Hey everyone,
On Wednesday we had another day off and we decided to take my dad to Kappabashi Dori (ka-pa-ba-she door-ee). My dad really enjoyed it there because there was a lot of different cooking things to look at. We walked into soooooooooooooooo many different stores with knives, bowls, pots, pans and every other cooking implement under the sun. We bought a bamboo steamer (no it doesn't steam bamboo, mmmmm steamed bamboo) and a ceramic knife. A ceramic knife is a lot better than the ordinary steel knife because they never go blunt and it doesn't cross contaminate food (basically if you cut up a fish and wash it then cut up a potato the potato doesn't taste like the fish). Ceramic knives are also super sharp. They also add a metal thing in the knife when the make them so you can't sneak one past the metal detectors at airports. On Thursday we went out for morning tea with my mum's friend Sanae (San-eye). We went to the Yostuya (Yot-soo-ya) Atre (part of the train station) to a cafe/bakery called PAUL. I had a massive chocolate tartlet (I decided after that I'd never have a whole one by myself again). It was really yummy (and hard to cut into with a plastic fork). After we had morning tea we went upstairs in the Atre to get hair cut for my brother. That took for-ever. I had my iPod with me but it ran out of battery after a bit (which was super annoying cause I had nothing to do). After my brother got his hair cut we walked down to Yotsuya San-chome (san-cho-may).We walked in and out of shops. We found a video rental store but the selection was limited. On Friday we walked to a library. They had an English section. Mum got some cook books and some other books, my brother got the 3rd part of Lord of the Rings and I got a book that I thought was cool but it turned out to be BORING!! On Friday night there was a small earthquake. It was a bit scary cause the whole building started shaking. Up the top on the 6th floor (the floor we're on) had a lot of swing, that kind of made it worse.
Bye for now,
Chloe
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Tuesday
Hi everyone,
On Tuesday we went to Kichijoji (ki-chi-joe-gee). We were being shown around by one of my mum's friends Akiko (a-key-ko). Akiko grew up around that area and she showed us around. She took us to a really nice Thai restruant. I had fresh Thai spring rolls because I hate spicy food. They were really nice. After lunch me, my mum and my brother went paddle boating. It was really fun. We passed a little boy and his mum and he yelled hello to us (in japanese of course). I got to steer a couple times. The response was slow and I ran us into a tree. I guess I'm not a very good driver. After we finished with the paddle boats we had some ice-cream and we went shopping. I managed to spend 5 weeks allowence on a pair of boots. We walked around the back streets for a while. It was really cool.
That's the end of that post,
Chloe.
On Tuesday we went to Kichijoji (ki-chi-joe-gee). We were being shown around by one of my mum's friends Akiko (a-key-ko). Akiko grew up around that area and she showed us around. She took us to a really nice Thai restruant. I had fresh Thai spring rolls because I hate spicy food. They were really nice. After lunch me, my mum and my brother went paddle boating. It was really fun. We passed a little boy and his mum and he yelled hello to us (in japanese of course). I got to steer a couple times. The response was slow and I ran us into a tree. I guess I'm not a very good driver. After we finished with the paddle boats we had some ice-cream and we went shopping. I managed to spend 5 weeks allowence on a pair of boots. We walked around the back streets for a while. It was really cool.
That's the end of that post,
Chloe.
Monday, A day off for everyone
Hey everyone who bothers to read my blog,
On Monday my Dad had the day off so we went for a family walk around the Imperial Palace. The walk is 7km and takes as long as a walk 7km takes. The reason my dad had the day off was because there was a Sophia festival (Sophia is the name of the university we are staying at). We decided to get lunch there. I had Yaki Soba (ya-key So-ba) which is fried noodles. It was really delicious. I also had a banana coated in chocolate. that was super yum.
Sorry that's all I really had to say,
Byes,
Chloe.
On Monday my Dad had the day off so we went for a family walk around the Imperial Palace. The walk is 7km and takes as long as a walk 7km takes. The reason my dad had the day off was because there was a Sophia festival (Sophia is the name of the university we are staying at). We decided to get lunch there. I had Yaki Soba (ya-key So-ba) which is fried noodles. It was really delicious. I also had a banana coated in chocolate. that was super yum.
Sorry that's all I really had to say,
Byes,
Chloe.
Saturday and Sunday
Hey,
On Saturday we couldn't go out because there was a Typhoon (tie-foon). Well sort of a typhoon it wasn't a big one it just rained and rained and rained. I thought it would never end. Did you know that in the eye of the typhoon (the centre) there is virutally no wind, the rain is really light and the light is green? Hmm. Don't ask me why, I'll have to look it up and get back to you on that one. Dad was really desperate to watch the rugby match between the Wallabies and the All Blacks so he went out to find a pub that showed it. He came home disappointed because the closest pubs weren't showing the match. Mum started flicking though the channels (I wasn't happy I was trying to watch an episode if NCIS that I hadn't seen) and she found the rugby. Dad was sooooooo annoyed because he walked for one hour in the pouring rain and got soaked (poor Dad). On Sunday the skies cleared up which was good because we were going out for lunch with some of our old friends Mari and Nao (ma-ree and na-oh). They used to babysit me and my brother when we lived in Tsukuba (tsoo-koo-ba). They took us to a Katsu (cut-soo) place. Katsu is basically deep-fried pork. The name of the restruant we went to was called Kimukatsu. After we went to the Katsu place we went out for Japanese ice-cream. I had Nashi (na-she) sorbet and Macha (ma-cha). Nashi is a type of Japanese pear and Macha is green tea. The ice-cream was really nice. My mum had Kabocha (ka-bo-cha) flavored ice-cream. Kabocha is Japanese for... Pumkin. I tried a little bit of it, but I wouldn't say it was my favourite type of ice-cream.
Well, that's all for now,
Chloe.
On Saturday we couldn't go out because there was a Typhoon (tie-foon). Well sort of a typhoon it wasn't a big one it just rained and rained and rained. I thought it would never end. Did you know that in the eye of the typhoon (the centre) there is virutally no wind, the rain is really light and the light is green? Hmm. Don't ask me why, I'll have to look it up and get back to you on that one. Dad was really desperate to watch the rugby match between the Wallabies and the All Blacks so he went out to find a pub that showed it. He came home disappointed because the closest pubs weren't showing the match. Mum started flicking though the channels (I wasn't happy I was trying to watch an episode if NCIS that I hadn't seen) and she found the rugby. Dad was sooooooo annoyed because he walked for one hour in the pouring rain and got soaked (poor Dad). On Sunday the skies cleared up which was good because we were going out for lunch with some of our old friends Mari and Nao (ma-ree and na-oh). They used to babysit me and my brother when we lived in Tsukuba (tsoo-koo-ba). They took us to a Katsu (cut-soo) place. Katsu is basically deep-fried pork. The name of the restruant we went to was called Kimukatsu. After we went to the Katsu place we went out for Japanese ice-cream. I had Nashi (na-she) sorbet and Macha (ma-cha). Nashi is a type of Japanese pear and Macha is green tea. The ice-cream was really nice. My mum had Kabocha (ka-bo-cha) flavored ice-cream. Kabocha is Japanese for... Pumkin. I tried a little bit of it, but I wouldn't say it was my favourite type of ice-cream.
Well, that's all for now,
Chloe.
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Friday, November 5, 2010
Kappabashi Dori and Friday at a party
Hi everyone,
On Thursday me, my little brother and my mum went to Kappabashi dori (kap-a-ba-she dory) which is a street where you can buy all your kitchen and cooking needs. I saw some super expensive knives, like, really,really expensive almost 1000 dollarinoes (my HORRIBLE Ned Flanders inpersonation). On Friday we went to on of mum's friend's friend's house (an actual house, not an apartment) to a Halloween (they celebrate it over here) party. It was lucky that she and the other mum's spoke english. The kids at the party were all 8 years old and under so I didn't really interact with them. Most of the kids were girls. My poor brother though, at least later on in the party another boy came to play. At least my bro Ki made a new friend. His new friend Keishu (k-shoo) speaks perfect english which is also good. All the other mum's made lolly bags but we made sugar cookies with icing. Yum.
Well there's nothing else to report,
Chloe.
On Thursday me, my little brother and my mum went to Kappabashi dori (kap-a-ba-she dory) which is a street where you can buy all your kitchen and cooking needs. I saw some super expensive knives, like, really,really expensive almost 1000 dollarinoes (my HORRIBLE Ned Flanders inpersonation). On Friday we went to on of mum's friend's friend's house (an actual house, not an apartment) to a Halloween (they celebrate it over here) party. It was lucky that she and the other mum's spoke english. The kids at the party were all 8 years old and under so I didn't really interact with them. Most of the kids were girls. My poor brother though, at least later on in the party another boy came to play. At least my bro Ki made a new friend. His new friend Keishu (k-shoo) speaks perfect english which is also good. All the other mum's made lolly bags but we made sugar cookies with icing. Yum.
Well there's nothing else to report,
Chloe.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Wednesday night with a big drum
Hi everyone,
One Wednesday we had a stay at home and do school work day.We have a lot of those especially when it rains. On Wednesday night me and my family went to Tiako (thai-ko) drumming lessons. It was a beginners class and a free trail to see if we liked it or not. We caught the train there and I think I got a few odd looks (I don't think you usually see a 12-year-old girl riding a train in trackies and a hoodie). We got there half an hour early. We were escorted into a cafeteria type room and we had to sit there until the lesson. In the boring ol' room there was a vending machine that gave out hot dogs, burgers and other things like that. My mum said that must be a salmonella breeding ground (salmonella is what you get if you have some types of food poisoning). The lesson started at 7:30pm and we walked into one of the studios. Because we were the new ones in the class my dad had to write our names on the name tags in Nihongo (knee-ho-n-go, It's Japanese for, um, Japanese). After the instructor made sure that everyone was there he took us into another room where another on of the instructors conducted a stretching session. After that we went back to the studio and the instructor taught us some basic drum patterns then we put them all together. Everyone took turns on the drums and we did this rotation. After a while he introduced another pattern that they had to play on the other side of the drum. It was really fun. At about a quarter to 9 we went into the advanced class and watched them. They were doing the same rhythms as us but a gazillion (yes I know it's not a real number) times better than us. Our instructor joined in and he was hitting so hard that he broke 3 taiko drum sticks and that's hard to do. It was really loud, so loud in fact that it was shaking the room.
sayonara yon ima (sigh-yo-na-ra yo-n ee-ma)
(Goodbye 4 now)
Chloe
One Wednesday we had a stay at home and do school work day.We have a lot of those especially when it rains. On Wednesday night me and my family went to Tiako (thai-ko) drumming lessons. It was a beginners class and a free trail to see if we liked it or not. We caught the train there and I think I got a few odd looks (I don't think you usually see a 12-year-old girl riding a train in trackies and a hoodie). We got there half an hour early. We were escorted into a cafeteria type room and we had to sit there until the lesson. In the boring ol' room there was a vending machine that gave out hot dogs, burgers and other things like that. My mum said that must be a salmonella breeding ground (salmonella is what you get if you have some types of food poisoning). The lesson started at 7:30pm and we walked into one of the studios. Because we were the new ones in the class my dad had to write our names on the name tags in Nihongo (knee-ho-n-go, It's Japanese for, um, Japanese). After the instructor made sure that everyone was there he took us into another room where another on of the instructors conducted a stretching session. After that we went back to the studio and the instructor taught us some basic drum patterns then we put them all together. Everyone took turns on the drums and we did this rotation. After a while he introduced another pattern that they had to play on the other side of the drum. It was really fun. At about a quarter to 9 we went into the advanced class and watched them. They were doing the same rhythms as us but a gazillion (yes I know it's not a real number) times better than us. Our instructor joined in and he was hitting so hard that he broke 3 taiko drum sticks and that's hard to do. It was really loud, so loud in fact that it was shaking the room.
sayonara yon ima (sigh-yo-na-ra yo-n ee-ma)
(Goodbye 4 now)
Chloe
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday and Tuesday
Hi everyone,
Monday was stay at home and do homework day. Tuesday was more exciting because we went to Ueno (wayne-o) Zoo. When we were walking to the Zoo from Ueno station it really stunk because the ginko (gin-ko) fruit falling on the ground and if there not picked up of the ground they rot and stink. We were about 100 metres from the entrance of the zoo when we saw a street performer. He was doing diarblo (don't know how to spell it) tricks. It was really cool. He had MASSIVE shoes on, you like the ones that Sideshow Bob (from the Simpsons) wears except they were black. It was pretty cool. My brother said he wants to learn how to do it. We finally got into the zoo. The first animals we saw were birds that you can see around Japan. We saw a Japanese crane, it was so beautiful and graceful. After we saw the Japanese birds we had lunch. We walked around the zoo for a bit. We saw some kangaroos. Mum called out 'Skipy' and they all looked. It was really funny. My favourite part of the zoo was when we walked to 'Monkey Mountain'. They were all soooooo funny. It was really cute when we saw a baby monkey (don't know what it's called) hanging on to it's mother, then the mother got chased by another monkey. Once we saw all the animals we went home because it was really cold and it looked like it was going to rain.
Got to go,
Chloe
Monday was stay at home and do homework day. Tuesday was more exciting because we went to Ueno (wayne-o) Zoo. When we were walking to the Zoo from Ueno station it really stunk because the ginko (gin-ko) fruit falling on the ground and if there not picked up of the ground they rot and stink. We were about 100 metres from the entrance of the zoo when we saw a street performer. He was doing diarblo (don't know how to spell it) tricks. It was really cool. He had MASSIVE shoes on, you like the ones that Sideshow Bob (from the Simpsons) wears except they were black. It was pretty cool. My brother said he wants to learn how to do it. We finally got into the zoo. The first animals we saw were birds that you can see around Japan. We saw a Japanese crane, it was so beautiful and graceful. After we saw the Japanese birds we had lunch. We walked around the zoo for a bit. We saw some kangaroos. Mum called out 'Skipy' and they all looked. It was really funny. My favourite part of the zoo was when we walked to 'Monkey Mountain'. They were all soooooo funny. It was really cute when we saw a baby monkey (don't know what it's called) hanging on to it's mother, then the mother got chased by another monkey. Once we saw all the animals we went home because it was really cold and it looked like it was going to rain.
Got to go,
Chloe
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