Oh dear me... It has been far too long since I last updated this thing! My bad!
Well, to start things off, we have been having a really great time on the DTS and thankfully it is not all work and no play!
A few weeks ago, the staff (myself included) decided to play a little food game with the students. We took 5 different kinds of Japanese food and made two good versions of it and one "poison" version. We then split into three teams, two student teams and one staff team, and had two guests judges (our staff member Bob's wife Sachiko and a ex-YWAMer named Nobuko). Then, we sent one person from each team up to eat the food. Nobody knew who was gonna get what and you had to eat everything on your plate while keeping a straight face. Then then teams and judges would all guess who they thought they person with the poison dish was. The more people you could fool, the more points you got. If you couldn't eat everything or you threw up, you lost points. It was a pretty close game, but thanks to yours truly (NOBODY thought I had the bad dish) my team won! Hooray! It was a great night and we even got to eat some of Nobuko's GOOD cooking after the game and got an etiquette lesson from Sachiko. And while my mouth was still full of the gross egg, seafood, hot mustard and vinegar taste of the Japanese "pudding" I had to eat, I was too close to throwing up to even eat any dinner! Haha!
PS - The picture to the left is that of our staff team as drawn by our resident artist Shige-kun. We call it Gacha-Us. Can you guess which one I am??