3 day weekend

Its the weekend! whooohooo! and a 3 day weekend at that! i have lots of things to do! tomorrow i will clean, run some errands, talk to chuckers. sunday i am going to nara! i'm really looking forward to it! apparently there is a really really really large buddha. and a lot of deer.

its really funny when my students try to see if i speak or understand japanese. i try to play dumb, but sometimes they don't believe me. today i asked " do you know warabi mochi?" and they all screamed "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH -insert japanese here-Ahhhhhhhh jen speak japanese????" i tried to explain that there is no word in english for warabi mochi. but you can try to explain so much with a bunch of 3rd graders.

just in case you dont know,Warabimochi (Japanese: 蕨餅) is not true mochi but a jelly-like confection made from bracken starch and covered or dipped in kinako (sweet toasted soybean flour). It is popular in the summertime, and often sold from trucks, not unlike ice cream trucks in Western countries.



i really like it.