Dietto!

Today we went to the mall. AEON mall isn't just any old mall however. It has a Grocery store in it..which is GREAT. I've been here less than a week but it feels like I'm at fat camp and we're all on diets. Not that I'm overweight or anything..not even close. But it's the SAME THING every day. Gohan, miso, ocha and then the really wierd stuff that I have no idea what it is. Gor breakfast it's always toast, gohan, miso and tea. And some wierd mishmash of bastardized American food. I don't touch it. I finally bought some real food. Ykno, fruits and vegetables. I swear..how the HELL do ppl not get scurvy?
In general Japanese people are tiny, waif like even and not just the girls. The guys too. They have no bum whatsoever. Although I did see a few chubby bunnies whilst I was traipsing through the mall. I was at a book store and there was this book dedicated entirely to crazy ways to get skinny. some of them were rediculous things like creams others were temporary things like control tops. Others were these meal plan boxes like "perfect body diet" or something wierd like that. Japanese women are obsessed with dieting. Even the school cafeteria has te Kcal underneath each food serving..wierd much? The worse part of it is, is that it's affecting some of th more selfconcious American students namely Jakurin(Jaquelyn). She's way to uptight. She's to afraid to talk to any of the Japanese male students (they are cute). But that's no reason NOT to talk to them. Second she's freaking out about her weight (she's not fat just average). She bought some diet version of a fruit smoothie. I couldn't help but snicker. It's rediculous. Besides, a better way to control your weight is to NOT buy Baskin Robbins ice cream(which she bought). DUH! Yes there is Baskin robbins in Japan. There is also a KFC, a McDonalds(which she bought) and some other American crap that I don't eat. Not because I'm on a "diet" but because I don't support cow rape, battery caged chickens..and um obesity and heart disease etc etc.
Even my roomate who is born and bred Japanese is chubby. Can you believe it? See not all Nihonjinn are skinny little toothpicks.