Gram's Japanese experience

Mom is trying very hard to learn the answers to 3 easy questions:

1. Where did you live?

Akasaka

2. Where was the temple?

Asakusa

3. Where are we now?

Osaka

These words are like tongue twisters for mom and on a good day she get's all 3 on the first try. On a bad day... well, it's a bad day.

Mom has had to go back to basics since arriving in Japan. Simple things are often complicated or are often different each time you try to use another one. Take for example, the toilet. Seems easy enough. Do your thing and flush. Well, there are so many buttons and knobs and radars, it is not always apparent which mechanism does the flushing and once you have figured it out, surely the hoosy whatsy will be located in a different spot on the next toilet. 

Walk on the left, pass on the right in Tokyo, stay a week and you figure it out. Travel to Osaka and then you need to walk on the right and pass on the left. Walk in the middle anywhere and you are bound to get run over. 

Turning on the shower.. we usually schedule a lesson beforehand. Needless to say, I am having a ball! hee hee! 

We read in a pamphlet that Friday is No-my-cah-day! This means we will get a one day pass for Y600 instead of Y800. N0-my-cah-day = No my car day, ... not the day for me to drive around (doesn't matter we don't have a car), the subway pass one day pass is only Y600! woo hoo!!