On Thursday, we drove to Yurari onsen which is in a town called Tadami. I really love the onsen when the weather gets cold and I felt really refreshed after the bath - very good for your circulation. The water in Yurari onsen is a reddish colour because of the high level of iron in the water. After the bath, we relaxed in the lounge on zabuton (Japanese cushions) and played cards on the low tables. Because it was a holiday and I was not driving, I was also able to have a couple of Kirin beers. Lucky me.
Yuki's parents took us to a yakiniku restaurant on Friday evening in the next town called Tajima. Yakiniku is a Korean style BBQ of meat and vegetables, cooked over a charcoal or gas brazier. I really love eating yakiniku and so I was looking forward to the meal and a few beers. The beef was excellent and was made even better after dipping it in a spicy soy sauce mixed with chilli paste. Delicious!! On Friday, I was pretty tired after a busy week at work (despite the holiday on Thursday) and was looking forward to relaxing and enjoying the food at the yakiniku restaurant. Next week will also be busy with evening conversation classes (which I was volunteered for without anyone telling me!!), elementary school, and junior high school.
We didn't do much on Saturday. We drove to Kirara onsen for a bath and spent a lot of time in the lounge relaxing and dozing. Very pleasant. Our visits to the local onsens will become ever more frequent as the weather gets colder and the snows piles up. I am now mentally prepared for the oncoming winter assault. Not long now until December and the end of year party season in Japan. With all the parties, snow, and skiing, I'll probably have a lot to blog about. Cheers.
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Glad you had a good weekend with all the baths and nice food - picture made my mouth water! Anyway have a good week and enjoy those conversation classes that you do out of the goodness of your heart!
Yes.
We finished this conversation a couple of weeks ago.
I think a should ask Santa for a helmet for Christmas to help deal with his obsession!!
We've been there and done that already - you missed it.
I once took a piss in an onsen.
I really love my boyfriend, at school he's in my class,
It's so hard not to love him, though his blood is made of grass.
He goes down every lunchtime, to the brook with all his mates,
I don't mind that he goes down there, it's just the stuff he takes.
First it makes him happy, then it makes him bad,
Then afterwards when I'm with him, he'll shout 'till I'm sad.
My friends say I should dump him, they say he's wrong upstairs,
But it's not him it's what he smokes which makes him fall off chairs.
He thinks that I am stupid and I don't know what he does,
But he can't see the consequences and what it does to us.
I really wish he'd stop it, he never smoked before,
I guess the grass keeps holding him and grabbing with its claw.
When we first met he was so good at football in the park,
But now I never see him when he goes out after dark,
At school I don't see him much although he's in my class,
His priorities are weed then booze then mates then me who's last.
Maybe I should dump him and do what my friends say,
But if I say I'm going to, I'll do it another day.
Why can't things just go back to how it used to be,
No weed, no booze, no cigarettes, just his friends and me.
He promises it's just for fun, nothing serious just yet,
But what does he call serious, how plastered can he get?
Maybe one day when we've left school, we can turn over a new leaf,
That is of course if he is not a junkie and a thief.
When we first met he was so nice, long letters he would send,
But here we are right here and now our relationship must end.
So I'm sorry to my boyfriend you have to know the score,
You can quit or we are finished I can't take this anymore.
Wait a minute, I've heard that before!
why oh why oh why did I tell alec that I read these comments on your Blogg site Kane....I should have known better. I suspect that by the cunning (or not so cunning) change of user name ruse, alec could spend a good deal of time talking to himself.
Hank
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