Food

= Food =


 * The food in Japan is amazing, lots of variety and beautifully presented. In the seven weeks I spent at Reitaku Mizunami School I didn't have the same meal twice.
 * Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in the school cafeteria and it runs like clock work. You will get the idea in no time.
 * The girls in my dormitory went to a Japanese restaurant in town a couple of times for a meeting, a bit of an eye opener and great fun. I think the school paid for this, I remember being ready to pay but they said it was okay. A very memorable night.
 * Most the times the meals you eat are traditional Japanese meal, occasionally though they have western style meals, such as a piece of steak with some chips and potato. Sometimes cereal and toast is served as an option at breakfast time. The majority of the time the meals are all Japanese though. You have choice to drink, either water, cold green tea, hot green tea or a type of tea from a plant root. All very delicious once you are used to the taste.
 * On Sunday the cafeteria is closed for lunch, so during breakfast an allocated year group in our dormitory (they take it in turns) collect all the elements of lunch and take them back to the dormitry, where they are neatly stacked into 24 piles, 1 for each person, then it is up to you to collect your own lunch for that day.
 * The only thing I really missed was fresh fruit, very hard to find. The students I spoke to were amazed when I explained to them what fruits were available in our local supermarkets.
 * Have snacks in your dorm ready to share, not sure about the boys but the girls do this quite a bit late at night.

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