Small cars and suckers

I took this picture the other day. The cars here are SO TINY!! Anyways, Monday and Tuesday have been pretty slow days. Monday after school John took Carly and I to "Book Off." It's a store where they sell used books, DVDs, CDs, and video games and supplies. He said it was close, but it took us about 45 minutes to walk there, so I'm thinking it was close to 2 miles!! Of course that meant that we had to walk 2 miles back! It was a good workout, but I definitely didn't have the right shoes for that. haha. Anyways, on the way back of course it was cold and started raining! It wasn't too bad though, it was actually a little refreshing!

Today I got into an interesting conversation with Mr.Yamaguchi. Apparently in Japan everyone takes a shower at night. Their theory is that they want to be clean when they get into their beds. Mr.Yamaguchi was like, "You have so much dirt on you from your day. How could you sleep like that?" I told him I just like to be refreshed in the morning with a shower and it wakes me up! We also had a funny talk because only in the midwest do we say, "sucker." He learned most of his English in London and there they call them "lollies or lollipops." Interesting stuff! He told me that in Japan it's the same thing; there are many different dialects within each prefecture.