Eating at a "World Buffet" with some neighbors

From L-R Coop Guy, Mrs. Tanaka, another neighbor and her daughter Maho, and a new neighbor that I haven't met yet.

Kim here....While Marc was at work....

At 11am on October 16th, I am going with the neighbor women to the same buffet that Marc and I went to last week. I am not exactly what I am going to eat. I have to figure it out on my own this time. All I can say is that when I get back, I am going to want to eat out at certain places because Japan either can’t make that specific product or they just don’t have it. The lunch went very well. I actually met Mrs. Tanaka’s 2 daughters and they are around my age. The oldest is my age and the second daughter lives in another area. The youngest is only 20yrs. The youngest wants to play “catch ball” softball with me. I thought it sounded great but both daughters’ can’t speak English. It’s very hard for them. I still felt uncomfortable but after awhile I realized that it was fun trying to understand Japanese and they speaking in English.

A couple of our conversations were about me and what I do…..I said I have a graphic degree from the “university” college. I have to explain to them what I did and they wanted to see a few of my things. When I was explaining what kind of projects I had made in the past, they were so excited and impressed. We also talked about Marc and I and I was telling them about the wedding album and that I brought it with us. One of the neighbor women had fun looking at the pictures. She and I were talking about my tutoring experience and then comparing it to learning English. It’s very hard and she understood it. Going out to eat with them was great. It got me out of this house so I didn’t think about my sadness.

Remember awhile back when I wrote about the GPS system in most vehicles? Well, The lady next door has on in her van is it was showing TV. I think it was from the satellite but I am not sure. Anywho, it’s easier for the Japanese to back their vehicles in the parking spots because the road area is very narrow. On her GPS showed a video of the back and how far she has to go to back in. I thought it was just the coolest thing to have on a van or car. I know about the direction, talking to you about narrow turns, color (change) on the screen, and now the video screen on the back. How crazy??