I’m sitting here at my favorite bakery called SUN, literally a 3 minute walk from my house and ironically is mostly in the shade nestled between many buildings. Don't every let anyone tell you the Japanese are skinny because they eat... the bread in this country is out of control and amazing. I'm mean look at that picture, chocolate and butter on bread!! Anyway, I’m supposed to be study my Japanese. I told myself that I could have a pastry if I spent time studying. That’s working out well (insert sarcasm). Actually it's quite dangerous to have a bakery this good, this close to our house. The weather today is a perfect fall day, not too hot but quite crisp and I’d honestly rather do anything than study Japanese. So writing it is, while eating a pastry…that counts as productive, right? A few weeks ago a met a tiny but mighty, in my book, Japanese lady by the name of Kato san. She told me she’ll be 90 this January using the old way of counting. So in Japan, and some other a...
