February 26, 2016
JET teacher Teresa's February Blog Post!
�ɤ���� �ƥ쥵�Ǥ�! Hi everyone. It��s Teresa.
How was your Valentine��s Day? Back in America, I would usually receive chocolates and a bouquet of flowers from my partner, but here in Japan, things are opposite.
As you may know, Valentine��s Day in Japan is different in many, many ways. For one, females give chocolates to their partner as well as to their male colleagues! That means there are multiple categories of chocolate-giving. Here are the top 3 famous ones:
Honmei choco (��̿���祳) - given to the one you have feelings for
Giri choco (�������祳) - given to your colleagues
Tomo choco (ͧ���祳) - given to friends
Luckily, my partner still has his American ways, so I received two boxes of green tea chocolate�� yumm
Moreover, we went to an onsen for the Valentine��s Day weekend!
For around 8,000 yen, we had a bus drive us up to Kusatsu, the famous town known for its natural hot springs in Gunma, and our lodging for the weekend.
The cream of the crop, you��re wondering? A buffet dinner and a buffet breakfast. I ate all I could and more because I have ��ʢ (betsu bara - another stomach).
The town celebrated Valentine��s too by putting up illuminations and heart-shaped lights. Of course, I took a picture in front of one.
Cheers!