Friday 19th January
Been out for dinner twice this week - the first time was with a teacher from my special school (Mami San) and the second was with the office lady at my main school (Maruyama San). Mami San is my age and speaks very good English so it was nice to have some chat and a few drinks. We went to Sabo on Wednesday night in Iiyama for a random mix of Japanese and Western food, served with chilled red wine!
Maruyama San is in her 40s and hardly speaks any English - it took me about 30 minutes to work out that she was actually asking me to go for dinner with her! She picked me up and took me to meet another Japanese teacher (also very little English) at a Japanese restaurant I had never been to before. We ordered set meals and needless to say it involved a LOT of raw fish and random egg mousse cups! There was also some tempura too, which I do like, a boiled giant raddish, fried rice, smoked salmon salad and Nozawaonsen pickles. All washed down with some Japanese green tea.
Even though I wasn't hungry afterwards, I was dying for a bowl of spaghetti bolognase!
I am off to Hakuba again this weekend to hit the slopes, so it will be an early start both days to make the most of my lift passes. We are also all booked in to attend a reggae night called Snowsplash which should be interesting!
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