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Okay, so it's morning in the next day and we are going to get breakfast because they serve breakfast in the morning it comes with
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It we're gonna get either a western-style breakfast or a japanese-style breakfast. I make it the Japanese style. I'm not sure. I'm really hungry
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So let's go. I wanted to show you the backyard. It's so pretty
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Oh, wow, this one bit cooking like a look at this backyard. This is what we have
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but this is to ourselves right here, and then they said in the
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Fall there's lots of red and yellow leaves on these trees
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Oh, give us a little
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next to like two cats and chuckle pie and biscuits and
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Drinks and this Coca Cola drink is so cute. But we are getting ready to leave this beautiful place
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I'm so that one night is not enough
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But yeah, that's the door to the outside and it leads to the cutest little streets morning right now
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It's almost 8:00 8:00 a.m. And it's so quiet
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We have eggs and sauce a soy sauce natto
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Lettuce or salad salmon miso soup and rice
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And sausage and egg and I have my tiny coffee
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So I'm excited to serve this for breakfast. So natto. It's fermented soybeans
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It's really good for her like mostly women because it's good for your hormones. It's really healthy. You have a lot of protein
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Smells really bad. A lot of foreigners can't eat natto, and then it comes with like sauce and
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Like mustard hold this off. It's really sticky
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So you have to get the stickiness, I hope you take the sauce and you put it inside
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So you put the mustard inside and then you mix it like this and you wait till it gets kind of like foamy and white
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Looks so good. Maybe not to you guys if you come and try natto, I get a lot of foreigners
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Just don't like it because of the smell
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So I'm going to try the western-style breakfast and it's like a pita bread with like lettuce and ham it looks really good
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Very flaky
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It's only day two and I already attached to Nagahama on so many levels the nostalgia from my past was so real
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Going to high school in (Chiba?) and seeing the mountains. I used to wake up to every morning made me feel so emotional
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Little did I know I was about to experience an art that was so beautiful. It takes skill patience and hard work to master
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When I walked in they were making mochi. This was not what we're going to do today, but it was so enjoyable to watch
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Walking into the main room. I was in awe because I saw something that really piqued my interest
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This puppet theater is called boondock. Ooh, and this place I was taken to was a school for that
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Not only Japanese but foreigners from all around the world come for a summer program to learn this art and practice the Japanese language
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Not only that they can learn shamisen and other instruments here at the school as well
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Performances are done in Japan and in other parts of the worlds including where I'm from Detroit
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the students intensely learn and memorize a script at the same time as learning how to control the puppets if
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If You're interested in immersing yourself in Japanese culture
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This summer program is perfectly available to all of you as well. And all the information will be linked down below
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They have to be like a good team
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No fighting
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It takes three people to control one puppet you have to be in sync with everyone else which I thought was impressive
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Women the women character dolls, and the male character dolls have different movements in different ways of acting and
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it takes three people to
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Use these puppets. So it's a lot of teamwork
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Some of these puppets go back 200 years ago and have been used for many years
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Including the ones that turn into demon snakes like these ones you see here
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Okay
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Heavy it was my turn to try the puppets and I was surprised how heavy these puppets were
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Okay
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You have to really work together I
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Think the hardest part was trying to control the head and syncing up with your partner
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The hair on the puppets are real and each puppet is handmade and hand-painted
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Wow so many puppet
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Kilometer use male aggression suck seven eight
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Really good boy, oh boy dangerous
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for your safety
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No recent criterias are from this was made from a wedding
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The theater group offered to show us a bit of their performance having the female puppet climbed a ladder dramatically up a wall
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We just finished everything and it's really the most amazing thing
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I'm gonna link everything down below if you guys are interested in coming to Japan. They have a summer program
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I think it's two months and you can practice this kind of art here in Nagahama
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Which is a very countryside type place of Japan so you can experience Japan but also learn a new art
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which is amazing getting emotional right now because like
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Like this is like the Japan that I know
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so this is like the traditional side of it is everything that I fell in love with and
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It's just it's such an experience like I'm so happy right now
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Okay, I can't cry here
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Before leaving on to our next adventure I was able to try out the shamisen
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Like I said before they teach shamisen and the Japanese koto here as well
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It's snowing in Nagahama big snowflakes like
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It's so pretty though
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With all the temples and shrines and everything remote. Oh, geez
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Owain temple is a temple known as the Buddha for healing eye diseases the six metre high statue of G
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So is rarely shown to the public
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The story has been handed down that the frogs living in the temple saw many people suffering eye diseases and chose to become
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Scapegoats to the buddha by closing one eye by themselves so that everyone's valuable eyes can receive the protection of kinomoto. Chisel
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So a lot of people come to this temp specific temple
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You can see behind me a little bit
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to pray for healthy eyes
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If you're having trouble seeing or something like that people come to pray for that purpose and that's why the frogs over there
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Have one eye winking and the other one is open
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The winking frogs are available for purchase at the temple
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We need this in America
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Sake is a traditional alcoholic beverage in Japan it is made through fermentation like beer and wine
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Sake is made from rice a staple food in Japan
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It's an important part of Japanese lifestyle and culture. And today we're going to be doing some sake tasting here in Nagahama
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So this is like the fourth or fifth
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oldest sake Factory or liquor store in Japan
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It's about five hundred years old
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Okay, so I'm going to try my first sake so this one is dry and dry and fresh sake
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Sake is very easy to go down. It's not so difficult easy to drink
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This is pretty much the same thing that this one has a little bit of a thicker
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Taste or a feeling?
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Out of the two though, I think I like the first one better like it's good, but this one is my favorite.
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After tasting all the sake I definitely felt tipsy and 100% needed a bathroom
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So the manager took me to the back and showed me where they made the sake
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I'm glad I had asked for a bathroom because that was really cool to see
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This was definitely a fun
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Experience and I encourage any of you who love drinking to try out some sake tasting
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the shops link is down below
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So I tried to sake it today and it was really good
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I've never done sake tasting before so that was interesting and each one had a very distinct flavor and a distinct taste and
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aftertaste and everything the way that it's made is very particular and
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It sounds like they take a lot of time to make it's very tedious and it's still snowing. Oh my gosh
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So we're at a sort of camp place, I guess people go camping here
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So maybe not now but I think in the summer, it's very popular
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So we needed a place to escape from the cold and warm up. So we headed to a place called woody pal
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yoga a great place for skiing snowboarding camping and fishing
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This place also specializes in boar hotpot and deer meat if
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You're vegan or vegetarian. This may not be the best place for you to eat, but you can still enjoy the other activities
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Okay, so we're gonna have a nabe a hotpot hotpot are not my favorite. I love nothing. I
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Love it, and it's made with boar this hoe. This is not for vegetarians
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The nabhi comes in your own little individual hot pot filled with vegetables boar meat and kimchi. Miso type soup broth served hot
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the fat on the boar meat was actually pretty soft and sweet tasting I was surprised and
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Of course, Japan also has its side dishes to go along with your meal. Okay, so I'm gonna try the first dish which is the
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Deer this is like deer soup
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Yeah, it tastes like, um any other meat
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in between like tough and soft?
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This is hot pot boar. I'm going to try some of the boar meat, and it comes with vegetables and soup, sort of broth.
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Look at this mushroom! It's so beautiful.
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It's very tender
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There's so much flavor in one little pot
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So we just finished our meal and it was so good and
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Now I guess I'm going fishing.
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I Haven't fished in a long time, but I was really excited to relive my childhood and try again at yoga Lake. Okay, so I changed
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Into this leg ski jacket and I'm going fishing
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We were introduced to a professional fishermen who would help us catch the fish today
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I'm excited
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We'll be they catch the fish and then you eat it as tempura so you can cook it as tempura
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Hopefully I catch lots of food
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They're counting on me, oh no
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The pressure was on I needed to catch us some dinner for tonight
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But the best thing about this experience was the scenery and nature you're surrounded by despite the rainy weather
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It was a gorgeous sight to see
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And we're gonna start fishing soon.
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Lots of kids and adults going fishing so it's fun for the whole family
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Fishing in Japan is still very popular today and a lot of families do this as a pastime
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But you have to have so much patience. Just putting the bait on the hooks took such a long time
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So many hooks on this
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Okay
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Will I catch anything?
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I hope
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It took me about 45 minutes before I started to catch anything and we had to move around the dock to find the best spots
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To catch the fish
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I'm too impatient for this
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After the first fish I caught I started to catch a lot more am I an expert Fisher yet?
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We just finished fishing and we caught a lot of fish and I was saying that the fishing poles that they have are so
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Long for such tiny fish in each season. They have different types of fish in this season
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They have the small ones. And so now we're gonna make tempura out of this
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We were greeted at a small mom-and-pop shop that specialized in turning of the fish that we caught into tempura to eat
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We caught this fish
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Really good
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We headed back to the station in the evening and we were so grateful to have been given this opportunity
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To see all that Nagahama had to offer this was a trip. This was a trip I didn't know I needed.
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I am so lucky to have been able to immerse myself in the culture of Nagahama within (Chiba?) prefecture
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The thing I love about this country is at each place. You see has its own separate culture within the Japanese culture
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I find it so intriguing and it keeps me wanting more
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This is why I fell in love with Japan and I can't wait to explore more of this beautiful country with you guys
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Thank you for watching the very first installment of girl abroad missions
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