Today is Girls’ day (click for more information). For girls’ day, people with daughters get hina dolls and put them on display. Even my tamagotchi has them on display. Hina Dolls are beautiful and expensive. And you don’t play with them. They’re just decorative. On Saturday we went to JUSCO to look at them. Some […]
before this weekend starts, let’s talk about last weekend. last weekend my host brother came in to visit from Tokyo. he’s 29 and married with a baby on the way. we hung out for a big in the afternoon, and then again in the evening after he came back from drinking with his friends. he […]
i like to do sudokus. i was excited to come to japan, home of the sudoku, and do authentic japanese puzzles with authentic japanese people. but no one here knows what they are. they mistook my love of sudokos as a general love of puzzles and gave me wooden blocks to arrange into shapes. yipee. […]
keiko can sing! with the music no less!
he sings to the beat of his own drum
on wednesday we had a “welcome party” — a little late, but meh. well, it was also because we worked all of last weekend and this was our compensation since we don’t get paid. so it was the 5 interns, guy, kendall and then coach Yamasaki. anyway, the night started off at a Yaki Niku […]
On Monday I moved in with my new host family. I’m living with a couple who has 2 grown up sons. They’ve always wanted a daughter. And I’m it. Anyway, they are really nice. Akira (my dad) picked me up in a Canada shirt with a flag and Montreal across the bottom. Turns out […]
A few people have asked about my olympic involvement over in Japan. Frankly, it’s been pretty minimal. I spend my time trash talking the Americans about their Hockey Teams. While the Women did me proud, I’ve been getting it about the mens’ 2 shut outs. Hrmph. Actually, Saturday we did turn on the olympics. But […]
last night nachan and i met up for dinner with her friend ogatasan. he took us for dinner to a sushi restaurant. a real sushi restaraunt — the kind i don’t go to because they’re too expensive. needless to say, it was pretty cool. the restaraunt was the width of a hallway with just a […]
i thought about not posting until i actually got some mail. while my mailbox is still empty (sigh) i got plenty of emails — some concerned, though most were just annoyed at not having anything to read — so i’m back. more soon…