Week 11: Rain and pie

Yay! It was a short week thanks to Marine Day! The big news of the week: there was a bird party on the lawn outside my window!

I also found the graveyard of dead bugs left by one of the giant spiders who lives in the front entrance. Yes, there are several. I think they have eggsacs ;_____; If I was braver / taller I would get rid of them, but alas!

The spider is that silvery thing up there. Blargh!

My only adventure during the week was to pay a bill at the bank. I think I did a much better job this time; the first time I tried to pay a bill, I pretty much just handed the bank teller my bank card and the bill and looked sad until she helped me. I was surprised when she withdrew the exact amount from my account in paper (and coin) money and used that to pay the bill?? I had expected the actual transfer to happen electronically, I guess. I never pay bills at the bank in Canada, so maybe this is normal, but it seemed weird to me.This time I cut out the middle man and just handed the teller the exact change and the bill. This worked much better!

I didn't go back to Japanese lessons this week. Terrible! I have no good excuse, other than that it was raining really hard. But I think I need to go back, because this week, on THREE separate occasions, when people asked me if I had something (e.g. a store loyalty card, a phone number at the bank, etc), I said "no, I have it," instead of "no, I don't have it," which obviously caused some confusion LOL. I have no idea why I have started doing this. Maybe I put my brain on upside down. 

Because it was so rainy, other than a little shopping, I stayed in for a good chunk of time this weekend. When I did go out, I found some amazing sights.

There was a big line if you wanted your picture with these sheep mascots.

I also found an amazing store that sells all kinds of pop culture stuff. I should subtitle this post: "things I should have bought."

I just realized that that shirt says "I learned everything I know on the streets." Dang. I should have bought that shirt!

The Sailor Moon section was playing the Sailor Moon theme song on loop!

Finally, because I was staying in, I decided to do some baking. Here is a helpful tutorial!

How to make a pie in Sapporo!

1. Realize that you have a bunch of (expensive / soon-to-expire) fruit in your fridge.

   

   Cherries and haskap and apples, oh my!

2. Decide to make a pie.
3. Realize that you don't own a pie pan.
4. Improvise a pie pan from a cake pan and some rice to bring the height up to reasonable pie height.
5. Remember that you don't own a rolling pin and improvise with a bottle of apple cider vinegar.
6. Finally get your pie in the oven.
7. Burn pie because burner in your tiny oven is like 10 cm from the top of your super-tall pie.
8. When pie is finished, break pie into pieces trying to save it from its ricey prison. 
9. Decide pie is unsuitable for human consumption ;__; So much for bringing a delicious pie to school!
10. Freeze pie.
11. Eat slices of frozen, hideous, but surprisingly delicious pie in shame. 

It used to have a lattice top, until the top exploded.

Happy baking!