Cooking Class

This weekend was full of new things, just like always. This weekend my group from school had all different schedules so I decided I'd give this weekend to my host parents. (After our Friday's weekly karaoke night of course) Saturday began with a whole day of fun for me. After I did laundry and hung it outside I got ready to go to Hirakatashi. I needed to get my new train pass, which was more difficult than I thought. I forgot to get the slip of paper from Kansai Gaidai so I could only get a one month renewell instead of the three month pass. I'm going to lose a few bucks over this, but not too much. After I got my new pass I walked over to Hirakata's community center where my class was. My host mom does a lot of things with community centers so she signed me up for this cooking class (she often ahs me help her in the kitchen at home and it's fun to learn how to make Japanese food). There were a few other Kansai Gaidai students, but most of them were just other foreigners living in Hirakata. Hirakata is home to a large population of forigners, because of Kansai Gaidai and businesses. This class taught us how to make a bento. Everything was really simple and I fully intend on making more bentos when I return home. As I said on my facebook photo albumb: I made Onigiri, chicken wrapped over carrot slices and a green veggie, fried tofu, two different types of bean curds, one with a boiled egg and one with beef and carrots. We made rice noodles and an apple, fake cheese and cucumber salad. I wrote down all the directions (I'm going to make everyone try it when I get back! :D)

After class I went back home. On the way back I bought a mini fower arangement for my otousan because tonight we were going out for his birthday. We went to a western style restaurant about 20 minutre drive away. It had all you can eat bread. The 'bread people' I dubbed them walked up to each table about every 3 minutes to give you more. I got to eat with a fork and knife again.. T_T We had cold water to! We ate chicken and asparagus and shrimp in a white sauce thing. Carrot soup. Deliciousness. Mmm