I am still in Japan!!!

I haven't been deported or anything!

On Sunday I met up with my professor and traveled to Sapporo for the conference. Sapporo is a really pretty city - it's comparable to Ottawa in size, whereas Tokyo is like Toronto x 1,000,000. The temperature here is also way more comfortable. Tokyo was SO HUMID! I thought Ottawa was bad but Tokyo was just insane!

So far I have eaten a lot of delicious stuff. The convenience stores sell all kinds of sushi rolls and rice balls that come in this amazing packaging; the nori and the rice are in separate compartments, but if you open them right they just automatically come together in this crazy self-wrapping way from the way that the plastic slides between them. Clearly I can't explain it well but suffice to say that the Japanese are light years ahead of Canada in the rice snack packaging department.

The green tea here tastes really different and doesn't have that weird cigarette smoke aftertaste that some tea at home does. Did I mention that I once read a paper about food authenticity that found that a lot of packaged green tea was like 80% grass (i.e. The stuff on your lawn)??? That may explain that weird flavour lol.

Yesterday I was mainly just at the conference (but I went for a walk and ate lunch in a park where there was a huge flower festival!), but today we have a conference field trip. We're going to the Sapporo brewery and to a horse park. The Sapporo beer that is sold in Canada is actually brewed in Guelph, and our student councils are always organizing tours, so I think it's a bit funny that I will go to the Sapporo brewery in Sapporo before I go to the one that is literally 15 minutes from where I live.

In conclusion, I have taken a billion pictures but I don't have a way to transfer them to my tablet, so here is a picture I took of the Rockies from the plane.

I looked really hard for sheep and / or sasquatches but there were none to be seen.

PS Japan needs daylight savings time because it is not quite 4 am and the sun is basically up.
PPS I thought I was totally not jetlagged, but it is not quite 4 am and I am wide awake lol.