On Japanese food and other stuff

Japanese food is very interesting. It seems to be a bit hit or miss. For example, the milk here is incredible as is most of the candy, meat and crackers. But then there are some wierd soggy crackers that worry me.

But what I really want to talk about is the salad dressing. Specifically the roasted sesame salad dressing. You know that amazing dressing that some Japanese restaurants have in the states that you wished they put MORE of on the salad and when you finished the salad you were all, damn, I finished it? That's this dressing. And like many Japanese candies, it's apparently filled with CRACK. Because seriously, I can't stop eating it. Even more than usual, I look for an excuse to eat salad. BRAD looks for any excuse to eat salad. This stuff is ADDICTING. And delicious. And AWESOME. Also, the "M&M's" here are very much like the British Smarties, only the candy on the outside is sweet. YUM!

Japanese Television is pretty interesting too. Part of me was surprised that there isn't a channel that plays anime all the time, but then I realized that we had to pay for that channel. Ah well, at least I caught Laputa on TV and Detective Conan. And Fairy Tail. And Brad saw Bleach the other day. There was this one ad though that sticks with me...

It's a Christmas ad. And there's a cat and a duck on the roof of a house. And they dance, then they slip! And fall off into the snow. And then out of the snow pops…

A cat duck. (nekoda-ku!)

Yes.

Apparently it's an aflack ad.

Ah yes, we watched the news and there was this bit where some guy was apologizing about pensions failing or something. The News reporter said: Nihon Kokuu. Now, for those of you who don't speak Japanese, Nihon is Japan and Koku is country. (not Kokuu, keep in mind). So Brad and I, hearing "Kokuu" think "The country of Japan?? The ...pensions are failing? Why us the head of a company telling us that?" Then we realized, oh KOKUU...AIRLINE company. JAL is losing pensions. Oh Japan and its similar sounding words. Like, shinju and shinjuu. One is pearl, the other is double suicide. Whoops!

But yeah. So things are going well, classes are getting better. I hope they keep going well!