Grrr
I'm annoyed. I wrote a huge posting about the weekend (and it wasn't even called "The Weekend") and blogger crapped its pants and lost the lot on me.
So because I'm all bitter and twisted, you are going to get an abridged version of Grant's weekend.
Friday: straight after school I jumped in my car, met D in Kiryu and, after some organising of pants for him, we set off on our road trip to Nakagawa-machi. We stayed the night with our host family from last time, and then got up bright and early on Saturday.
Why?
Saturday: Rice harvesting. In May this year, I went to Nakagawa-machi (then known as Ogawa-machi, silly gappeis) and did taue (rice planting) so this time we got to cut the rice we planted. It was good fun, and we managed to find a few frogs, grasshoppers and even a praying mantis egg along the way.
Afterwards we painted pumpkins with shougakkou kids for Halloween (no carving this time - too many injuries last time apparently) and then made mochi, which are pounded rice cakes.
After that we went back to our host family's house for a bit before going to a Japanese Tea Ceremony. This was the second time for me to see the ceremony, but unlike last time, we sat in western chairs this time. I don't mind doing the Japanese pose, but chairs are never turned down when available. You can take the boy out of the Western Culture, but you can't take the Western Culture out of the boy...
We made tempura for dinner that night, then D and I left for home.
Why didn't we stay Saturday too?
Sunday: International Festival in Maebashi. It was awesome! We sold t-shirts, made S'mores, painted faces, sang, ate, were merry... A very good day was fully much enjoyed by attending people. We all went out for some shabu shabu afterwards (thin strips of meat dragged through boiling water then dipped in a variety of sauces) and I managed to get home around 9pm.
Anyway, that's the abridged version.
Festival pics to come later.
So because I'm all bitter and twisted, you are going to get an abridged version of Grant's weekend.
Friday: straight after school I jumped in my car, met D in Kiryu and, after some organising of pants for him, we set off on our road trip to Nakagawa-machi. We stayed the night with our host family from last time, and then got up bright and early on Saturday.
Why?
Saturday: Rice harvesting. In May this year, I went to Nakagawa-machi (then known as Ogawa-machi, silly gappeis) and did taue (rice planting) so this time we got to cut the rice we planted. It was good fun, and we managed to find a few frogs, grasshoppers and even a praying mantis egg along the way.
Afterwards we painted pumpkins with shougakkou kids for Halloween (no carving this time - too many injuries last time apparently) and then made mochi, which are pounded rice cakes.
After that we went back to our host family's house for a bit before going to a Japanese Tea Ceremony. This was the second time for me to see the ceremony, but unlike last time, we sat in western chairs this time. I don't mind doing the Japanese pose, but chairs are never turned down when available. You can take the boy out of the Western Culture, but you can't take the Western Culture out of the boy...
We made tempura for dinner that night, then D and I left for home.
Why didn't we stay Saturday too?
Sunday: International Festival in Maebashi. It was awesome! We sold t-shirts, made S'mores, painted faces, sang, ate, were merry... A very good day was fully much enjoyed by attending people. We all went out for some shabu shabu afterwards (thin strips of meat dragged through boiling water then dipped in a variety of sauces) and I managed to get home around 9pm.
Anyway, that's the abridged version.
Festival pics to come later.
posted by GrantPGranthm | 9:10 am
4 Comments:
Those are some hot-as worker pants! Maybe you have a future in the Japanese construction industry post-JET! Eh? Eh???
NO. Those pants are NOT hot. Please throw them in the cupboard with the beanie, trackies n thongs combo...u know what im talkin about boy.
Couldn't agree more Loz. And Grant-boy, if you had those two toe thong things on as well you need a spank.
No... I wasn't wearing those tabi (two toed shoes).... no....
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