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Hayley- What do I do on the weekends

What do I do on the weekends? ~In pictures

I take subways and take pictures of subways.

I try new things, like eating "fast food" Japanese style.  This is a ramen shop.  Press the name of the food you want, insert your money, and you get a little ticket . . .
 
A closer view, for those interested



And a menu with pictures: very important if you can't read Japanese characters!


 

 After choosing what you want and getting a ticket, step inside the little shop. 

And within a few minutes, you can have this:


Or this: I opted for a dish without an egg!

Back to weekend activities . . .  I visit new places; this is near Asakusa.  


And I take pictures of interesting buildings


I attend LEX Fellow meetings . . . 

. . . Waiting to introduce myself in Japanese.  It was my first time to do a long introduction, and at the point this picture was taken, I was praying I remembered everything!  I did, and it went very well.


Back to taking pictures . . . 

This is in Asakusa: a popular tourist attraction.  

There are shops where you can buy all sorts of things.


And there's a temple

Changing gears: a double-decker train . . . I had to take a picture!

A train platform; I spend a bit of time in and around train stations on my commute.


Several weekends ago, I started learning calligraphy.  (I think that's the right thing to call it.)   

My finished product: it's the Japanese character for family, kazoku.  The smaller characters on the left are my name written in katakana.

The one on the left says "family", and the one on the right says "rejoice."

Well, that's all for now.  I haven't included pictures from the past couple of weekends; those will be posts in and of themselves!

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