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Japan! Saturday, March 25
I was up first this morning, turning the heater on, making tea, and finishing up the potato salad. We all left early for school;...
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Japan! Friday, March 24
For years we slept on a mattress on the floor, and we've always enjoyed camping, but both of us found it hard to sleep the first...
Japan! Wednesday/Thursday March 22/23
I'm going to try to give a detailed picture of our trip to Japan, though the posts may come slowly, as they are long. Well, the first...
April 6th (Hanami, new Ogino, bread buffet!)
Today was less stressful at school, but I still have lots of random papers and things to sort through and organize before school...
April 3-5 2006
Like I said, Monday (April 3 rd ) was a beautiful day so I was motivated to go for a run and clean up my apartment after my comfort...
Yankee or Rebel? What Your Speech Reveals
This has nothing to do with Japan, except that a link to the site was waiting for me in an e-mail when we returned. I scored "38%...
Reverse Culture Shock, on Awakening
The first thing I did this morning was fall out of bed. After 11 days of sleeping on a futon in Japan, the floor was two and a half...
Mom and Dad in Japan!!
Well, the past twelve days I have had no guilt that Mom is daily searching for a blog post, so writing slipped from the “to do”...
Learning about Worship from Japan
Modern American Christians know so little about worship, and I include myself as chief of sinners. I find it a difficult concept...
The Japanese Have the Coolest Toilets!
Chronological stories from our trip to Japan will have to wait until I have more time, but I'll try to fit in an occasionally tidbit...
March 21-22 before Mom and Dad’s visit
Tuesday was a national holiday for the vernal equinox and Wednesday I took the first day off since I’ve come to Japan! I used both...
Update March 17-20 (Hippo, Tokyo St. Patrick’s Day Parade)
Friday night (March 17 th ) Kasia spent the night and we had a lovely evening and morning together. We made dinner and played with my...
Where have you been?
I found this fun site on a friend's blog. Check it out! These are the countries I have been to. create your own visited...
A Celtic Fantasy
There were any number of reasons why we shouldn't have gone to the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra's A Celtic Fantasy concert last...
No, I can’t speak Japanese
I can’t let one failure bring me down, but man, it’s so hard to understand my students! I’ve had such great chats with...
Happy St. Patrick's Day to All!
Forget the green beer. After having discovered genuine Irish ancestors in my heritage, I'm even more convinced that any good...
Shirane High School Sports Festival (March 13 and 14)
I don’t think it was really a sports festival since they translated it as “ball game” for me, but I think sports festival is a...
Brass Band Concert
On Sunday March 12 th I played in the Live in Shirane! concert with Shirane High School ’s brass band club. I had begun to...
Update March 9-16 2006 (more acupuncture and another...
Well, I’m just having too much fun. It’s been another week and a bit since I last wrote and again so much has happened! Once...
Habana Grill
We should visit restaurants more often when they are closed! My post about the Sake Moon tells how we discovered that fine restaurant...
Unschooling in the News
Two recent articles on homeschooling were brought to my attention; specifically, they are about unschooling, that branch of the...
Sake Moon (aka Saikyo)
For many years before he died, my father would come visit us for a month each year around February (usually a good month to exchange...
3.14....
Happy Pi Day , everyone! Since I don't habitually use the 24-hour time format, or more truthfully, since I have better things to do...
Two Interesting Questions, with Answers
Our local newspaper includes Parade Magazine in its Sunday edition. I find it generally to be a waste of paper. (A judgment almost...
Japanese Family Visit
One of my students is going to do the rest of his high school study in Ireland (who’s jealous?!) so before he leaves his family...