Family

Aki's aunt Minae met us at the station with her cute daughter Momojan. Everyone in Aki's family greated us warmly last night. His grandma reminds me a lot of my G-ma as well. It's funny that the feeling of a grandma's house is a bit universal. I feel really comfortable here.

For dinner, we all sat around an improvised barbecue and chatted in a hillarious confusion riddled translation conversation (accurate translation is not something Aki feels that he excels at.). Somehow I made Aki's aunt Michiko laugh so hard she had soy sauce coming out her nose (see photo below). I was a bit expressive perhaps. Nose soy aside, it's better to be laughing a lot than sitting in awkward silence (aparently, the Japanese from thsi village in Shikoku are not known for their silence, awkward or otherwise).