What's in my Fridge

One of my friends was saying she didn't know what to do when she went to a Japanese supermarket to buy food. I was a bit like that to start with, and I know a lot of foreign students deal with this problem by buying ready made meals from konbinis and just eating that. Which is actually not so bad here in Japan, because they're usually pretty balanced and good for you. But for me, this is impossible, because they're pretty meat heavy. Lots of chicken katsu. Although I do love the pre-packaged inari they sell at Max Value!

So here is what I bought for myself from the supermarket today:

• Tins of clementine, tomatoes and sweetcorn because I have nowhere else to put them!
• My bento box with some left over something in =/
• Bread, in the typical Japanese 6 piece packet
• Tofu, cut price salad box, margarine
• Garlic, tomato, beansprouts and spring onions

Chocolate on the top, vitamin jelly drinks in the middle and on the bottom green tea and pepsi (which is cheap in Japan! 150yen)

Yummy 0 calorie vitamin jelly drink. It's a bit weird to start with, but hopefully good for you. 88yen each!

My sad looking basil plant =[ 100yen

Instant ramen packets, 5 for 200yen. Tasty but evil. This one is apparently salt flavour? Tastes like vegetable stock to me.

 Also spaghetti, noodles and rice somewhere around, as well as my cute pink box in the kitchen with soya sauce, rice vinegar, salt, oregano, parsley, sesame seeds, sesame and olive oil...

Today my bike lock rusted closed and me and Ash and Sophie managed to bend one key into bits and break one off inside the lock =< I tried to open it with my 100yen store scissors, but failed. We asked one of the porters for help after some dithering and he cut it pretty easily with some big pliers! So my bike is free, and I still have another lock on it so no panic.

I still need to take a photo of it <3

Indian Food in Japan

Indian food in Japan is great!

Our tea ceremony and Murakami teacher took us to a restaurant today which was called Glory and it was really lovely. I had some dahl, pakoras and a naan bread and it was soo lovely. Also, it was pretty cheap. 850yen for the food in the photo. I'd like to go there again.

今日、日本語も書きます。。。

日本でインドの料理はおいしい！　

今日、私たちと私たちの茶道とむらかみはるきの先生はインドのレストランへ行った。お名前はグローリーです。私はダールカレとパコラとナーンを食べった。本当においしかった。そした、あまり安かった。写真で食べ物は８５０円だった。もう一度行きたい！

Weekend!

Friday yay! I've had 4 more classes already have a few different homeworks to do =< I have to try and answer the question: "What is tea?" in just a small pargraph. I have to learn the readings of a few more basic kanji for a test and also do a sheet of grammar questions. Also I have to study for the placement test on monday a little, because I don't want to make a fool out of myself!

I also got a present from my mum - a big tub  of chocolate raisins that Manago-san (the foreign student coordinator) kept for me in her fridge <3 It's in my fridge now and I'm just pacing myself so I don't eat them all at once =p

I've been very very tired the last couple of days. Yesterday I finish university classes at 12 and my friend Leila had hurt her foot so we went to take her to the first aid centre and then home with her foot bandaged. After we went to the canteen to eat but it turned out there was nothing at all there I could have except for plain rice and miso soup. Everything had meat, so I felt a bit miserable and sat with everyone while they ate. Then I went to Max Value my favourite shop and bought some tomatoes and spring onions. At home I made pasta <3<3 I was so happy. I might even do the same thing tonight in an hour or so.

Then I went to sleep at 4pm. I woke up at 11pm for maybe an hour and then went back to bed. =0 so I slept a LOT yesterday and I was still exchausted in the morning when I had to get up at 8. And then I slept again today when I came home after class at around 1, and only got up again at 5! Lazy =/ but I'm just so tired. I think the heat, the long journey and time difference, all the new things and stress and not very much food because it's hard to eat has got to me.

But I ate okay today =] I had some udon noodles in soup at the canteen that the staff assured me had no meat in but actually did have quite a lot that I had to pick out. This gave me a bit of a stomach ache because eating meat often does that =/ but it was okay. I ate the veggies and the noodles. And then I've eaten some orange juice and a tuna mayonaise onigiri.

Maybe lists of what I've eaten aren't that interesting - but I think it's important because it's just so hard to find the right things I feel super proud when I have something =p

This weekend I'm not sure of our plans. We want to go to the Izakaya I think tonight or tomorrow night, and at some point go to Tenjin because there is some sort of festival going on where we can get free food.