THE JAPANESE FISH MARKET

Dear Room 201,
I am happy to hear that you are doing nicely. Keep up the good work and I am proud of you!! Wait until you hear about what I did today. Here I go: I woke up at 4:00 A.M.!! I met other teachers and we took a taxi ride to a place called the Japanese Fish Market. It is a place where they sell all sorts of Japanese food, but mostly fish. Have you ever been to a flea market? I bet you have! Well, imagine a flea market the size of all of Germantown. Can you imagine one so big? That is what this was. Rows and rows and rows of little stands with people selling all types of fish and they were ALIVE!! YUCKY!!! People come from all over to buy the fish to use in their restaurants or at home. There was this one big room with frozen tunas. Gigantic, tunas. There was an auction where the tunas are sold, everything was in Japanese, of course. Each tuna sold for hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Tuna is very important because they use it for sushi. The tunas will be shipped to restaurants and supermarkets all over the world. It was fascinating. There were men driving small trucks all over the fish market. The place was all hustle and bustle and so crazy. It was only 5:00 in the morning and it was busy as can be. I have never ever seen anything like it. I smell like fish!! I saw all types of fish and seafood: lobsters, octopus, eels, shrimp, clams, mussels, and things I don't even know about. They told us that this is one of the most important fish markets in the whole world!! I hope you enjoy my photos of the fish market. Let me know if you did! Do you have any more questions for me??