Balance

Even though I am just a spectator, I find Keizo's rugby games exhausting. The game itself is 80 minutes long, plus a 10-15 minute half time. Getting to the ground isn't hard, but requires a walk to the station, a train ride, transferring to the subway and then taking a bus, which takes about an hour and a half each way.

Last week, it was particularly cold with intermittent snow flurries (See giant thermometer!) Keizo's team won though, and my friend Hannah I spent an hour in Starbucks afterwards to regain feeling in our fingers and toes, making 90 minutes on the freezing cold bleachers much less painful.

When I finally made my way back to the apartment, neither Keizo nor I really felt like leaving again to pick up dinner supplies. So we called "Pizza California" and had them deliver two medium (American small) pizzas and some nice, hot and greasy tater tots on the side and plopped ourselves in front of the TV for the evening.

Teriyaki chicken pizza on the top, and Italian sausage on the bottom.

After spending Sunday night in all out couch potato mode, Monday's dinner needed to be something a bit more nutritious. We focused on vegetables and made eggplant champuru when we couldn't find goya (bitter melon) and put some sweet potatoes in the tajine cooker with a little bit of butter. The eggplant turned the rest of the champuru ingredients (tofu, pork and scrambled eggs) a bluish tint, but it still tasted good was a complete 180 from the night before.