News from the bottom of the udon bowl

Konichiwa a todos!

Geographic location

We are now in Nagoya.
After 12 days in Shikoku, we are in our way to Tokyo, and stopped in this central city to visit Asami for the last time.
I`m going to do a little `cronica` of our last weeks:

- After Kyoto, we went down the country and had a japanese baths (onsen) and japanese food festival with Asami`s family. We met her parents and sisters, and had a little pijama party at her house, where her mother offered us all the sweets that we needded to `speak about boys`.






















- The day after, we entered in Shikoku island singing some opera. It received us with some non-japanese speaking citizens. There we did a roadtrip during the last 12 days,
having some daily udon eating, we did some mystic temple visiting























and especially, getting ourselves used to a NON-OCCIDENTAL-PEOPLE experiencie.





















Anecdotes

- Manolo is 57! we had some shabu-shabu dinner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabu-shabu and sake on the rocks.

- In Shikoku we also experienced `settai`. When shikoku citizens meet you as a pilgrim, they give you a present. In exchange, you give them a `fuda`, a type of spiritual identification paper.

- Liz had some toilet-water shower yesterday in the last Camping. Beautiful end for a windy barbacue!

- Shikoku national dancing is eel dancing. It is called Awa Odori. Just imagine some japanese people in a line and moving their bodies as if they were some eels. To some of us it was incredibly funny. You can`t miss it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtOG-fsncvQ

Language barriers

- We already speak some japanese. For example, Craudia says `how much is it?` to say `excuse me`, and Juan-Paburo says arigatou to say hello. Magnifico!






























- Japanese people simply don`t say no. They put on a face as if they had just eaten a lemon, and they cross their arms. Another curiosity is that they even speak more after you tell them that you don`t understand. We don`t know how to express our exhaustion.

More, more, more

After some sushing tonight and sleeping in hostel Ann (where Liz or me are going to sleep on the floor of the hostel`s dining room because they only have one vacancy), we are beginning tomorrow our glorious route to Tokyo, our final stage.

Farewell

For everyone out there,
our best japanese bows

Author`s note

I ask for public forgiveness for my almost monumental spelling errors.