Today was one of the many holidays we have this semester and I spent it working on homework and working ahead a bit. Tomorrow I have Japanese class only cause Art History is canceled but we have a trip to a Museum on Wednesday which is another school holiday.
This is another great example of how the Japanese use English. "Eating food makes you beautiful! "Beauty" "Good Health" "Beautiful Shape" etc... Depending on what you wish, choose the special dish from the menu, which has the specialty for different purposes.
For dinner today my host mom made Gyoza, another dumpling that reminds me of dim sum, soup, and some vegetables. As usual it was fantastic.
I met up with the girl from Midtown, Miho at 8:00. We met up at the station and headed to the beach. She had a bag that had some Maccha flavored cookies and other snacks that she said she "wanted to eat with me". Maccha is a green tea flavor. So we walked along the beach, looked at the statue of liberty and headed to the Giant Ferris Wheel. It's funny cause on the Ferris Wheel they have signs saying that you are entering the "Shinmitsu Zone" Shinmitsu means intimate, familiar, or friendly. There were signs in the Ferris wheel measuring distances between where people would sit. I wasn't really focused on translating it but I know a couple of them said Shinmitsu Zone as well. Pretty funny stuff. The Ferris wheel takes about 16 minutes to go all the way around. It's huge. During the ride Miho brought out some Maccha flavored cookies for us to enjoy.
After that ride we headed to the nearby game center where we played Taiko Drum Master, and a Game where you throw balls at targets on the screen, which is always fun. From there we headed to the "Purikura" which is a super crazy photo booth. The booths are sometimes large enough for 5 people. There is usually a section in every arcade that is just these booths. Some arcades have signs posted telling people that if you are a guy without a girl or you can't go to the Purikura floor because guys would go there just to try and pick up girls.
After you put the cash you can select different setting or backgrounds on a touch screen in the booth and it will go through a series of about 10 pictures or so. After the pictures are taken you select 4 or 6 of your favorite of the ones taken.
From there you go outside the booth to another part of the booth where you can edit the picture. The other booth is smaller but features two screens with pens where you can add different graphics, Draw lines of hearts and write stuff.
After that we headed back to the beach were we talked on a bench for a while before I walked her back to the station and headed home.
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