So I've had a wonderful vacation the week of the 8th! On Friday April 13, 2012 I went to a Japanese Restaurant named Kampai owned by my very own country contact, Mr. Richard Matsushima. One of the other exchange students who is going to Japan, named David, set the whole thing up! THANK YOU! I tried sushi for the first time there, it was not bad! I didn't know what kind of sushi to try first so one of the inbound exchange students from Japan gave me a piece of sushi and told me it was octopus. I was excited because I've had octopus before when I went to Montreal and I liked it! I learned that, that piece of sushi was really chewy and you aren't supposed to cut your food! So you just stuff it in your mouth! I had a ton of awesome and yummy food! I learned for breakfast people in Japan usually eat Miso soup, fish, and rice! Heavy Breakfast!!
Miso soup
Picture taken by inbound exchange student Alice Shimomura
I didn't take any pictures and there are no pictures of the sushi or rice but I will add some other pictures of food we ate!
Fried dumplings and dumplings :) YUMMY!!
Tempura, it was good and they had I think it was "fried" vegetables! it was good.
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Okay this was AMAZING!!! It was a beef roll with soy sauce and more!
This is called sukiyaki, it had noodles that were AWESOME!!
These are cold noodles that you dip in cold sauce, that was hard to get used to!
I'm not sure what this was but it was a type of soup and I don't remember what it tasted like but I think the pinkish things were possibly fish!
This is Matcha ice cream which I think is like green tea ice cream!
Thanks to my friend Alice who let me take these pictures off her blog and use them!
Here is one last picture from Alice and it is of From Left to right
Mr. Matsushima, Izzy, Aimee(my sis), Me, Alice (from Japan), and David!
THANK YOU to Mr. Matsushima for the lovely dinner!
I also got to talk to my host sister that I stayed with for the Albany trip! It was so good to talk to her! :)
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Now for the More part in my title
NEWS!!!
So During the dinner Mr. Matsushima told us where he sent our applications! I found out my application was sent to the district named Hyogo Prefecture! Which if you don't know where that is, it is on the mainland in the south! Exactly where I wanted to go, but of course I have not received the guarantee form which means they have found homes and a school for me! I will just half to wait!
Today I had another exciting surprise! I got an email from my travel agent! She was emailing me about my VISA, where I will most likely to be flying from and into, and about the possible time I could be leaving!
Okay so to fill in the "blanks" and this could all change before I leave so don't get set on this!
Fly out of: Albany
Fly into: Tokyo
Most likely will leave: August 18-20 which is the group flight!
I'm So excited!
Well I'll close for now. Sorry it was such a long post!
おやすみ、ありがとう、そして神ブレス,
(Thank you, Good night, and God Bless)
Sarah A. Cook <><
P.s.
Please do not forget to comment! :)
Miso soup
Picture taken by inbound exchange student Alice Shimomura
I didn't take any pictures and there are no pictures of the sushi or rice but I will add some other pictures of food we ate!
Fried dumplings and dumplings :) YUMMY!!
Tempura, it was good and they had I think it was "fried" vegetables! it was good.
\Okay this was AMAZING!!! It was a beef roll with soy sauce and more!
This is called sukiyaki, it had noodles that were AWESOME!!
These are cold noodles that you dip in cold sauce, that was hard to get used to!
I'm not sure what this was but it was a type of soup and I don't remember what it tasted like but I think the pinkish things were possibly fish!
This is Matcha ice cream which I think is like green tea ice cream!
Thanks to my friend Alice who let me take these pictures off her blog and use them!
Here is one last picture from Alice and it is of From Left to right
Mr. Matsushima, Izzy, Aimee(my sis), Me, Alice (from Japan), and David!
THANK YOU to Mr. Matsushima for the lovely dinner!
I also got to talk to my host sister that I stayed with for the Albany trip! It was so good to talk to her! :)
____________________________________________________________
Now for the More part in my title
NEWS!!!
So During the dinner Mr. Matsushima told us where he sent our applications! I found out my application was sent to the district named Hyogo Prefecture! Which if you don't know where that is, it is on the mainland in the south! Exactly where I wanted to go, but of course I have not received the guarantee form which means they have found homes and a school for me! I will just half to wait!
Today I had another exciting surprise! I got an email from my travel agent! She was emailing me about my VISA, where I will most likely to be flying from and into, and about the possible time I could be leaving!
Okay so to fill in the "blanks" and this could all change before I leave so don't get set on this!
Fly out of: Albany
Fly into: Tokyo
Most likely will leave: August 18-20 which is the group flight!
I'm So excited!
Well I'll close for now. Sorry it was such a long post!
おやすみ、ありがとう、そして神ブレス,
(Thank you, Good night, and God Bless)
Sarah A. Cook <><
P.s.
Please do not forget to comment! :)
