Ok I'm back! Mio's mom and I dropped Mio off at work and went to look around the stores a little bit. Normally I love to go shopping for clothes but I haven't really needed any. There are tons of cute things here that I would love to own but they are expensive and I realized that I need to travel with all of them to Nagasaki and/or ship some back home and that gets even more expensive. I did however splurge on a brand new neon green Swatch! Every time I visited Switzerland I bought a new Swatch so I figured I would continue the tradition here :) We ate at McDonald's for lunch, I had a teriyaki burger. I think the meat they use for the teriyaki burger is different because it tastes a little more like sausage but it is still very good! I forgot to mention that Mio's mom doesn't understand English! I was and still am on my own while Mio is at work but I'm trying my best and using my dictionary constantly.
Mio, Yukari, and Suzuka all speak English very well so it was hard to get them to speak Japanese to me in Tokyo. I also had the tendency to zone and and not try to translate what they were saying to each other. It is very hard to concentrate when any one from another country speaks so fast in their native language. Once you translate the first few words they are already onto the next sentence so it is easy to give up. I may be making it sound like I am lazy with the language but right now i learn about 5 new words a day. This also may sound like not a big deal but along with those five words I have to learn how to incorporate it into a sentence so it is a lot of work but worth it!
There is one thing I forgot to explain about my adventures in Tokyo. Our last day in Tokyo we went to Tsukushima that is famous for having 50+ Monja shops. Monja is really hard to describe. The ingredients vary from fish eggs with cheese to beef with mochi. The main ingredients are the sauce and cabbage. Other than that the toppings are up to you. The tables at monja restaurants have a stove in the middle and you cook the monja yourself unless you ask for them to cook it for you. Our first monja was filled with fish eggs, cabbage, cheese, and mini dried shrimp. I am always very hesitant to eat fish eggs as I am told they are very salty and very fishy. My friends assured me the cooked eggs tasted nothing like fish so I tried it. The eggs were bright red to start with but once they were cooked they turned white it was very strange to look at. My friends were right though it didn't taste anything like fish it tasted like a a sauce and the cabbage gave it a nice crunch. I liked the second monja a lot more because it had beef in it. This time it had beef, the mini shrimps, cabbage, and mochi. Mochi is a paste that is made out of a rice cake and its really good. It is also cooked a special way that I can't really explain so here is a video of someone making it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRQdvxeC72w&feature=related

That's monja. Enjoy!