Summer Adventures: Cooking with K

K invited me over to teach me to cook a salad she had made on one of our previous adventures.

私はKの家に日本の料理教えに行った。前に食べた料理を教えた。

I didn’t take any photos of the salad, but we also attempted bear-onigiri (rice ball).

教えたの食べ物の写真を撮らなかったけど、この熊のおにぎりを作った。

K is really good at making cute food.

Kは可愛い食べ物作ること上手。

Here is K and I.

Kと私。

K is a really good Japanese cooking teacher.

Kはいい日本の料理の先生。

Saturday adventures

On Saturday, I joined my super adorable 1st graders for a noodle-catching game. It was fun, but a bit difficult because my food isn't usually moving when I try to pick it up. 

土曜日に小学校1年生とこれした。楽しかったけど、難しい。だいたい食べる時に私の食べ物を動かない。

In the evening, I decided to ride my bicycle to the lake and have dinner. 

夕方に自転車で湖に食べに行った。

This was the view on the way. 

行く中にこれ見た。

My friend's mom has a restaurant at the lake and her curry was delicious. 

友達のお母さんのレストランは湖である。カレーは美味しかった！

Vegetable curry, so colorful!

野菜カレーは色いっぱいあった。

This was the sky when I got close to home. 

帰る時にこの空を見えた。

Golden Week day 12 mobile

Mandie flew out today. She'll get home tomorrow afternoon (my time). 

今日マンディは帰った。 明日の昼に着く。(日本と時間に)。

Here's the last picture I took today of us eating a yummy lunch. 

これは私の最後撮った写真。

Here's my lunch.

私の昼食。

Here's Mandie's.

妹の。

I'll go home tomorrow afternoon.

明日の昼に帰る。

Photo Challenge Day 5

March 5: #widn (what I’m doing now)

What I’m doing now seems like a bit of a cheater topic . . . there were a lot of ‘now’s in my day and obviously now I’m blogging.

On Friday at the school snow festival, I met a bunch of people who are my age and all like snowboarding. We decided we should go boarding together, so that’s what I did this evening.

The top 3 pictures are from boarding. The big one is the group I was boarding with. The top right was the view from the ski hill. The middle is an obvious sign of getting more comfortable with all of this – I took my phone out and took a picture, on the lift!

The bottom 3 are from dinner after wards (at about 9 pm). The far left is potato & cheese mochi – yum! The middle is the girls I got to have dinner with (the one guy in our group had to leave before dinner). And the bottom right was dinner’s main course – Ochazuke.

Ochazuke is a bowl of rice with soup poured on top and topped with various toppings. This one had octopus, wasabi, nori and sesame seeds on top. Yum!

As for yesterday’s mystery picture, since no one was even close, I’m giving you all another day to figure out what it is before I reveal it.

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Even before snowboarding and dinner, it was a fun filled day. 

I got to teach the first and second year students at the JHS and the more comfortable with this job I get, the more fun both the students and I have. I also had an elementary visit with the school whose festival I went to on Friday. That was fun both because the kids are awesome and it meant a ride in the car with a JTE who also loves photography and has a super old all manual Nikon. We had fun chatting about cameras on our way to school. 

The afternoon brought taxes. I almost forgot the darn things this year. Filing US taxes when I don't have to pay them seems like such a waste of time and paper. I got the form 2555-ez finished. The hardest part of that was a minor shock when I realized how close I had come to being in the US for more than 36 days this year - I thought I was going to have to look at alternative beginning and end dates until I realized I had totally mis-calclulated the time I was at home before New Years. Tomorrow I'll do the 1040 and then they'll be off!