WOOOOOO! |
And it tastes good!
(still possible to eat an entire one yourself, but less shame involved)
The recipe I has calls for sweetened condensed milk and water, so I tried replacing the water with coconut milk, and it's really nice! Very creamy.
But back to the week!
The weather has perked up, so I biked to school twice this week. And realized how out of shape I seem to be. WOW.
Tuesday I taught English class in the evening at church for the second week. The students say they enjoy it because I always add such random stuff to it. "Astronaut means space sailor!" "THIS is a tuxedo cat!" :D
The students had "parent's day" at the various schools. Monday school's was last week, but it was on a Wednesday, so I didn't have to worry about it. Wednesday's school was...on Wednesday this week, so I got to teach a class with a bunch of parents watching. One of the other teachers asked if I was nervous and I said "No. They're not here to see me. If anything goes wrong, they're going to be watching you, not me." (I'm so mean)
And it went well! There was a MOMENT of the teacher looking at me and thinking "I didn't think the students would get through their presentations so quickly what do we do?!" And I fluffed the lesson a bit.
At least that's what I THINK he was trying to convey. I'm still not psychic.
For the parent's day, the students get to show of a lot of what they're learning, and it's always fun to see the other students getting excited over it too!
Look at these cool pictures! |
Anyhow, it was a good day.
Wednesday was also a Relief society get together. One of the other Foreign sisters taught how to make Flautas!
they were yummy |
Her Grandma's Mexican.
Since tortillas cost so much over here, she showed them how to make some!
They really enjoyed it. |
It's a lot easier than I thought.
And then they put them together.
They really enjoyed this! |
And the whole thing turned out well.
Let's see, what else.....I decided to filter out my soy sauce, because it's time. It's been time for a while now.
ewwww |
I've changed how I 'm doing it a few times now, and I think I finally found something that works, but the first night, I had this open soy sauce draining all night. And it smells...fermenty. Kinda yeasty. And for some reason that meant I dreamed about PANCAKES.
ALL NIGHT.
Now I have it covered so I do not have dreams that make me want to eat my pillow.
I guess it kinda hit that I'm going home soon, because on Friday, I hopped over to a second hand store I heard was going out of business (so everything is half off) and bought a bunch of Kimono and Obi. (I have PLANS for that silk). Later, I was feeling cold, so I went to the bath house, but first, I stopped by the mall to look for a bag mom had picked up here and then lost.
I never DID make it too the bath house.
By the time I staggered out, I figured 1) I had already spent enough, 2) I was finally warm and 3) the bath house doesn't have lockers for all the bags I was now hauling. :P
I try to watch my spending so very carefully, so Saturday, I figured I'd go somewhere that I wouldn't be tempted at all.
A temple market.
I'm bad at self control. :P |
Apparently it was a BIG and FAMOUS one. Because it was huge! And SO CROWDED.
so crowded. |
We got to see more plum blossoms!
artistic. |
Flowers! |
ART. |
And there was the temple, of course.
very noisy with all the bells, but awesome |
And there was a HUGE flippin line for tea ceremony stuff, but we were ok with not going in. We'd both tea ceremonied before and were not interested in waiting in a long line again.
Then we went to the market part!
tiny bottles with paintings inside |
beautiful flowers I would hate to kill... |
I like the little moss ball at the bottom. |
tiny furniture! |
There was food too. For those who have seen my comic on festival food...
in case you don't remember. |
I got a picture of the flavor options at the fry stand. (they call french fries "potato")
salt, curry, soy sauce and butter, roast soy sauce, corn syrup, garlic, consomme |
BBQ, pickled plum, Takoyaki, and cheese |
I BET YOU THOUGHT I WAS EXAGGERATING.
This particular temple market seemed to have a lot of kimono stuff.
like a lot |
There were lots of stands that were selling them pretty cheaply. The less organized, the cheaper it was. These go for 10-15$ each.
Some we found were even less. There were two stands that were "$20 gets you everything you can stuff into this bag". One of the two like that even had a $50 bag option! (sucker was big) We ended up splitting a $20 bag. :)
though, seriously, |
how much for this guy's coat? |
Of course, buying them inexpensive means we didn't get any of the REALLY amazing ones.
like this one |
But those cost a lot for a REASON, and we're ok accepting our level of poverty.
Oh! And I played a festival game!
spin the roulette |
get a candy! |
I have no idea what it was, but I THINK it was semi-solid corn syrup with flavoring.
Oh well!
Fun week! Hope you're all doing well!