Sushi!
Its funny how some days, when you look back, can seem really bizarre.
Tuesday started with my first play time. What that is, in a nutshell, is our company gets paid to drop one of us foreign teachers for a few hours of abuse at the hands of children.
It went plenty fine, it was a beautiful day. Beautiful and hot. I had sweat through my shirt by 10AM. My shoes were also full of the weird kitty-litter sand they use on the play ground. The rest of the day involved the children giving stool and urine samples, musical chairs, and curry rice for lunch.
After play time I cooled off by teaching 4 classes. I never stopped sweating.
Then our boss’s boss took us to dinner. I need to bring up that they don’t speak English and they also don’t really socialize much with us “Round-eyes.”
They were going to take us out to a “nice” sushi restaurant. Our definition of nice sushi runs about $1 a piece. For our bosses, who own a 2nd home in Hawaii, it runs around $6 a piece.
Here’s the Japanese for what I ate for all you know Japanese only because of Sushi:
- Kanimiso
- Uni
- Anago
- Negitoro
- Daiebi
- Ikura
- Kai
- Kappa
- Salmon
The descriptions are below.
I’ll give a short description of what it all was, and a scale of 1 to 5 for how it was.
- Crab brains (3)
- Sea Urchin (-2)
- A kind of BBQ’d eel (4)
- Tuna and onion (5)
- Big shrimp (5)
- Salmon Eggs (3)
- Scallops (2)
- Cucumber (5)
- Salmon (5)
We had a great night, and the next morning during a class a kid peed his pants.
You just never know what is going to happen.
May 14th, 2009 at 10:11 am by rl