11.11.2013

well, so much for showing you all my photos from travelling with Liam...

since my last post I moved back to NS for the summer, did lots of aikido, worked at a bakery, staffed at NBTSC and then moved to Bermuda. phew.

I actually just started a new blog which can be found here: http://www.signeconstable.blogspot.com

I realised I needed a clean slate for blogging, and this site was just too jumbled for me to deal with on the regs. Maybe one day I will organise these posts better, but for now I shall just leave you behind, dear blog.

please go follow my newest blogging adventure, I've got decent plans for it!

here's Liam and I on the Yokohama waterfront as a little gift.

13.04.2013 - update!

hello all you lovely people,

I`m sorry I haven`t updated in a while, things have happened!

firstly, for the past week and a bit I`ve been traveling around part of Japan with Liam, ans for most of our trip we were wifi less, so you remained blogless.

we went to Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara all of which were amazing! I have heaps of photos, of course.

but my laptop`s been acting oddly and when we got back to Tokyo two days ago it gave up the ghost and refuses to turn on. It`s pretty new and i honestly think it`s fixable but since I`m going home in 2 weeks I`m just leaving it until I`m in a place where English is the official language.

Unfortunately for you, dear reader, that means no blogging until I`m back in NS on April 25th!

have a good day and a pleasant tomorrow
xo

25.11.2012 - osaka style lunch + sensōji temple.

Hello all, I had a lovely lovely day and took lots of photos and isn't this just special?

Started out by Skyping relatively briefly with mum & Magnus; my family's going to be here in less than 3 weeks and I am so excited good gracious.

Then I went and had a traditional Osaka style lunch with Keiko (I teach her English, Takashi (her husband), and Yuriko (their daughter) in Shinjuku. It was so interesting!
I can't say I fell in love with any of the food honestly, but it was all good. And like I said, it was terribly interesting. Aaaaand I can tick 'eat octopus' off my bucket list, so, booyah.

kind of like a quiche ball with octopus inside it.

vinegar based dipping sauce for the octopus.

soy sauce, vinegar, and some kind of hot sauce all mixed: for the gyoza.

Takashi cutting this thing that they said 'is like an osaka pizza', but I saw little connection there.

it was the best thing I had, though!

served with dried seaweed and smoked tuna flakes.

soba, of course. with cabbage, chicken, and pickled ginger.

sort of a tasteless pudding with brown sugar (which just tasted like molasses to me) sauce.

where we ate!

Went straight from there to Asakusa to go to Sensoji which is a very famous Buddhist temple.
There's also a temple dedicated to tanuki there which is like half the reason I went, but then I couldn't find it! Sneaky. I will do some research and go again because I will not leave Tokyo without going to it, I swear.
As you can see it was packed, but it was so worth going. Had a bit of a spiritual moment with all the incense and the people praying and tossing coins into various offering things and it was so good.

tokyo skytree

After that I walked around the area for a while, got a few little presents and just enjoyed looking about. I don't seem to wander as much as I did when I first got here, I suppose that's natural since Tokyo's less… new and thrilling now.

The arcade leading to Sensoji.

grilled squid

Took a slightly complicated train journey to Minato so I could go to Nissin for a few western food stuffs, came back, made some chilli for dinner and then skyped with Liam for a while.

We talked about exciting plans and it was just generally a really nice way to end my really nice day.

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I hope you all have a good day and a pleasant tomorrow!