Japanese Vocabulary kyuushoku・給食: School lunch kujira・鯨: Whale tabe-chatta!・食べちゃった: oops! I regretfully ate it! 食べちゃった! Well, not Willy, but a relative of his, the minke whale. It was a cultural experience!!! I had to! On Wednesday, January 30th, the kyuushoku menu revealed an interesting entree, underlined with squiggly lines...くじらたつたあげ, kujira tatsuta-age....in other words, fried whale. Ick. Before coming to Wakayama even, I had read that they were known for whale watching...but apparently there is a bit more than just whale watching going on! I had heard the rumors from other JETs that sometimes kujira appeared on the lunch menu, and finally after six months of anticipation, my time had come...or rather, the whales time had come. I had decided....to eat, or not to eat? So after an intense bout of internal struggle, I a
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