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My body is not used to walking around so much, even though it’s really fun and good for you. So my body is aching pretty badly in some areas, like shoulders, ankles, and knees. But it’s hurting less as each day passes so that’s awesome. So a few days ago we had a typhoon advisory but it passed over Kyushu Island. My tutors helped me finish some paper work and then there was an orientation at school.

Blah blah.. and then we took a Japanese placement test but yea I won’t go into details on my pitiful score, nonetheless I shall be taking Japanese level 2.

Oh oh! The other day I missed the train! Bah, I got to the ticket counter only to realize I didn’t have change to buy the ticket so I had to go buy some delicious smelling pastries to break my 10,000Yen, but by that time the train had already left, luckily there was one 20 minutes later.

Speaking of Japanese pastries… holy jizz cakes they are DELICIOUS. They smell sooooo good and taste exactly how they smell, like a slice of heaven. I’m going to have to hold my noise while passing by bakery stores or else I’ll go broke. Food is great here; the school cafeteria has nice homemade stuff.

The 100 Yen shop is all you will ever need, so I’ve bought most if not all of my supplies there thus far. Folks back in America expect to get a crap load of 100 Yen nick-knacks! I love that store, they got really cute ceramics.

So I’m trying my best to live cheaply and I think it’ll be possible, but requires a lot of discipline because everything taste and smell so good. Walking by shops and restaurants you can smell the aroma of the food wafting out and it’s so damn irresistible. Let’s see… 5 kilos of rice cost me about $16, and instant ramen is about .95-$1, natto is less than $1 for a pack of 3, that’s pretty awesome

Now if you don’t know what natto is… I’ll post videos/pictures of it soon. It’s just fermented beans that are super super sticky. First time I had natto in America, I didn’t like it! The smell wasn’t bad, but the taste was so dull and plain. But I had natto the other day with really warm fresh rice and it tasted frickin oishii! I’ve had natto twice so far and I actually enjoy and prefer the taste of natto. My mom teased me about being able to force myself to eat natto because my first try of it almost made me gag. But really, if you have a chance give natto a try, and try again and again until you like it because it’s really good and healthy for you, and most importantly it’s cheap!

I made rice for the first time in my life yesterday! I’m so proud haha! Ate it with natto, and then for breakfast I ate it with eel! Yummy.
Fruit here is really expensive but they do taste really good and sweet. I bought a bundle of small bananas for about $2.10. Small bundle of grapes for about $2.89.

I’m actually excited and looking forward to cooking fish and meats! I’m having a lot of fun, it’s like playing house. Every day I think to myself.. what I will attempt to cook and I wonder how it will taste. Oh mayonnaise is great on everything, it taste sweeter than American mayonnaise.

I haven’t had time to check out the river yet, or upload pictures/video but I swear I’ll do it soon!It’s almost 8pm here, a group of us are about to head back out to the convenient store to snag the marked down pre-made lunch boxes. They mark down the price at night to sell it all because they want to sell everything fresh every day.