My Amazing Track Jacket

When I bought this track jacket I had the salesgirl translate it for me. She said "Sweet Dumpling". Okay, that sounds good. Mainly it fit, was reasonalbly priced, would keep me warm and it looked good. But when I wear this jacket the Japanese women (and a few men) squeal and say "kawai" (cute) and point at it and tell everyone in the place about it. I am not exagerating. One time in the community center I had 6 women squealing over me. And today I had 4 women and a funny little old man just laughing and squealing over it. I'm not sure if it just having kanji on my clothing, or if it is this particular phrase that is so amazing. Obviously, being a blonde woman in Japan I'm use to attracting a bit of attention. I'm just not sure my ear drums can handle me wearing this jacket regularly.

P.S. Health update. Going to bed early, keeping the heater turned on and taking lots of vitamins seems to have helped. The fever, aches and pains are all gone. But so is my voice. I sound exactly like a soft spoken Elaine Stritch. If you don't know who that is...well, you are on the internet, look her up!