The first week I had the pleasure of staying with Toshiro Shimoya and his family. "Tosh" and his wife, Yuko, and daughter Mai, share a wonderful home on the site of the family business - a lumberyard and homebuilding supply company. Check it out at www.tomoku-wood.com. Being my first week in Japan, the family had the opportunity to offer many of my "Japan Firsts" such as a sashimi restaurant featuring a non-stop conveyor of raw fish, shrimp burger at McDonalds, and my first raw egg. One evening even included a trip out for "shabu shabu" which involves cooking pork and vegetables in boiling water. Delicious!
Yuko also offered me a terrific lesson in Japanese handwriting. Considering my lack of talent with English handwriting, I figured it couldn't be any worse. According to the family, it was readable. Thus, I can officially proclaim that my Japanese handwriting is better than my English handwriting.
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