More snow

18 Feb 2014  

So today is the first P-day that we are relaxing in the apartment for. I'm taking the chance to make some pasta sauce because it takes like 5 hours to simmer. I'm making the sauce for a variety of reasons one is that one of our friend’s grandfather died and I thought it might be nice to take his grandmother some pasta and sauce. The other is that Japan doesn't make  good pasta sauce apparently and with two xc runners in the house we really want some good pasta.

This week has been slow. Things kinda get jumbled during transfer week due to a lot of preparation for leaving. Also we had another snow storm and that was kinda crazy. It rained right after and made the snow really heavy; we've been walking past a lot of collapsed sheds and garages lately. This weather is really unusual for Tokyo. Usually they'll have a big snow storm about every 20 years. They've had two the past two weeks and another forecasted for Wednesday. It's really hard on the city, and there have been sirens nonstop the day during and day after the storm. So lately we've been shoveling a lot of snow for people. It's really weird to see how some people take care of the snow since they aren't really used to it. A lot of people hose down the snow, you also see a lot of people throwing their snow in the middle of the road. 

Needless to say this week me and my companion are pretty sore from shoveling :D Speaking of companions, my new companion Elder Huntsman is awesome. He is a way cool guy and a way hard worker. I'm looking forward to this week and see how well we can work with each other. Anyway I need to get back to cooking.  Hope everyone is having an awesome week.  Elder Davies