The polls are in! Daily life by a 'landslide'!

 Alright, so since daily life won the poll, and my Dad's been nagging me about putting up some photos of what it looks like at the fish market, I decided I'd kill two birds with one stone and talk a little about what it's like at my part time job. Obviously, I'm not going to complain about it, even though I absolutely love whining for absolutely no reason, the truth is I'm lucky to have the job thanks to Uchiyama-sensei (one of my lecturers at UQ). It's challenging and all my colleagues are really nice.

激安ーSO CHEAP, SO FIERCE.

HOWEVER! JUST BECAUSE I SAID I CAN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT THE JOB IT DOESN'T MEAN I CAN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT THE PAY! Yeah, so basically I worked 59.5 hours, and my pay ended up being about 47,600 yen. Now, first of all, I'm grateful for any money that comes my way, but if it wasn't such good experience, I wouldn't be caught dead working anywhere for the equivalent of $10AUD an hour.

Anyway, as you can see on the right, it looks crazy delicious, this is our general display. This is actually at the end of the day when we've sold most of the sushi. The sign reads "Time Service, fiercely cheap, 100~" Normally it's more expensive but almost everything gets reduced to 100 yen near the end because we can't keep it overnight.

The smaller sign says deep fried puffer fish from 500 yen.
(That's whole blowfish by the way, ranging from the size of my fist, to larger than my outstretched hand)

唐戸市場〜おいでませ！！！

The blowfish can be seen in the bottom left corner of this picture. They're pretty huge and won't kill you... I think. The lady with her side to us is standing where I usually work.

So in her place I basically play the role of the crazy man on the subway trying to sell you his time machine, except in this circumstance I'm the crazed foreigner peddling deep-fried seafood at the fish market. I stand in the same spot for about 5-10 hours every Saturday, Sunday and public holiday for 800 yen an hour. If you asked me what I envisioned exchange in a foreign country to be, this isn't it, but that's what makes it so much more awesome. I really feel like I'm living the life of a Japanese uni student, I get to bitch about my part-time job and everything. In reality, not only is it great Japanese practice but it is also excellent for my communication skills. Of course there are times, like when I was almost molested by a drunk Japanese lady in her 40's who apparently wants to go to Thailand, where it can a bit awkward, but it is great experience nonetheless.


Life is an adventure, live it.
Anyway, cliches aside, I have work from 7am tomorrow so I'm off to bed. Love you all <3