Canadian Ryori (Canadain Cuisine)

So I found this awesome website with many good films and documentaries about random things. I have been watching a lot of UFO ones, it’s interesting I don’t see why the US and UK government just doesn’t give the world the okay to tell the citizens about the other alien life. I wonder if an alien would ever want to visit me, I think it would be scary but very interesting and a wonderful experience. I hope they would be kind to me and respect my body/mind rights ha-ha; definitely not into vivisection or dissection of my body, although if I had to choose I would do with the dissection for obvious reasons. I wonder how the aliens fly across space from different star systems…or if they are future people. Well other then watching documentary’s today I cooked for a group of ladies.

I was picked up around 9:30am and taken to some sort of community center on the opposite side of the nakai train line (the train station I use to get into namba). I made my mothers favourite vegan dish, its name is ‘Kieran’s Favourite Rice” and it’s kind of like a goulash/stew. It’s very delicious and a complete protein because there is brown rice and beans (also tofu). They all seemed to enjoy it, I stressed that they can use whatever vegetables they want for the recipe which makes it quite easy to make. All of them said it was delicious so that is good. I also told them about Canada and a little big about me, some of the ladies spoke English so they could translate for me…no I’m still unable to speak Japanese. I mean I can tell them who I am and where I am from and what I like but I can not elaborate. I also gave them all little Canadian flag pins, I hope they are not like ‘oh great more junk’ and make the recipe again for their families. Around 1:30pm I was dropped back off at home. Before I left the center a lady handed me an envelope and thanked me. When I got home I opened it and there was 70,000 yen in it. I would have refused this if I knew what it was but I thought it was a thank you card. The Japanese rarely take charity for anything. I mean I never once was thinking ‘I hope I get money out of this’ it was just for fun. It’s nice to have extra cash though so I can’t complain there.

Speaking of extra cash I have taken up a tutoring job. Michelle has left Japan for a new job experience and I took over her tutors. They are 4 grown professors, so sometimes I feel a bit odd instructing people who are greatly my senior. The first lesson went okay I did not really teach anything only spoke and had conversation with one of the men. This last lesson was more successful as all 4 of the men showed up. I did a pronunciation exercise with them and also taught them homonyms that begin with A. I think every lesson I will teach a new homonym group. Homonyms for those of you who do not remember grade 5 English class are words that sound the same but have different meaning; such as Air and Heir. So that went well and they are all nice men, very interesting characters. They also pointed out that their university will be changing its name do to how it sounds to foreigners who speak English. I was confused on why they would do this until they directly told me why, you see the university’s name is Kinki University. They pointed out to me that if I ignore the knowledge I have of the Japanese language that Kinki sounds exactly like Kinky. I was oblivious to this fact until they pointed it out to me. Now I realize how funny it can be or annoying when introducing yourself to another professor in the USA. I think they want to change it to Kinda University. Oh yes and every class I get paid 10,000 yen. So that’s really good money that’s an extra 40,000 yen a month, I don’t think I will need to dip into my savings for a while. This is good so I will not have to worry about money with friends or helping friends out with expenses!

Well I am going to continue watching my UFO documentary and maybe make some hott cocoa with Soymilk! Love you all! Take Care!