1. You buy a HOT bottled drink from a vending machine.
2. Your toilet seat is heated and the sink is actually connected to the back of the toilet (no water waste). 🙂
3. There is only one room in the house that is heated (at a time), so you spend more time freezing then warm.
4. You get to try Squid, salmon, shrimp, fugu (poisonous puffer fish), eel, tuna all on sushi. My favorite is tuna!!
5. You throw a kids party at the church consisting of games, a dance party and snacks.
6. You go to a traditional Japanese tea ceremony but it wasn’t the traditional length of 4-5 hours (luckily).
7. You ride a cow to go to a public ohnsen (bathhouse) and take a public bath (as if that is a normal everyday thing).
8. You visit the 100 Yen store often because it is one of the only places you can afford. (Buying tons and tons of yarn there…)
9. You eat one Takoyaki (which is squishy bread octopus balls) and you try to eat a second one to be polite, but you have to go behind a tree or you would throw it up.
10. You play silly sentences with your English students and some of the sentences are: “The funny tree kisses up the gentle fish.” “The happy carrot crawls over the fast bird.” “The dull squirrel breaks on a shy woman.”
11. You have a fabulous photo booth with your English students in which you make an alter ego named Frannie McStasherson.
