Well, today was about finding not only the grocery store, but also edible groceries within. We actually found the store really easily, and it's nestled among a bunch of other groovy stores.
Firstly, we found a used manga, dvd, and cd store. Very awesome! We're talking about racks of manga for 105 yen. I found the Gackt section of the cd's, but they didn't have the one I wanted, le sigh. I bought one manga by You Higuri, because it's super beautiful and she's one of my favorite artists. It was volume one, and they didn't have any others. I hope I'll be able to find the rest.
After that we went to the 100 yen store, which is basically like the Dollar Store. We got the correctly colored garbage bags so we can sort our trash the way we're supposed to. They also had plates, paper, all sorts of stuff that it's good to know where we can get. Then on to Feel Super Market. First off...man! Grapes are expensive here, like 600 yen a bunch! And an apple costs 100 yen. I can't imagine paying that in the states. Secondly...it's hard to know what things are. :) And then thirdly...some things I just can't see as food items. I love calimari as much as the next person, but the huge purple coiled tentacle with the suckers glaring at me menacingly...pretty, yes. Food? No. We ended up with chicken, tofu, noodles, spaghetti, soy sauce, garlic, margerine, toilet paper, ramen (we pray its chicken), chicken boullion, crab meat...um...a bottle of orange Qoo (which tastes like watered down Sunny Delight) and a cabbage and carrot mix to fry up. Pretty yummy, really!
After shopping, we went to one of the little 100 yen booths for lunch. I got a lo mein like box of noodles and veggies, and it was excellent. I even successfully ate it with chopsticks. :) It seems that everything here is a little sweet and a little pickly. All in all, it was a successful day. Tomorrow training starts...so we'll jump that new hurdle when we get there. :)
Posted by Mandy at September 26, 2004 10:35 PMMandy I read everything very interesting I like it so we can all learn how you live.
Love and hugs Oma
mmmmm.... watered down sunny d... i think i love that stuff already!
Posted by: Becky at September 27, 2004 09:32 AMHi little sis :)
Glad it's going good. By the way thanks for the rice crispy treats, I finally finished them last night. I guess I'll have to wait quite a while before you make any more. Well take care and have fun. I got to get to bed, I have a job interview tmrw. See Ya