Day 26

7-8-08

LISTS! (aka Nothing Important Happened Today)

Only Foods I've Actually Owned Up to Disliking:
1. Fish eggs.
2. Sashimi.
3. Raw tomatoes.
4. Hamburgers.
5. Natto.
Am working on admitting my deep-set loathing of mayonnaise, but there's a possibility my family would kick me out of the house, judging on how they bathe all their food in the accursed stuff.

Food Observation: As with love, which foods you like and which you don't follows no logical rhyme or reason. I used to think I liked bland food, but I realized, while eating a pile of raw ginger drenched with straight-up lemon juice, that that was not really true anymore. And anyway, mayonnaise is bland.

Top Hints on Overcoming the Language Barrier:
5. Try hard! Use as much of the language as possible, and resort to English with a heavy accent if you don't know something.
4. If you ask people to repeat something, they tend to repeat it in English.
3. Ignore grammar.
2. Form one word sentences.
1. Give up on language altogether. Resort to exaggerated facial expressions, hand gestures and emotive sound effects.