Last Night

Unfortunately, we're losing Reiji to the army. He's an army captain (a joke that Hire loves to play off of) and has to return to duty after this week is over. As Japan isn't really in too much of a need of an army right now, he'll still be able to visit every once in a while but he's moving to Sendai and is engaged to be married (as of last week).

Here are some pictures from our goodbye dinner festivities.


I particularly like Shu-he's face in the back with the chopsticks which I found out were called waribashi. The dictionary came in handy last night when we were trying to translate odd words... like urn, grain wine, etc.

Oh and to add to the list of odd food that I've eaten, pretty much throw on any part of a chicken you can think of... and I've eaten it. Okay maybe not all. But chicken liver, chicken stomach, chicken breast (thank goodness that one was normal), chicken etc etc etc. There was a yakatori plate with every part of the chicken. I think that's how they get by without having too much meat... by eating every part that they do have. And if I would have imagined what liver tastes like... that's what it tasted like. I must say it wasn't too pleasant on my palette. Much like a dry fleshy paste. Yum.



But we had fun, they treated me again. (B/c I was a student... they wouldn't even let me pay when I said it's technically my school paying for it. *sigh*). And as Japanese gatherings go, it went late into the night and it was 11 by the time I arrived at home. Oh and the train stopped partway... much like the bus did before, though I had an inkling it might because there was a kanji for UP added to the blinking message on the train (when it normally just carries the name). No worries though, I wasn't far from home so I just walked. :)