No Slurpees in Japan??!!

I never thought I’d be the type to grocery shop at 7-11, but that’s what it comes to in Atsumi. The fact is that they have competitive prices for bread (which is all I eat since I’m from America), cereal, and juice for all my breakfast needs. No slurpees, though, not in Japan. Instead there is this wonderfully smelling stuff called “oden” which they sell in the fall and winter. It is stuff like boiled eggs, tofu, and weird stuff that I can’t tell what it is and it smells like feet (not my feet, though). I’m sure if you wanted to you could buy some, put it in your blender with some ice and have an oden slurpee! “Let’s drinking oden slurpee!”

Be Careful not to Catch a Cold!

This week, unfortunately, I caught a cold, despite the fact that every single one of my co-works and all my friends warned me not to catch one. I guess I just wasn’t being careful enough. Colds must be a serious disease here cuz everyone seems to be scared to death for me. I’m getting medicine thrown at me and offers to take me to the doctor. It’s nice to know they care. I just try to drink a lot of juice and am sucking on a lot of what they call ‘throat candy’ which I hope means ‘cough drop’. (I actually bought orange juice, Mom! Can u believe it? But 7-11 orange juice is no good.)