Only as a personal challenge, I decided to not eat any candy for a whole week. I thought it would be pretty easy… but I was wrong! I started last Monday and was sugar free for about 3 days until Thursday. Thursday was a Japanese holiday called ‘Hina Matsuri’. It’s really only a holiday for girls involving Japanese dolls, yet it also involves candy. When I got to school on of my students, a nice old lady, gave me a present on account of the holiday. When I opened it I was amazed at how expensive it looked, especially knowing the prices of sweets in Japan. Since receiving the gift I couldn’t NOT eat them, thus killing my week of no sweets. In fact my love of sweets is so well known by other people, that when I returned home some of my female friends gave me even more sweets. One of them even brought me some famous Sakura Mochi. I ate nothing but sweets for dinner last night, and today the week starts over. Let’s see how long I last this time.