A NEW MALL

Well my conversation group was telling me about this new mall that opened up in Aboshi, so not too far from Tatsuno, only about a 20-30 min drive. So i had to check it out, so after class me and Oguchi san drove over to the new mall. It was late, about 1030, but the mall was still opened, amazingly. Usually shopping stores in japan close pretty damn early, such as arount 800pm. But it looks like this mall is going to be open til 1100pm. It was a nice 2 story mall, maybe about half the size of Bellevue Square. It came complete with a Jusco, aka supermarket, a Sports Authority (my favorite), a Joshin ... electronic store, yummy food court, and various other stores such as a starbucks, and a bunch of other designer stores such as Tommy Hilfiger and Polo. But it seems like the other most impressive thing of the mall to my Japanese friends was that the entire inside was laid out in carpet. Wow, supposed to make it more beautiful. Anways carpet seemed like carpet to me, but no big deal. I guess one reason would be in japan that most homes dont really have carpet, either tatami mats or hardwood floors, so i guess it would be a little exciting. But i guess the most exciting thing for me was not the carpet but the foreign food store i found there. Oh sometimes it is so hard to find certain things in japan, its just not like home in america where we seem to have everything. So looking around the store i found everything i have been craving for, from cookies, jam, to wine, and then the most important thing i have been looking for in japan over the past year. Yes, it was .................. soft flour tortilla shells .... finally! I can now make Mexican food!!!!!