25 Cups of Tea Later...

I am addicted to tea. Well, Lynnette and I are both addicted to green tea. This past weekend, I trained to Chichibu in Saitama to visit her. Lynnette is the only person from home that I know in Japan. She is also a JET. Actually, she was the one who convinced me to apply to the JET Program in the first place. It's really cool that we're now in Japan together b/c we've always talked about what it would be like to live in Japan while we were still in San Diego. It's really nice to have someone from home here. However, we still don't feel as though we're actually living in Japan. Strange.

All we did this weekend was walk, talk, shop, drink tea, eat, eat, and eat some more. Okay, maybe we had to drink all that tea b/c we needed to digest all the food we ate. It's really sickening how we felt a need to eat everything we bought...just b/c we did. We encourage each other to eat more and more. That's what friends are for. I've noticed that my blog is mainly composed of entries on overeating. Sad. Anyway, at least we walked...we walked a lot while I was there.

Chichibu is a beautiful city...much more so than Ota. But no complaints here...as I love my city and my peeps. Anyway, Chichibu is surrounded by mountains and b/c of the recent weather change, you can see the fog covering the mountains just a bit...so beautiful. Mona, Lisa...it's like Sedona but w/ green mountains instead of red rocks.

We stayed in Lynnette's apt most of the time. It sounds sad but it was exactly what I needed...a relaxing weekend to just chill and talk. I am so proud of us; we didn't turn on the t.v. once and we even cooked! It was very oishii as well. I ended up spending more $ than expected b/c we went shopping...who knew that going to Chichibu would be like a mini trip to Tokyo? Anyway, I'm happy with my purchases. Thanks, Lynnette, for a fun fun weekend! Next time you'll have to come to Ota!

Thought of the day:

Well, a couple of thoughts...

1) I think they've managed to fire our favorite waitress at Ninnikuya (where we get our yummy brick toast) and also kill off the hot Starbucks guy. We went to AEON on Friday (that was my 3rd time this past week) and we didn't see our fav waitress nor the Starbucks guy. Very sad. Starbucks and Ninnikuya will not be the same w/o them...

2) While I was in Chichibu, Lynnette and I read Kokology...a book that gives random scenarios and according to your answers, it reveals hidden attitudes/feelings on different matters. On one of the answers I gave, this is a part of the analysis that I got, "Because you don't make a fuss over things, it sometimes seems that you fade into the background. But like air, you go unnoticed only until you're not around."