The Adventures of Jen: April 2010

We also went to an organic vegan cafe restaurant for lunch. It was pretty good. The layout of the restaurant was neat! I had this really interesting sugar with my coffee. Turns out it was beet sugar. I bought a bag and am looking forward to trying it!

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Okonomiyaki- Hiroshima style

Tonight rach and I went with the running shop people and friends to a wonderful okonomiyaki restaurant called lopez. It's run by a guatemalan man and his Japanese wife. It was so good that I ended up eating the entire thing!!!!

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The man sitting on the right is the running shop owner. Him and his wife were so nice and friendly! His wife could speak English really well and made us feel welcomed and included!

Yum!!!!!

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In Hiroshima

Rach and I left Nagoya wednesday night at 11pm to take a night bus to Hiroshima. We arrived at 7. Figured out how to leave the station. Woke up at a cafe with some coffee. Found our hotel and checked into find we have a huge room with a great bed and lots of space. We changed and headed out to peace park and area and saw a museum dedicated to the bombing. Then some cutes kids who study English came up to us and interviewed us to practice speaking with foreigners. It was cute. Then we wandered around for a bit and found a running store where they invited us to join them at a good okonomiyaki restaurant tomorrow! Then we had lunch at a good bakery. Came back to the hotel. I went to run on the treadmill for a bit and rach napped. The we read and relaxed for a bit. We went out again for dinner and ended up finding a decent Thai restaurant. Yummy!! Then wandered back to the hotel. I studied French and rach, Japanese. Now I'm getting sleepy so I might call it an early night and head to bed!

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A nice day for a bike ride!

Out biking with hiro

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encouraged

I just listened to a good sermon on itunes.

i made banana pancake balls with my takoyaki machine tonight.

today was a nice day. I didnt get to run as much as i had wanted, but the sun eventually came out....i was waiting with my running clothes on. i got in 3.5 miles.... hoping for no rain tomorrow to get in a good 7 miler. then I met the nozaos at starbucks. i really enjoy spending time with them. it makes me really happy to chat with them. they are my family here.

work was good. busy but good. ive been trying lots of new teaching strategies this year. learning, and sometimes failing, but learning all the same.

ive still been getting rid of 3 things a day. i can see a difference, but i doubt anyone else can. maybe in another few months. (i hope so!)

its almost my birthday!! yippee!

Friday

I like Friday. It's Friday! Finally. It's been a long week. Finished the first week of classes of the new svchool year. 51 weeks to go!

I've been studying French a lot! Everyday 30-60 min of listening plus reading practice. I should do some grammar review too.

Next Friday is my bday. I Am not so excited- usually I'm sooooo excited- and I don't know why. Maybe i'm getting old.

27. Wow! This is gonna be a really big year for me too!

Well time to work