Coffee

So now I drink coffee. There is not much more to say about it. My host family drinks coffee every morning for breakfast and I have joined them. When the students are out and about, we also tend to hit up a coffee shop at least 2 times a week. It is a great way to chill and talk about life.

Today was a pretty chill day. I spent the morning reading Genji and studying some Japanese. I did not realize that my family had gone out around noon, so I ended up not eating lunch. Around 4 pm I met up with Shoko at her apartment. This time around we went off to Ueno for food. I was absolutely starving. We hit up a 回転寿司 (kaiten-zushi) place and stuffed our faces. I had 5 plates at 100 yen a pop. It was a really cheap and delicious meal. Afterwards we went to a Starbucks where I consumed a white-chocolate mocha. I was immediately made fun of for not drinking coffee black. What can I say? Sweet drinks are the best. I have become used to drinking black coffee at home, but it is still not my drink of choice. Shoko and I ended up talking a lot about the general life in Japan. She is thinking of quitting her job because the work is too hard. She also made me realize that I do not want to work while in Japan. I worked all summer to experience this and to have $$. Now that I am here there is no reason to spend all my time teaching English or something along those lines.

I found out that Ueno is a really cool place. I was told that it used to be the black market of Japan, and still kind of is. Everything there was fairly cheap. There were many vendors trying to sell off the rest of the food they had for the day. The prices on day old fish were insanely cheap. There were also many new and used clothes stores which had some pretty good designs. If I ever need to do some clothes shopping, Ueno is where I would to it. Sadly I did not get any good pictures because it was too dark out...