I don’t have much time because I’m about to go on the Fall Field Trip, which will take us AKPeople to Hiroshima, Miyajima (the place with the torii in the water) and a tiny town called Kurashiki which is supposed to be very pretty. I’m looking forward to sleeping on the six hour bus ride.
So apparently Japanese people love Krispy Kreme doughnuts. A Krispy Kreme opened up in Shijo station in Kyoto roughly two weeks ago, and every time I have been to Shijo there has been an extremely long line to get Krispy Kremes.
Yesterday, after Japanese, I was thinking what I should do with my time, because I had 3 hours until I was set to go see a movie for class. It came to me that I should wait in line for Krispy Kremes. A friend and I had lunch first, then we went to go wait in line for Krispy Kremes. We must have gone at a good time of day because we only waited for maybe ten minutes before we got our doughnuts.
Before going on this adventure I had asked a couple people if they wanted any and I had received several requests, so I fulfilled those, and decided to get a dozen more for people to eat at the movie theatre; I was feeling generous. So we got our doughnuts and headed back to Imadegawa with way more time on our hands than we planned, so I went around delivering doughnuts to those who had requested them. I didn’t think of it as delivering doughnuts, I thought of it as delivering happiness.
You see, pretty much every doughnut made in Japan is a cake-style doughnut, by which I mean the consistency is pretty cake-like, and there are some that aren’t like that, but they’re not like american doughnuts. So delivering these doughnuts, which were the closest to an american doughnut you can get in Japan, was very special.
Some other things happened yesterday like going to see this movie based on the book we read, going to an english pub, in Japan, yeah, kinda strange. Also, my host family loves Krispy Kremes and I had some left over, so they were excited. Score. Ok, got a few things to do before the trip.
~Shimon
