first up, friday night gets bowling in Kagamiishi, where i pretty much bowled how i always bowl, sporadically and inconsistently. I started out with a couple of spares and a strike.. then followed the strike with a pair of gutter balls =p They also had this prize ticket dealie where u grab like a lil piece of paper, which has a number of points on it, and you use those points to purchase items such as cleaning sponges and washing detergent.. weird. we decided to use our points to purchase candy =) The night finished up at an izakaya.. so i don't remember much of the rest...
Saturday we headed to the Koriyama 郡山 international citizens festival. we slaved away at this stall which featured gaijin themed face painting, such as Australian flags and maple leaves. but later digressed into normal j-cutseyness, such as akabekos and halloween pumpkins and Doraemon and a spongebob squarepants which took me like hours. The rest of the festival was pretty fun too.. although i made myself sick by putting way way too much mustard on a serve of sauce katsudon. usually things in japan aren't spicy really.. so i apply liberally.. but this was some serious mustard.. and in hindsight i probably should've stopped eating earlier....
Sunday was toiling in the fields of Taishin. We had to harvest the rice to get us through the bitterly cold winters of Shirakawa. in the end about 9 of us harvested a field of maybe 10mx10m then went drinking whilst the machines harvested the rest =p and boy did u drink.. it was one of those japanese parties where some old man or old lady keep telling you to try this beer.. or this sake.. or this special shochu.. or all of the above. i was pretty wasted by about 2 in the afternoon.. would've been earlier if it wasn't for this awesome spread of j-lunch. unfortunately i didn't get a photo.. but there was some pretty spectacular dishes on offer...
next up i had to find my way to Koriyama to be Darrens wingman on his supposedly 7 vs 1 super date with the Sukagawa jgirls.. however it turned out to be 3 vs 3.. but thats still a good enough ratio. I arrived very late and only had time for the karaoke portion of the night.. but it was still fun. and i got to try out of my non-jouzu nihongo.
Monday! (yeh this weekend just keeps on going) the Sukagawa girls took us to the Urabandai five coloured lake viewing. I had no idea what this was before i arrived but it was pretty awesome. If for nothing other than seeing my first northern hemisphere Autumn.. complete with trees of brown freddy the leafs. But sadly we didn't get to see all five colours of this lake because some of the colours weren't there, noticeably the red lake.. which looked a rather ordinary green. I did get another sauce katsudon that day.. which made up for the last blergh.
:: vocabulary words ::
Kagamiishi = a nearby village just north of Yabuki
Darren = a JET from Yabuki, aka D aka Dazza aka The Dazzler
Sukagawa = a nearby city, apparently Shirakawa's arch-rival
Taishin = a nearby village which is technically part of Shirakawa now
Urabandai = another town in Fukushima
shochu = alcohol made from the dregs leftover from making sake
nihongo = the Japanese language
j-go = nihongo
jgirls = japanese girls
j
jouzu = skillful
non-jouzu = not skillfull
akabeko = the mascot of Fukushima
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