The Olympics Fukushima Style
Two months in Japan and all I've said is that I don't do any work. The truth is I've done
a lot of things and to catch up now would entail to much work on my part. So I'll slowly
catch you all up when I have the time. So I'll just mention one REALLY exciting thing I've done
recently.
On the 30th of September Fukushima hosted the annual ( I'm guessing it is atleast) yakitori olympics!!!!!!!.
People from all over Japan come to cook various "meats on sticks" and charge somewhat ridiculous prices for them. Yes it was exciting as it sounds. Atleast the food was pretty good although I believe that it's impossible to screw up "meat on a stick." The best I had was some chicken from Aizu (the same place where the festival I went to that I haven't told you about was). From what I understand the meat they used was from the chickens ass. I had always considered myself a breast man but I can definetely say I'm now an ass man through and through.
And of course no yakitori festival would be complete without various stands dedicated to shitty Japanese beer and sake. One stand in particular caught our attention cause they were the only ones willing to give out free samples. So we stood there and drank their sake and chatted and displayed are foreignness and of all things they gave us all a copy of a DVD they had produced. I haven't watched it yet but I'm sure it has all kinds of interesting tidbits about the brewing of their sake through many generations. I was kinda baffled as to why they would hand out DVD's to a bunch of foreigners they just "stole" their booze but heh whatever.
Quickly we left the sake stand and ran as fast as we could to the center stage to watch the yakitori girls sing. No thats not my clever name for them. I'm not that impressive. That was the name of their actual band. I didn't quite catch the name of all their songs but the one song they were kind enough to bestow upon us twice was called "the yakitori song." My Japanese abilities
weren't quite up to deciphering the complex lyrics but from what my friend said, the song was all about yakitori. Some lines including; "I walk around with my boyfriend eating yakitori" and "When I feel like yakitori, I ring my friends and we go eat yakitori." Score 1 Japan.
Anyway after the event we did the usual. Got drunk, played wii till early in the morning and then called it a day.
a lot of things and to catch up now would entail to much work on my part. So I'll slowly
catch you all up when I have the time. So I'll just mention one REALLY exciting thing I've done
recently.
On the 30th of September Fukushima hosted the annual ( I'm guessing it is atleast) yakitori olympics!!!!!!!.
People from all over Japan come to cook various "meats on sticks" and charge somewhat ridiculous prices for them. Yes it was exciting as it sounds. Atleast the food was pretty good although I believe that it's impossible to screw up "meat on a stick." The best I had was some chicken from Aizu (the same place where the festival I went to that I haven't told you about was). From what I understand the meat they used was from the chickens ass. I had always considered myself a breast man but I can definetely say I'm now an ass man through and through.
And of course no yakitori festival would be complete without various stands dedicated to shitty Japanese beer and sake. One stand in particular caught our attention cause they were the only ones willing to give out free samples. So we stood there and drank their sake and chatted and displayed are foreignness and of all things they gave us all a copy of a DVD they had produced. I haven't watched it yet but I'm sure it has all kinds of interesting tidbits about the brewing of their sake through many generations. I was kinda baffled as to why they would hand out DVD's to a bunch of foreigners they just "stole" their booze but heh whatever.
Quickly we left the sake stand and ran as fast as we could to the center stage to watch the yakitori girls sing. No thats not my clever name for them. I'm not that impressive. That was the name of their actual band. I didn't quite catch the name of all their songs but the one song they were kind enough to bestow upon us twice was called "the yakitori song." My Japanese abilities
weren't quite up to deciphering the complex lyrics but from what my friend said, the song was all about yakitori. Some lines including; "I walk around with my boyfriend eating yakitori" and "When I feel like yakitori, I ring my friends and we go eat yakitori." Score 1 Japan.
Anyway after the event we did the usual. Got drunk, played wii till early in the morning and then called it a day.
posted by rounder24 at
9:10 PM
3 Comments:
u my wigga bro. full stop. miss you :(
yo!!!!!!
i just bought a cell phone!!
haha~
hey which provider r u with?
me with AU~ with the cheapest plan!! hahahah~
i love the jap phones aye!
i'll be goin to get my phone in about 30minz time~
n when i figure out how to use it n stuff~ i'll txt u! (dunno my number yet atm!)
ps me "borrowing" other pplz internet atm!! ;-)
The Japanese seem to really enjoy making a sport out of their food. When I was down in good ole Kyuushuu, there was, naturally, a full on Ramen competition. Didn't their mothers ever tell them not to play with food?
それと、飲んで、酔ってばかりいないで、ちゃんと英語を教えなさい。
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