Saturday, September 6, 2008

Weird food and loose teeth

Momo's lost one of her milk teeth. It's been annoying her for the past week, making it painful to eat because it's loose. I told her what Norwegians do (or at least my family does) which is we tie a piece of string around the tooth and pull. Fast and mostly harmless. Or dad the bearded awesomeness comes in and asks to "look at it" - and before you realize his evil intent your tooth's in his hand instead of in your mouth. Plop! ("Plouhp!") Her reaction to that was "Damee!" (something like "Don't!") followed by a laugh and clasping her hands before her mouth. I said she should watch out - maybe the scary Norwegian would visit her while she was sleeping! XD
...Did you know? Here in Japan, they put teeth you lose from your lower jaw up under the roof so the new ones will grow straight up. Those you lose from your upper jaw they put under the house for the same reason. I never knew!

On Saturday, we went to watch Ryotaro's sports festival (a day where all the students at your school compete in different games). It looked quite fun - especially the tug of war!

Tug of war! I want to join~

After the games, we went into the nearby building to listen to the brass band play. They were really good! They also had a game where they allowed people in the audience to conduct - it was really fun to watch! XD Also, the logo over the band's head was kind of creepy - it's true what someone once told me: after going to my school for some years, you start seeing E's and the E logo everywhere! 0__o

Where we all sat.

They look suspiciously much alike if you flip either one. E! They're everywhere!!


While this was going on, everybody watching sat on the floor and ate lunch they'd brought along. Yum! Momo's tooth fell out while eating!

Kaa-san's examining...

Momo and her tooth!

Tokage - Momo's favourite toy - had to take a look too. And I had to take a picture.

Also, I've figured out there must be some kind of weird rules for Japanese food (and snacks):

- Almost everything should have a variation with the taste of grape, green tea or peach. (Or all three.)
- "Bread" should be made of 100% white flour and taste sweet. (Basically, they equal sweet rolls.) And no, meron pan (melon bread) does not taste of melon.
- Pocky has a million tastes, not just chocolate, strawberry or green tea. There's orange, Brazillian pudding (whatever that is) and blueberry!
- Butter is something you put inside bread. In small lumps. Never on top!
- It's western? Cool! Let's take that - and Japanize it! XD

Location: Japan!

2 comments:

Alexia Kaori said...

Brazilian puddin! omg this is so weird, but the puddin, i can tell, is veery good!

Helene said...

I bought the pocky - yes, it is! XD

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