Monday Oct 8

MONDAY OCT 8th
Ohayo gozaimasu! (that means good morning in Japanese.)

You are probably at school by now in the morning but now it is 9:00 at night here. Today, we went out for breakfast at Jonathan's. Then we went back to our apartment and I did my very frustrating school work. Which I didn't know how to do the story problems. But I figured it out and my parents helped me.
Then we went on 2 trains to a place my aunts would like because they love shopping. It was very busy and I think there were 800 bagillion people in the stores shopping and by the sidewalks, walking on the streets crossing, and there was a car that almost slid off the roads.
Then we went to a sushi place for dunch (dinner and lunch). There was a moving track that went all the way around the table and it had plates on it and it was going very slow so that you can pick your own little plates of sushi one at a time. The food on the plates were 2 bite size pieces. (Also you can order off the menu if you don't see what you want.) The different colors of the plates told you what it costs because they had a sign on the wall that told you. It was a good story problem for me to figure out. Maybe you can too.

The blue pattern plates costed 220 yen.
The brown checkered plates costed 160 yen.
The white flower plates were 130 yen.
The green flower plates were 100 yen.

I took 1 blue pattern plate. 2 brown checkered plates. 1 white flowered plate and 1 green flower plate.
Can you figure out how much I spent?


After lunch we went a store that had all kinds of Japanese stuff. They sold art, fragile dolls, tea sets, swords, and kimonos. A kimono is a cross between a robe and a dress. But it is much prettier than a robe. Kimonos are only used for very special occasions like weddings, tea ceremonies and graduations. Since I've been in Japan I've been counting how many. So far 36. My father offered to buy me one. Of course I said yes. I tried one on for size and found a shelf with my size kimonos and I picked one out. I cant wait to show you when I get back.