, and our building`s on the top of a hill, I can pretty much see the whole area. I can even see Kobe across the water from my apartment building. We live a little bit East of Izumisunagawa station which is one train station North from Izumitottori where the church is. We had to ride the train back from the church one time. I like riding trains. They`re pretty convenient, but cars were still much nicer. I`ve going to let you go now. I`ll talk to you all again next week. Love you. Bye.
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