Mochi Maki

Yesterday I finally got to help out with English in other areas other than just what I taught in my class. The English teacher asked me to help grade some papers, which was a change. After school I also helped out a few students with speaking English for an exam that they will take on the weekend. The exam is a profeciency test for getting in to a good high school.
Oh an for lunch today was spagetti. I couldn't believe my eyes. On top of that it was your average school caferteria lunch stock spagetti but delicious tasty quality spagetti. 大石でした。　Sooo goood.
Also yesterday I made mochi with a bunch of the older folk from my neck of the woods. Mochi is made by making rice then bashing it into a mash. Take the mash a twist off little balls of it and roll them. Then let them sit and you will then have mochi. We made like 5000 mochi balls. Mochi is just rice cake in english. There isn't much flavor to it either. Or it just might be aquired. It was cool to see them make it and help out, but after having old people laugh at me for a half hour about what ever. I know it involved something about girlfriends and ther wives. It got out of hand when some little old lady came up behind me when I was sitting on the ground covered my eyes with her hands and started giggling. Giggling like that scary old lady giggle. heee heee heee heee. She did like 3 or 4 times for some reason I can't even fathom. I towered over this little old laday too... But I learned how to make mochi. I didn't know why so many though.
Well I found out today as I climbed a mountain with a bunch of my kids and other village folk to clearing half way up. There I found my neighbor, kawai-san and two other guys standing on top of a wooden tower surrounded by boxes. Evenone opened the bags they brought and started cheering. There was a crowd of like 100 people. Then came the hail of mochi. mochi hitting me in the head and back. Following this was flying ramen and crackers and then more mochi....