Long Saturday ~Part 2~

Okay, we left off when we finished our glorious lunch with my batchmates. Afterwhich, it was time for my Nihongo class. Well actually I still had an hour to burn, and since I wasn't able to attend a couple of my previous classes I decided to use that time to catch up on my Nihongo. Good thing Kubo~sensei was there to give me the handouts and the kanji lessons I've missed.

The class was really fun (and kinda difficult), so I feel kinda sad that I'll be leaving everyone soon. I announced to the class that I might not be able to be their classmate anymore by midterms. It was a bit surprising that they were all smiles and they were even excited for me when I told them about the Japan job. They gave a lot of tips and other things to watch out for in Japan, and sensei even shared on how to take a bath, Japanese style~ Who knew entering a bathtub required so much rituals?

All the Japan talk and the excitement that tagged along with it kinda gave me a craving for something Japanese. So I suggested to my friend (more about my friends in some other post) that we go and try to eat at a Japanese restaurant I visited with sensei and my classmates before. So after my class, we got out and decided to walk all the way there, which in turn brought us to a Japanese grocery store. It was a bit out of the way but everything were just for $1.50 each, so we went inside and gawked at the weirdo items stocked on the shelves. It was kinda hard to pick between the black chunky stuff and a brown wobbly thing, so we settled on a cup of chocolate pudding and a pack of meat dumplings (uncooked).

Satisfied with our pickings, we went on our way to the Jap restaurant, it was just behind the grocery so we didn't have to walk far. It was a bit hard to locate it, considering that I only visited it once almost a year ago. Good thing the windows were big enough for me to peer inside and recognize the place.

It was so Japanese! Each booth were screened by lacquer-like grills, there were Jap newspapers, magazines and mangas (comics) available for reading if you can read it anyway. Even the girls who served the food were wearing short shorts and aprons~ And the TV was showing Japanese shows! And of course, the menu and anything that was written there were full of kanjis. We had a blast trying to read them for about a couple of minutes or so, then we turned our attention to the food.

We ordered something called the Hanchan Set. It was a meal of vegetable fried rice, gyoza (meat dumplings, cooked), a platter of mixed vegetables with mushrooms, a huge bowl of ramen, and a bottomless glass of tea that tastes like coffee and looks like beer. The tea was revolutionary! Actually I had it before when we ate here last year, but it tasted like smoke back then... hmm.

Unfortunately, we weren't able to digest it all and we got depressed; thinking of all the starving children our leftovers would've fed (it was a really morbid thought, probably caused by a slight indigestion). We were supposed to eat our pudding for dessert, but considering that we can't even sip our coffee tea, we put the pudding off till later. And then we went home.

Hmm, I feel like this entry has gone on for too long. To make it short, I'll just summarize the rest of the day in a paragraph: After the belly-busting feast, we dropped by the local mall to rent a VCD and a DVD ('Step Up' and 'Hairspray' respectively). After getting back home, we watched 'Step Up' and danced along with it, mostly because we want to burn off the fat that the glutton-fest gave us. Although we ate the choco pudding while watching the movie... meh.

Then I went to sleep.

So much for just one day ne? I thought so too~ ^__^