A T-shirt

Yesterday I went out for lunch at the new French restaurant in town. It was like being in...not Japan...except for all the Japanese people. But I'm not going to lie, I wasn't feeling so adventurous so I didn't order the cow stomache (and no one else in there ordered it either while we were there...). It was weird to have rice that wasn't sticky, and I've discovered that I can no longer use a fork; I had to switch back to chopsticks.

They are renovating some of the stairs on the platform at the train station in Takanosu. I go there every Friday morning at the same time, so I guess the workers have figured out my schedule. Today they all poked up over the tall fence/wall they were working behind and just waved so happily at me. (I know they were waving at me because I was the only one on the platform at that point, and they said a cheerful "good morning!") What a priviledge to stick out so much...

One of my friends took me to rent some movies this afternoon. I ended up with an English movie and a Japanese cartoon of Anne of Green Gables, at my friend's request. People over here just love Anne of Green Gables, and they think that because I'm Canadian I must love it too. In all honesty I've never seen the movie, read the book, or even been all that interested in doing either. But as of right now, from a couple of different Japanese friends, I have both the book and the movie just waiting to suck me into Anne-world at my apartment. How exciting. I think I'm learning how to be Canadian while I'm here in Japan.

The weather is changing drastically. It feels really cold now, and it's 13 degrees, definitely not quite weather temperature...I'm going to die. It's so hard to believe that just a few weeks ago I was wearing shorts and t-shirts and sweating, a few weeks before that unable to wear much of anything and sweating, and today I wore two short sleeved shirts, a long sleeve sweater and my down vest, pants, socks and slippers and I was still cold. It should be illegal for the temperature to fluctuate so much so fast.

Today I solved a Japanese riddle. Actually I totally just made that out to sound better than it actually is. My friend's son and his friend had this riddle book, and they were reading them to us. Really they're just grade three level problems but still...I'll share the riddle with you in English: What has only one entrance but three exits?