the japanese and their oddfangled snacks

oh wait wait I thought of another thing to write about.
so as all of you /should/ know, being in Mrs. Musick's class, the Japanese class is selling Japanese snacks to raise money. Right, right.

To some of you, the current snacks may be weird, and to others, that stuff may be completely normal.
I mean, Ramune. A neat bottle sealed by a glass marble. People seem to be disappointed when they find out you can't take the marble out, though. (Unless you break it!) But I like seeing people amazed by what the marble does and stuff.

Pocky. Mrs. Musick says chocolate-covered pretzels sticks, but I just call them biscuits because they're not salty. (Which is good, because I don't like salt + chocolate. I don't even like pretzels.) Not too odd looking since they do look like chocolate pretzels, they just look oddly skinny compared to those. And if you happen to let it melt, you have to eat it in a huge blob. I am speaking from experience.

Safe to say, those two snacks are on the normal side of the Japanese snack spectrum!
There are weirder things out there in Nihon.

Let's show you what you're missing out on, hm?
In no particular weirdness order.
First up!!

Green tea chocolate sticks. To most Westerners, any sort of snack that has tea in it is already odd. In the Asian world, green tea anything is kind of super common. I've never tasted this, but I have tasted other green tea products (ice cream!). Mostly it just tastes like green tea. I don't like green tea myself unless there's a bunch of sugar, so I normally describe the taste as usually "plant". I wonder if the chocolate would change anything, though?

Next!
Pancake-flavored Kit Kat bars.

For some reason unknown to me, Kit Kat has become weirdly popular in Japan. They have all sorts of weird flavors. America, we have like, 2, I think? White chocolate and milk chocolate. Japan has things varying from Green tea (told you they make green tea everything in Asia), cheesecake, and Sakura/cherry blossoms (yes, flower-flavored kit kat).  I would want to try them all, but the more limited/rare flavors are expensive.

つぎ！(next!)

Tomato Chocolate. I don't even. Apparently Meiji is trying to get children to like the flavors of vegetables. Good luck with that!

つぎいいいい (nextttttttttttttt)

Yeah, what it looks like. Rose-flavored gum. The Japanese make several flower-flavored things...

P.S. My sister bought some Sakura bubblegum at the airport in Japan. It tastes exactly how it's labeled. Like flowers! XD Weird experience, but I didn't hate it. Seems like a flavor that could get addicting after a while. Weh, I want some now.

I think I will end it here. But I'll leave you with a list of other Japanese treats I've heard of but am too lazy to find pictures of:

1. Any kind of seafood? Name it, and they'll likely have an ice cream flavor of it. I've seen Sardine ice cream, octopus and squid ice cream... yeah. Kinda. Blegh.
2. Soy sauce flavored pretzels. Sounds salty.
3. Sakura green tea. Wow, that's like super Japanese.
4. Chocolate ramen. But isn't really ramen. false advertising! shame, I would have wanted to try it, too.

Oh look, a list of different kit kat flavors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_kat#Varieties
Check out how many are from Japan, woah. Aloe vera? Bubblegum? There are Calpis and Ramune too, lol. (Calpis is another Japanese drink.)

Musings on future happenings?

Well I owe my blog a post for last week actually, but I'll write this week's after my silly ACT test! That's on Sunday. I am only slightly deathly afraid! I mean, that one test isn't going to determine my future. I just know it'll help a lot if I do well. So I'm a bit er...

Scatterbrained these last two weeks. Awful. @A@
But!
Hopefully I will do well on it. No. I will do well on it, and I'll cry of happiness then go and thank my best friend for paying for my study book by drawing her pictures until my right hand falls off.

Then go back to studying for the normal SAT. Ugh. How will I do it.......
Mariah (or was it Mrs. Schneider?) asked me how I'm doing it all. Taking like 11 classes, I mean. I don't really know. I just am...? I am dying under it all, though. But it's all for the good of things, right?

Hmm... I'm sort of sad I only got to stay at Homelink so long. Only a year and a half-ish. And I'm going to college out of state (well at least I hope so, my top colleges are both in Massachusetts so we'll see), I wouldn't be able to visit often either.... probably just... fly back to bring Yuka & crew to Anime Central. -shrugs- Depends on the schedule! But I'll miss everyone. ; ~ ;

Speaking of Anime Central...
Why is the date this year so wonky? Why you do this coordinators. It's from April 27-29 I believe, which is yes, a weekend, but not a weekend where I'm already on summer vacation. Which worries me.

Then guess what else?!

Prom is on April 26.

And I'm required to go to prom, says my mom. And I kinda do wanna go so I can get my hanfu. A hanfu is a traditional Chinese garb worn typically by noble females in China during the Han Dynasty. Hence HANfu. It's a beautiful garment and I have wanted one forever but they're expensive, so I figured, hey, girls spend a bunch on their prom dresses right? So could I be a bit different and spend about the same amount on a lovely piece of clothing I would use more than just once?

Because yes, I think my mom would let me go to prom in a hanfu. Well, when I asked, she sort of maybe-nodded. Yuka said I would stand out but it's just one night right? And my hanfuuuu! Want so badly. Although Mariah said, and I quote, I would "look hot". 8| What. Definitely not what I was going for, but thanks nevertheless. What I want is elegance and oriental-ity I guess. `w` Use my looking of Chinese to my advantage! Then maybe once prom is done I will take the outfit and do pretty photoshoots in it when I have confidence. Yes.

( this is the hanfu I showed Mariah. XD I would get one that didn't really drag on the floor, though )

I seem to have gotten off subject...

But if prom is April 26 then that means we have to probably miss the Friday con day. Not so bad, but still my sads, I don't like missing any con days.... But ah well. Saturday is where it's at anyways. My sister doesn't know who to go as, but I'm probably gonna still choose Taiwan & maybe one other character. Perhaps Hikari from Pokemon if my sister wants to go as Touko that badly. :3c

( Hikari is the one under Spring, Touko the one under Autumn ~ )

And there's my 20 minutes!

Hooray~

Time to sleep or something...