Sunday Dinner...Baked Chicken without an Oven!

How's it possible? Pure science (and a little bit of hunger)! Put your chicken (in this case drumettes because apparently full sized drumsticks don't exist at the grocery store!) into a pouch made of aluminum foil. Put about 1/2 inch of water in a skillet and turn up the heat. When the water is boiling, put in your chicken pouch, pop the lid on the pan, and do something else. Voila! No-Bake Baked Chicken!!! Thanks to the NEX in Yokosuka, I had Kraft BBQ sauce to drown it in and thanks to my parents, I had some Bush's baked beans to accompany my gourmet dinner...YUM!

So you wanna know what my place looks like? The building is OLD! So I've got a traditional style Japanese apartment. Foyer, shower room, WC, three rooms, and a kitchen.
Here's my extra room that started off as an "office" but I never go in there so my school supplies are in the closet, there's a bunch of papers on the table (which are sorted by the way), and it's also my "dryer" since people have the tendency to burn stuff outside and I prefer not smelling like charred wood and outdoors.

And here's the "living room" that I don't live in but my clothes do (in the closet of course). Yes, that's a TV etc. in the window sill. I didn't want a TV in my bedroom. Then I realized that I wasn't going to watch it in the living room either, so I stuck it there and I keep the curtains closed so you can't see it. The other things next to it are chairs that sit directly on the floor. They're ugly too so i put them up there out of sight. I pushed the couch and armchair over there so that they're not as much of an eyesore from my bedroom when I have the doors slid open (like this picture). In case you haven't noticed, I prefer that my living space not be aesthetically displeasing...though it's still not aesthetically pleasing. Oh well.

And here's the kitchen. Aside from the shower room and the WC, it's hands down the ugliest room in the house. My predecessor or (maybe hers) thought it was a good idea to paint and as you can see everything is a bunch of different colors. I was going to just repaint the room but I'm still debating. Anyway, that balcony runs the length of the apartment and can be accessed from every room on that side (office, kitchen, and bedroom). I have a gas 2-eye range with a fish roaster slot in the middle. Sinks here don't have garbage disposals and ours don't have hot water. The gas water heater is over the stove.

And finally my bedroom. See my lime green swatter? A reminder to and ready for any unsuspecting mosquitoes who think they're going to pull a fast one on me and bite me while I sleep! I chose this room to be my bedroom because it has the air/heat unit up there above the window/balcony door. I finally tried the heat today because I took a nap and woke up freezing. Thank God it works. I should have tested it when I first got here but the heat outside was so oppressive that creating new heat in my apartment was the farthest from my mind. Central air and heat? HA! I think this room was intended to be a living room because it's next to the kitchen, has no closets, has the air/heat unit, and it's the largest room. Well, it's the same size as my "living room" but it has the big window so it looks bigger.

So that's my place. I was going to put money into improving it but I'd be broke before I ever finished. I might paint my bedroom now that it's cooler outside and I can stand to have the windows open. That's probably all I'm going to do though.