Homestay

Did a homestay with the Sekines again.

4-year-old Kanta helping with the pancakes for breakfast.

Kanta showing off his Anpanman plasters. There's nothing wrong with his forehead by the way.

After breakfast, it's time to pick vegetables from the garden. Koharu looking for ripe cherry tomatoes to eat.

Sekine-san was very pleased with a big cucumber she picked.

Grandpa picking daikon (radish) leaves. They use the daikon leaves for boiling soup. The trick is to leave 2-3 stalks of leaves so that the daikon can still grow.

I made the only Singaporean food item I can make - kaya! :D They said that it was oishii (delicious) and amai (sweet) with an "Asian foreign taste". Colour a bit light hor?

We also made mochi for lunch. With modern technology, there is this machine that you place the cooked rice into and it kinda vibrates and shakes the rice turning it into mochi after a while. Most amazing!

Kyoko, Hisashi and Takeshi joined us for lunch and we celebrated Hisashi's 30th birthday for him.

When you live in a village, everyone knows everyone. Going to the supermarket takes twice as long as it should cos you have to stop and talk to everyone you meet on the way there and back and in the supermarket. Then word spreads that you have a foreigner in your house and the next morning, your neighbours just pop by to chat. Very funny ;P