cool story, bro. 8/8
look at this delicious egg. Its uncooked and I sucked it straight out. delicious quail egg.
yeah so I took a picture of this yam powder cause it was lol.
check out this dealthy chaunr. it`s just a grilled pepper. perfect for indigestion
looks familiar huh? well it`s made the same way gyros are made I think… but it`s super chinese, and its also street food. tasty stuff, I must say, sauce is completely different though.
just some generic looking soup, stuff is delicious though =)
so this is yet another korean restaurants free appetizers. thats some delicious pumpkin soup, orange is always good 
yeah so with the appetizers, they gave us a pepper. I was just lolìng at the fact they give you such a giant pepper, who would ever eat this? I actually know who would love this =P.
yea so I started playing with this pepper, cause it was ridiculously big.
infact I brought it all the way to another restaurant where we ate some delicious japanese curry.
looks good eh =P we put a can of tuna we randomly bought to add some extra protein. It was super filling
can`t ever get sick of this cafeteria bread. It`s freshly made, and has a light tomato sauce ontop of it. I think its muslim but I`m not too sure. Anyways, super filling, super tasty =D
doesn`t this look straight out of anime? Eat this pretty regularly at this japanese restaurant really close to campus. has ramen noodles. it`s sometimes not too filling so I throw a bowl of rice in there. tehehe
this is just some random meats and vegetables thrown into whatever type of stock. Kind`ve a lame soup if you ask me
now this is some awesome meat. It taste exactly like chaunr without all the extra oilyness and stuff like that. Whatever coating they use is god like. its super salty though
love coffee? well you`ll love all the coffee flavoured snacks they have here =)
look at the brocolli to pepper ratio. welcome to beijing
this was crispy galore, tasted like a salt mine in my mouth
now if you`ve been to beijing, I know you were waiting for me to post this. this is pretty much like caramel apples, accept they use a local beijing fruit. it`s AWESOME but super sugary
this snack was the most suck snack i`ve had in all of china. this was a corn flavoured `sandwich` for some reason I thought it was apple flavoured, turns , the filling is corn.
I don`t know why but when i think of chinese restaurants, i always think of white people order spring rolls. well these are the first spring rolls i`ve eaten since I left canada. after three months. they`re alright. =)
so next up we have a bunch of pictures of the thanks giving we had. On thanks giving (american) an american student invited a bunch of forgien students to all celebrate thanks giving together. It was a huge success, we had dishes from all over the world. So basically me and Andre thought of buying a bunch of vegetables, because vegetables are always good, but Andre last minute had to go to shanghai, so I was left to cook by myself. Luckily some japanese girl helped me and pratically put together a nice vegetable soup using some chicken bones and stuff. It was a sucess =D
loved the hard work everyone put in. check the finnish dude.
quick picture of all the food, I sat next to an Australian dude. man they`re sense of humour is great.
we even managed to get the security guard in, and get him pretty drunk. he had a good time =)
and of course everybody ended up getting trashed and went clubbing. And what do people do when they`re drunk and have a sign? thats right make bad words.
after this event I really started to get a strong feeling of what the international student foreign community at Rendai is all about. It`s really magical. Having anything in common with anyone is automatically a reason to be friends here. Rendai, I have to say for the most part, i feel at times is a very magical place. I met another chinese dude, who was born in Japan, who came to Rendai to learn chinese. Me and him had a nice long conversation, in chinese. Me and him had a lot in common but I`m too lazy to go into detail. Well I hope you enjoyed my 8 part pictures and random facts about what i`ve been doing. Now its time for me to go back into scheduled noah mode. wake up, go to class , eat lunch, dance, eat dinner, study, sleep. repeat x5 days a week =)
one love guys, peace
Noah, I’m glad that you’re enjoying the international student experience. In my studies, it’s led to the strange result that my closest friends are ones who live the farthest from me.
In bringing cans of tuna to a restaurant meal, you’ve replicated one of my behaviours of life on the road. Sometimes when hotels have breakfast included, it’s all carbs and no proteins. Canned fish is really portable.
what a charming post
the frustrated ex-dietian in me is so proud for you picking a vegetable dish for Thanksgiving. We were in Montreal for Thanksgiving CDN.
Happy Vagina!
Ever watch lost in translation? I think that sums up student bonding quite well in Renda
Yeah Renda is a magical place, it’s also a magical part of your life though. 18-20 is the first two years of university, this is where a lot of kids go away for the first time and sorta find themselves. You got an extreme version and got to go super far away and find a totally different part of your soul out there. You’ve probably met some kids who change countries every two years, I learned in class that that can become your mindset if you do it for a long time. After two years in any country you start to itch and just bounce to the next one. The foreign student experience is proof that regardless of any language or cultural barrier, people at the end of the day are sorta just people. It’s a strange feeling when you can connect with a room full of people and everybody barely speaks the same language.