Two posts before I get down to the heavy news of the week...well, if I get there...
The questions are:
- What are these ingredients?
- What do they have in common? (i.e. how are they linked?)
I can see lots of eyes rolling - I suppose you're thinking that those of us in this program have loads of time on our hands? Well, I can't deny that charge, but this WAS work-related.
It's an offshoot from the school welcome party (歓迎会), which the English department was responsible for this year. I was in charge of the banner (which might show up on FB sometime in the future, but never here) and the table names. One of the little games I envisioned for the evening was for the other teachers to try and guess the significance of these spices - though they had the advantage of having the number of spices and their names, in English - but the MC forgot all about it and spoiled my fun....