Shopping - fun for the whole family

Wasted most of weekend, just went to Nagoya for shopping expedition (Fri) to Book-Off near 黒川駅。It was fairly big one, but didn't find anything of use as I was leading 2 other students on the expedition and couldn't quite idle there all day (others were not as interested in books as I was). Additionally, visited the most famous temple in Nagoya called Atsuda-jingu (originally 3rd century).

Saturday I lurked in Okazaki (Book-Off x2 ;>), as well as Sunday. Dreamed of digital SLR camera, but I think I'm still too cheapskate to buy one. Monday I finally skipped class for most of monday (went only to my private lesson in the afternoon, as well as free-form chat with future teachers).

In terms of food, I'm missing real bread terribly - here, everything is practically dessert/pastry-type, unfortunately *sigh*. On the positive side, I had the most positive customer service experience in ages - nut in my new sunglasses had fallen off, and I got replacement (installed) without any cost.

On completely unrelated front, I've been playing Go with fellow German student - so far 3 wins 1 loss ;). See pictures below for street decoration of Okazaki / what have I been shopping so far (I got the question of "what exactly HAVE you bought" last week).