Thanks for that

June 22nd, 2006

I’ve been given some pretty weird things here, but I’ve got to say that fresh picked seaweed definitely ranks near the top. This batch was given to me by my eikaiwa (English conversation) student and great friend, Etsuko. Etsuko and Yuka have been my students for nearly three years now, and together they make the best stand-in mother a girl could hope for. It’s a rare week when I don’t come home from class without my bag stuffed with goodies: a bag of fresh onions Etsuko got from a friend, fresh loquat from Yuka, and then of course the seaweed. Etsuko actually went to the beach, stuffed half a year’s worth of wakame in shopping bags (for a Japanese person this is a LOT), and stuck it in the hotel refrigerator. Apparently this is normal. She recommended that in the off chance we couldn’t finish the fresh wakame in a week’s time, we should hang it out on the laundry line to dry it so we could save it for later. Um, we’re still saving it… (September 2004)

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