Fart

First off, I saw an ostrich egg today. It was 3200 yen. Wow. So, today one of our coworkers offered to take us on a little driving excursion. You may have already noticed this but I'm noticing now and I remember from last time I was in Osaka, they like to experience new things in their own country just as much as we do. She said she looked this place up on the internet, and that's how we ended up going there. One of the main thing I noticed on this drive is that I really like Ehime...it's beautiful. It has mountains and trees...and I feel like there are always flowers blooming. It's actually really interesting to me that so many Japanese people like Hawai'i so much because we hardly ever have flowers blooming. In fact, in many ways, parts of Ehime look a lot prettier (than parts of O'ahu anyway). Maybe it's just our weather. Anyway, I would say one of the odd highlights of the day is when our cooworker smelt something bad from outside and immediately blamed me and said that I farted. I didn't actually know the word for fart, and I kind of forgot it already...but it's nice to see people warming up so fast that they can say that kind of stuff! Today really motivated me to get more on it with the language so that I can laugh more...I'll bet you don't often think about how important humor is, most of us take it for granted...but here, I don't get to laugh at much because I don't understand and it makes me sad sometimes. But, I'm going to pull through. (^_^)