I never shared the memoir piece I wrote for my Food & Writing class last quarter! Hope you enjoy.
I Surrender
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Category Archives: Japan
Muffins…
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I just had to share this silly caffeinated owl chart because it just cracked me up so much! Half-caf and double espresso are my favorite.
So what kind of coffee drinker are you? I’m double espresso all the way!
Self Worth
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Just pretend that this one and yesterday’s were switched. Victor Hugo is the author of Les Miserables.
Kintsukuroi
Be a Cat
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Sorry I saw this cute image and just had to share it! Wouldn't we all be better off as cats? Seriously, number 5 is where it's at. They DO look like beans!
Nihon no Tabemono
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Thursdays always feel like my longest day. I get up early and go to school then by lunch I’m home saying hi to Chase and then I’m off to the food bank to stock shelves for two hours. Once that’s over I generally come home and pick up Chase and we go out and do something fun. By the end of the day I’m always shocked that it is still Thursday! And then I freak out that I didn’t fit in a workout. -_- So sometimes I just need to remind myself to relax. It’s my “Friday” night.
I think I’m going to move my rest days to Thursdays for this exact reason.
Cultural Perspectives on Food Midterm–Japan
Here’s the midterm paper I did for my Cultural Perspectives on Food class on Japan. I warn you it is not a literary piece of art. I did not even try to connect paragraphs really. I just answered the questions as best I could and put them in essay form. >.< I wasn’t graded on that at all so I didn’t bother putting the time into it. =/ Just warning you.
I did love doing this project though.
Demon
JIP:
We were shown around a few museums but not always given any history on what we saw. These are some ancient arrows used by samurais. That’s honestly all I can tell you!
Sunning
This time last year I wrote a series of posts that reflected on my life changing 3 month Japan internship. It really did a lot of good for me emotionally (I stopped having nightmares!) and really helped me come to terms with what an important experience this was. I don’t feel like I have more I want to say about it but in honor of it being two years since I took that fateful flight oversees I am going to have a Japanese Internship Photo (JIP) every day until September. There are a heck of a lot of photos I’ve never showed anyone! They will be completely random; I seriously just closed my eyes and clicked. So here we go!
JIP:
My roommate Kayla in her yukata at Obon, proudly displaying her festival fare of yakisoba! (Note awesome Hello Kitty balloon.)
I hope you all enjoy this as much as I know I will and please feel free to re-read (or read for the first time!) my posts from last year. I really enjoy reliving them.
Japan Internship- A Year Later
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III- Food
- Part IV- Children
- Part V- Habits
- Part VI- Holidays
- Part VII- Tourists
- Part VIII- Tokyo
- Final Thoughts
And now on to the food!
Leaving the Nest
Phew! Today was a really big day. I mean, we actually left the house for like 5 hours! 
Shocking I know.
Again I got up early to try and chat with my best friend, but alas she was a no show (turns out her alarm was not set!) so I decided to just eat breakfast and get on with my day. Today I felt like something easy and refreshing so I went with cereal. 1/2 cup Kashi Golean Crunch, 1/2 cup Annie’s Chocolate & Vanilla Bunnies, ground flax, blueberries, and dried cherries. All enjoyed with skim milk, of course. ^_^ Yum yum yum.
