Day 8 "Something Else"

Ahhh nothing like a jolly fat man and another one sitting next to him.

This statue is placed at the top of a hill in "colonial western Japan."  Let me explain...

In Japan at the top of a moderately large hill (I remember this because it was annoying enough to remember trekking up that damn thing) there is a section where one can only assume that European settlers dwelled.  It is a place of German engineering, French sty lings, and maybe a tiny bit of American sass.  The whole thing at first rather bored me.  In America I've already been learning about Europe for most my life.  I especially don't want to learn about it half a world away on my continent.  I say "my" like I own all of Asia.  Regardless I still had fun.  The little square had a whole bunch of these statues for apparently no reason other than aesthetics.  Most of them looked like jolly black men from the jazz age.  This is the only evidence I can find of American influence.  Everything else was European.

This house is another fine example.  Almost doesn't look like Japan does it?  You could hardly tell unless you look really close.  1) There are mountains in he background and the whole area is on a slant.  Japan is not a very flat area.  It's geography is more like that of a teenager going through puberty who is very fond of peanuts and chocolate.  If you don't know what I'm talking about it has been far too long since you've been a teenager.  2) My mother and I are eating ice cream, green tea ice cream.  Only in Japan lemme tell you.  It's kind of like only in American can you find fried ice cream.  I don't think they have fried ice cream anywhere else in the world.  Kinda makes you a little sad to think that we are such a fat nation that even ice cream, something that melts at room temperature can be fried and enjoyed by us.  Now that's innovation!