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In America there are many of the same products available that can be found here in Japan. One big difference is the quantity. American quantities are much larger. Here are two large jars of jiffy peanut butter. Their combined weight is 2.72 kilograms. That's a lot of peanut butter, but not if you're an American, it's just normal.

  

I had so much fun at the Zenigata festival! It was great to go back to Kanonji and enjoy the festival. It reminded me of my first year here in Japan. Zenigata Festival was the first festival I went to in Japan, and the first time I ever wore yukata outside!
It's been a long time since then, but I still love wearing yukata. I was happy to wear a new one this year too!




It was so hot, but I had a lot of fun eating festival food and hanging out with my friends!
  

I don’t always cook, but when I do, it’s as simple as can be. Pictured is a closeup of some chicken salad I made. I started making chicken salad for an event a few months ago. We teachers were asked to each bring something representative of Western culture. Naturally I had nothing to say (I don’t cook and I’m Filipino), but a fellow teacher gave me a recommendation: chicken salad. As straight forward as can be. My mom makes chicken salad back at home, so I had a taste of it. I never was too big a fan of it, though, since it’s heavy on mayo. But I figure if I’m going to make it, I can make it as healthy as can be. I searched online, found several recipes, and combined them all. That is as Arian as possible as I can could make any recipe. Just research and combine and innovate. I feared it couldn’t have been as good as any one of the recipes alone. But when others started tasting it at one of our events, I was suprised to learn that it had gathered a fan. For the next event, the same thing. This second time of making it, however, I didn’t look at the recipes and just went off memory. Instead of white onion, red onion. Instead of celery, cucumber. Instead of salt, olives. But I’ll tell you what the secret is: almonds. The second and third times, I have to say, are improvements. As simple as can be.  

I used to live in Takamatsu for almost 3 years. I recently took my bike to Takamatsu and rode around exploring like a tourist. It made me feel very nostalgic. There are a lot of new things, the biggest change, however, is that my old apartment building no longer exists. I guess I am not surprised though, because it was a very old building. I hope they build something new and beautiful in that space.