sushi

yes, i ate there for like four days straight for lunch. the soup was awesome; made with real fish stock.

wednesday. woke up at around 10:30am today. i've been having some weird dreams here in japan. yesterday, i dreamt that michele, an old rn who is also a supervisor for the adrc project ran into me at the movies and started asking me questions about the project. it was so strange. last night i dreamt that i was being chased by some japanese gangsters. and i had to hid in the bushes so they couldn't find me.

yesterday i felt so lethargic. my aunt says it's the humidity. today's somewhat cloudy but still humid. i don't feel so tired, but it's hard getting out of the house. i'm now watching the twins play the mariners and listening to chinese music while i'm typing this up. snoopy is sitting next to my legs sniffing my feet. it tickles. hahaha.

today i'm suppose to have sushi with my aunt at around 1pm meaning i should just about get ready to go. i'll write more when i get back. i'm also going to walk around yokohama for a bit to see if i can get a book. i know that there's a bookstore called yurinda around here somewhere. and i want to get my neighbours at home some tea, kimmy and joshua something and of course something for deidra.

i saw a little store selling cat stuff which is interesting. oh well, i should go get ready. it's now 1:05pm.

5:03pm. i'm back. today's been pretty good, i actually got a chance and strength to do some tourisy stuff. for lunch today, my aunt took me to have sushi across from motomachi, which is a shopping little area next to chinatown. we walked from the office to a restaurant called dai sushi, which consisted essentially of a sushi bar seating only 10-12 people and a two seater with a tiny table at the back. not much room. my aunt and i arrived at 1:50pm, just before the afternoon closing time.

the sushi was really fucking amazing. so fresh and tasty. the sushi chef was a very friendly old man. my aunt told me that when my uncle comes to japan, he would come to dai sushi four or five times a week for lunch. that's a lot of sushi, especially since my uncle is a very big guy. the sushi chef started our lunch by giving us each a cup of hot green tea. then he placed two large leafs in front of us with some pickled ginger and radish. we started off with some fatty tuna (toro) and a fish called isaki, then sweet shrimp (amaebei) and another type of shrimp called sako, after that came the salmon roe (ikura), eel (anako) and sweet egg (tamagoyaki), next he made small mussel (kobashira) and finally a tuna hand roll (tekamaki). he also gave us a bowl of miso soup made with shrimp heads and shells with some shallots. delicious. he finished it with a cookie from a bin he keeps above him.

it's after midnight now. i'm a bit worn out. i'll continue tomorrow.