ADVENTURE

seeing as i didn't have any class today, i designated it "go do something adventure-y like lucy always does." it was 大成功: big success~

after picking up our gaijin cards (YAY WE'RE OFFICIAL ALIENS), my okaasan dropped us off at asakadai station, and broguen and i walked down towards the kuromegawa river. okaasan kept telling us it wasn't anything special/pretty, but it was definitely more fun than she let on.

first was a picture stop for a cute shrine:


then we grabbed picnic materials at a grocery store and nommed them by the riverside (i had crab cream korokke [i know, broguen was a little weirded out by the name too~ hahaha], veggies, and delish chocolate covered macadamia nuts; broguen had tsukemono and tempura):


then we took artsy pictures and waded in the river:








after a few hours of chilling we headed back to shiki, where we watched taiyaki being made, and chatted with an old lady who was highly amused by our love of anko, seeing as she hated it. "あなた達は変な外人、私は変な日本人ですよねー" "you are weird foreigners [because you like anko], but i am a weird japanese person [because i don't]."


and finally, after a fabulous day at the river looking for pottery, taking pictures, and being stared at by nihonjin, i headed home. BUT. on my way back, two women walking towards me suddenly freaked out: one had dropped a contact, so we all got on our hands and knees to look for it (the people on bikes trying to get by were not too pleased). we eventually found it (YAY), and コンタクトさん proceeded to thank me profusely (like, hand grabbing and bowing with tears in her eyes PROFUSELY. they were super sweet:D) while being very impressed by my japanese (more like amazed i could actually speak coherent sentences in such a TAIHEN DESU YO [difficult] situation~ haha).

and this has been my day of adventure~ next thursday i will hopefully (if i get all the forms in order) be off to nikko!