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I went to Coco’s Curry House with Natalie and some of her colleagues tonight for dinner.  Coco’s is a Japanese-style curry chain restaurant with a franchise just 3 minutes walk from my hosue and a frequent JET hangout in Nakatsu.  The sign outside the building (above) )says, “We are making delicious curry” in Japanese.  I [...]

Today, Luke and I went to get some conveyor belt sushi (回転寿司）for lunch and then we took a short roadtrip to Ajimu to visit a waterfall, the perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon and to beat the heat of a hot July day.

Horse mackerel (鯵) swimming in the tank:

Horse mackerel sushi and sashimi (鯵の活き尽くし). [...]

Last night, we had our leaving party/dinner shindig for JET participants in Oita City at the Oasis Tower Hotel.  It was a great evening, albeit a little bit sad to see some people for the last time.  Only 18 more days until I leave Japan!!
After the dinner we headed over to Miyako Machi, the entertainment [...]

Japenglinese is a new blogging side-project that I started. The goal of this experimental project is to assist in the mastery of Japanese and Chinese vocabulary words. Basically, this blog will function as my personal learning notebook that will chart my own personal progress in my life-long goal to master these notoriously difficult [...]

セサミパン Sesame bread
ボイルフランクフルト Boiled Frankfurter
ボイルキャベツ Boiled cabbage
一食ケチャップ＆マスタード Single-serving ketchup and mustard
パンプキンスープ Pumpkin soup
牛乳 Milk
School lunch was quite good today. The sesame bread had both black and white sesame seeds in it and had a lot more texture and [...]