The Little Things

This week I felt that I am truly becoming Japanese. It is the little things –I bought slippers for my bathroom. Every bathroom I’ve been in has had slippers so far, excluding public washrooms. And I can’t have a lunch without rice. Hitomi came over for lunch on Monday. I was planning to make omelets but I couldn’t handle the thought of not having rice. My tummy would miss it. So we had omelets and rice. Hitomi said that the meal was very "Japanese".

I know that there is so much that I still do not understand. The language is still a huge barrier. In many ways I will always be an outsider. But these little things give me hope.

Word Up: Gaijin -foreigner