My oldest got his first loose tooth, which fell out later that night.
When it came loose, he cried like a Nazi prison guard being forced to watch footage of the death camps, and eventually fell asleep for four hours, tentatively waking to eat a dinner of all soft foods at 9PM.
He then went into hostage negotiation mode over brushing his teeth. Even mom couldn’t make headway, so I went with the tired-and-true “Fine, do it yourself.” This normally either makes him choose help from someone or do it himself and gain some independence. Usually the former, but surprisingly, he chose the latter.
Tooth popped out, and…”Mom, Dad, it came out. Little blood, but it doesn’t hurt.”
Given the drama of the afternoon, I was stuck between some anger and laughing at the ridiculousness of it all.
That aside, I had a funny interaction taking both kids to the library. I’m pretty sure I’ve borrowed every English storybook they have (which is a lot, surprisingly), but when I was looking, a random little girl and her mom rounded the corner.
The random ittle girl saw an English book I was crouched down showing my youngest, and says:
“Mom, that book is nice, can we get it?”
Mom -“It’s in English! I can’t read that!”
LG – “But it’s nice! I want to read it!”
Angrily towards me, she goes “Can YOU read this book?”
99.9% of me says “Tell her no! It’d be funny!”
00.1% wins, I say “Yes, it’s a story about Glasswings the Butterfly”
LG, in angry little girl mode – “READ IT TO ME THEN! ”
Long story short, aisle was cleared, bench and floor space too, and the MOB of kids and parents there heard a story. Staff has my phone number, international story readings were a nice pre-Covid thing they did, and I guess I’m in if they get it started up again.
Saturday: had a nice dinner at my usual Indian place with two of my fave professors from the university. one is like my substitute dad, who loves me and loves to interrogate and berate me like any SE Asian father would, and the other is like a chill Japanese uncle who is delighted to hang out with me whenever I ask. I got a load of delicious leftovers because the chefs were only too happy to make whatever my greedy little heart desired.
Sunday: introduced my Japanese boyfriend to authentic (as authentic as I could make them with my limited resources) tacos, and he *loves* them and now wants to do a full run of the major taco varieties. I’ve been meaning to buckle down and try making carnitas for a while, so now’s the time!
This weekend I went to a festival and the big ALT goodbye party. Overall a crazy but fun weekend! I didn’t drink so maybe less crazy for me personally, but interacted with a lot of drunk people.
Wore my new (to me lol) yukata to the festival and got a lot more attention that expected. A very drunk many kissed my hand before I left the house we got dragged into for more drinking after the festival. Even though the festival is far from where I live, I saw a handful of students and got to say hi to some kiddos who graduated this year and moved on to high school. It’s always fun to see just about everyone you know at the festivals.
ALT going away party was fun and crazy as always. Arm wrestled people, played card games, won the scavenger hunt, shook hands and hugged a lot of drunk people, made new friends, ate hamburgers, said goodbye to the leaving folks, roasted marshmallows, and hung out with people from all over the prefecture and the world.
Saw 2 very rude ladies at Kamakura Pasta for lunch. The staff was explaining how the unlimited bread works and one of the lady leaned back and said “English! I don’t understand you! English!”
After so much drama they were about to leave and the staff found out they were taking some of those bread home… oh I think they also paid for one unlimited bread and just share it between them 🤔
Looks like this sub literally did nothing this weekend? Only 6 comments!
We went to USJ, had fun, rained like crazy, but that didn’t stop us from having a good time.
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My oldest got his first loose tooth, which fell out later that night.
When it came loose, he cried like a Nazi prison guard being forced to watch footage of the death camps, and eventually fell asleep for four hours, tentatively waking to eat a dinner of all soft foods at 9PM.
He then went into hostage negotiation mode over brushing his teeth. Even mom couldn’t make headway, so I went with the tired-and-true “Fine, do it yourself.” This normally either makes him choose help from someone or do it himself and gain some independence. Usually the former, but surprisingly, he chose the latter.
Tooth popped out, and…”Mom, Dad, it came out. Little blood, but it doesn’t hurt.”
Given the drama of the afternoon, I was stuck between some anger and laughing at the ridiculousness of it all.
That aside, I had a funny interaction taking both kids to the library. I’m pretty sure I’ve borrowed every English storybook they have (which is a lot, surprisingly), but when I was looking, a random little girl and her mom rounded the corner.
The random ittle girl saw an English book I was crouched down showing my youngest, and says:
“Mom, that book is nice, can we get it?”
Mom -“It’s in English! I can’t read that!”
LG – “But it’s nice! I want to read it!”
Angrily towards me, she goes “Can YOU read this book?”
99.9% of me says “Tell her no! It’d be funny!”
00.1% wins, I say “Yes, it’s a story about Glasswings the Butterfly”
LG, in angry little girl mode – “READ IT TO ME THEN! ”
Long story short, aisle was cleared, bench and floor space too, and the MOB of kids and parents there heard a story. Staff has my phone number, international story readings were a nice pre-Covid thing they did, and I guess I’m in if they get it started up again.
Saturday: had a nice dinner at my usual Indian place with two of my fave professors from the university. one is like my substitute dad, who loves me and loves to interrogate and berate me like any SE Asian father would, and the other is like a chill Japanese uncle who is delighted to hang out with me whenever I ask. I got a load of delicious leftovers because the chefs were only too happy to make whatever my greedy little heart desired.
Sunday: introduced my Japanese boyfriend to authentic (as authentic as I could make them with my limited resources) tacos, and he *loves* them and now wants to do a full run of the major taco varieties. I’ve been meaning to buckle down and try making carnitas for a while, so now’s the time!
This weekend I went to a festival and the big ALT goodbye party. Overall a crazy but fun weekend! I didn’t drink so maybe less crazy for me personally, but interacted with a lot of drunk people.
Wore my new (to me lol) yukata to the festival and got a lot more attention that expected. A very drunk many kissed my hand before I left the house we got dragged into for more drinking after the festival. Even though the festival is far from where I live, I saw a handful of students and got to say hi to some kiddos who graduated this year and moved on to high school. It’s always fun to see just about everyone you know at the festivals.
ALT going away party was fun and crazy as always. Arm wrestled people, played card games, won the scavenger hunt, shook hands and hugged a lot of drunk people, made new friends, ate hamburgers, said goodbye to the leaving folks, roasted marshmallows, and hung out with people from all over the prefecture and the world.
Saw 2 very rude ladies at Kamakura Pasta for lunch. The staff was explaining how the unlimited bread works and one of the lady leaned back and said “English! I don’t understand you! English!”
After so much drama they were about to leave and the staff found out they were taking some of those bread home… oh I think they also paid for one unlimited bread and just share it between them 🤔
Looks like this sub literally did nothing this weekend? Only 6 comments!
We went to USJ, had fun, rained like crazy, but that didn’t stop us from having a good time.