Kyou wa watashi no tanjoubi desu! Today is my birthday. I had a big day with Ito-sensei and Sam applying for our alien registration cards (gaijin cards), getting bank accounts and trying to get mobile phones set up. Unfortunately, Soft Bank, the mobile phone provider that we are going to go with, won’t let us get phones until we actually have the gaijin cards. Oh well, try again in about 3 weeks. Got back to work after lunch with It-sensei at Nankau (?), a 24 hour donburi place where you order from a vending machine and had a few hours of hard work. Checked my email in the afternoon, and was thrilled to see that Facebook had gone nuts with birthday messages. The world feels much smaller when there is Facebook to say hello to all of the people who you care about. Awww. After work, I went on a cake mission with Sam. We bought the most perfect looking strawberry shortcake slices (ichigo shorto) from a French bakery that is on the corner near our house. But that, dear blog, not enough! We went to the supermarket to buy some drinks, and I realised that the bakery was having a 100 yen clearance sale! So o4 more types of cake and pastry later, we had our dinner! We had a chocolate éclair in which the pastry was made with French toast. Oh yes. A cheesecake slice. Hells yeah. A croissant pastry thing filled with lemony yellow and cream. Oh my! And some weird spaghetti-looking cake thing filled with cream and custard which was actually a bit weird. Hmmmm. And of coure, the piece-de-resistance, the STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE! Oishii desu. I had a big talk with Mum and Fletch on the phone and watched new Futurama and IT Crowd to round out my Japanese birthday, 
then got some much needed sleep. Sam and I both seem to be getting weary fairly quickly here – I think it’s a combination of the heat, the extra biking and walking, and the extra mental activity involved in using extra parts of our brain all the time in trying to understand all of the new things and new language and new writing all around us.
Food highlights: definitely gyudon for lunch – a beef donburi dish which means delicious bulgogi-like beef and onion meat dish on rice - 590 yen for a big dish with cold udon and lots of o-cha (green tea). Sam’s was called (family) rice, or parent and child – meant tamago (egg) and chicken (tori) in a donburi dish.
then got some much needed sleep. Sam and I both seem to be getting weary fairly quickly here – I think it’s a combination of the heat, the extra biking and walking, and the extra mental activity involved in using extra parts of our brain all the time in trying to understand all of the new things and new language and new writing all around us. Food highlights: definitely gyudon for lunch – a beef donburi dish which means delicious bulgogi-like beef and onion meat dish on rice - 590 yen for a big dish with cold udon and lots of o-cha (green tea). Sam’s was called (family) rice, or parent and child – meant tamago (egg) and chicken (tori) in a donburi dish.
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