Hey
ho
a
week has passed since my birthday (turned 24), but didn’t find any time to
update... I had off on my birthday, but all in all I will work 28
days out of June’s 30 days. You can guess how much I am looking
forward to the end of this month ! I have no idea what July will be
like... The hotel restaurant I work for is short on staff. Yesterday
I was basically doing everything ALONE. Luckily, it was pretty empty
and most of the time no customers at all. Of course I know most
things by now, it's not like I can't be alone... but if a customer
has a special request or a difficult question, I usually don't know
how to answer. Also, I don't know how to handle the cashier and
honestly speaking, I don’t want to know! I really don’t want to
take any responsibility about money/financial matters. At least not
how things are at the moment, considering I do not have any sort of
employment contract with them and my salary is paid cash. In case
anything goes wrong, I am probably fucked.
So
on my birthday, I got up late and then went to Osaka in order to meet
Lisa. It was a rainy day, so we decided to stay in some large
underground mall in Honmachi and also went for coffee in Doutor. We had
some confusion about where to meet up and ended up meeting quite
late. Lisa, sorry! Time passed by quickly and soon it
was time to rush to Nippombashi, where we would meet up with my
boyfriend.
We
went to an Izakaya. But not quite an ordinary one...
http://www.zauo.com/
At Zauo you can
rent a fishing rod, bait and then start fishing. Right away from your
seat (at least in our case). It's not really a big deal to catch a
fish, since there are plenty of fish in a small pool, but it's still
fun. Once you caught one, you have to decide how the fish will be
prepared and then it will be served to you. Of course you have to pay
for the fish (price varies from the kind of fish you catch). I caught
a Tai (sea bream) and of course requested it as sashimi (raw)! BTW
whenever a customer catches a fish, the staff will ask for your name
and start shouting your name, some paroles and beat the drums.
Basically „celebrate“ that you got a fish.
We
also ordered some other food. I ate an mentaiko dish... I think it
was my first time eating mentaiko and also my first time to have
Ochazuke (you have to pour lots of dashi broth over your rice).
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After
that we walked around in Nippombashi and took purikura at round 1...
and headed home at a very reasonable time.
Except
for going out on Sunday with my co-workers from IKEA I haven't done
anything special. I am busy enough with my working schedules....
So
on Sunday we went to an Yakitoriya, an Izakaya specialized in serving
chicken dishes. Naturally we had mostly chicken dishes, including
chicken hearts (I love chicken hearts). The most special dish was
probably the raw horse meat (it was at least the most expensive one). At such outings it is common to split the bill even. Everyone ended up paying 3500 Yen (35euro), which was considered "cheap" by the others. I thought it was a lot and basically my limit. But yeah it is cheap by japanese standards and Izakaya nights usually end up with huge bills. Unfortunately I didn’t take many photos that evening :(
I end my entry with a sighting of bad german at DAISO. In the stationery section I saw this notebook:
