The Eighth Day

Happy day! A sleep in! After enjoying a much needed sleep in I decided to walk around the park right next to my apartment. It was absolutely stunning. It beats any park I’ve been to, and this one was practically in my backyard.

The main entrance to the park.

Some of the beautiful flowers there.

After my walk I met up with some other ALTs on the othe side of the city to go furniture shopping at a store called Nitori, I still needed a dresser to put my clothes is, a toaster oven (there’s no such thing as an oven in Japan- all apartments are outfitted with just a stove top and a microwave if you’re lucky-I wasn’t), and a chair for my desk. For some strange reason I had also made it my do or die mission to find some decorative pillows for my couch, as I hadn’'t been able to find any anywhere (I thought I had a couple days earlier but the pillows themselves are just oversized beanbags and are highly uncomfortable- now I just use them as weights to hold my blanket in place on my bed). Nitori was a huge success though and I left having ordered everything I needed and bought just about everything I wanted. We all went to yet another ramen shop on the way home and oh. my. goodness. This ramen even topped the last one. It was also spicy, but where it got the edge was with the noodles. They were the best noodles I’ve ever tasted. I would post a picture, but this bowl was devoured far too quickly to even catch a photo of it.
I spent my evening decorating my apartment and finally getting around to unpacking my suitcases. By the time that was done, I was hungry but too tired to go out to buy food so I once again crashed after finishing my third load of laundry.