Me and the Bento Ladies

Last week, as part of my co-op duties at Saitama University, I sold bento (boxed lunches) outside with cute bento ladies. We would call out to students passing by and sell them things like Pork with Kimchi 豚キムチ (and rice, of course) or chicken, you know, stuff like that. On the first day, they asked me to draw something cute on the signboard, and I did the best I could:



Sekiguchi-san (on the right) said, "Oh, I look like that guy, who's that guy, the fat one with the red hat" and her partner goes, "Mario?" and she's like, "Yeah, that one!"



They were very nice, I had a good time. Except, there was no cash register obviously, so I had to calculate change in my head, which I am not very good at in English let alone Japanese. They helped me out though and I got the hang of it. It was nice to do the same thing every day of that week, as otherwise I have been doing different things every day. Whenever I tell anyone that I'm 22, they always say 若いな you're so young, so, that's cool. I do really feel like it's これからだ, like my life is just getting started.