On Saturday I went to lunch at mama’s Fry Pan with Nachan. There we met up with Rie and her two adorable children – Misaki and Hiroki. They adolpted me for the weekend. We had a great time. Our first stop was the game centre. Misaki has this game called Rabi Berry that she’s obsessed […]
i’ve been looking for wool in Nagasaki. I hadn’t been able to find any, and people I asked don’t knit and couldn’t help me. but saturday as nachan and i walked down Naka-dori to lunch, I noticed one! it was filled with old ladies and wool! so i dragged nachan inside to pick out wool […]
I am a homeless Canadian. For a number of different reasons, Nachan couldn’t keep me for February so I moved out of there this morning. I was supposed to move in with a family today, but they’re all sick with the Flu. So in the meanwhile, Kendall is my host dad. Here is a picture […]
Nachan is an Esthe (japanese for Esthetician). She is also an instructor, and teaches students how to give facials and hand massages etc. Last night I was their willing “victim” as they practiced their technique. I think Nachan is an excellent teacher!
so i’m here working on curriculum and materials development for english teaching in japan. among other things we’re working on a language DVD. for part of the DVD they want us to look like certain characters. so i am being Anpanman. I got to do arts and crafts, and my costume turned out pretty well: […]
on wednesday evening i went to dinner. it was myself, nachan, another woman and then three men. first we went to dejima warf to a chinese restaraunt (chinese sake is very good) and then to a bar downtown called psybar that was pretty damn cool. The men paid for everything. I assumed they were friends […]
see, i do cook. until today i only had chad’s pictures, but now have uploaded mine and nachans. so there.
last night nachan’s friend miki came over to teach us to make soba. first, you had to knead the dough. then we had to roll it. we had a contest – foreigners vs japanese – to see who could roll a better sheet. we rocked out, and even had to help our Japanese friends finish […]
Last night I got home to Nachan’s and three of her friends – Panchan (Pan as in Panda since she wears lots of black and white), Natsuki and Krara. Now, Panchan and I have met before, and this time she gave me a gift – a fan. Now, I think of fans as decorative, but […]
Yesterday we ventured across the street onto the campus of Nagasaki Daigaku (Nagasaki University) for lunch and braved the crowd at the cafeteria. It took a second to orient myself – Curry here, noodles there, salad and some other random stuff – and then I dove right in. I even went to someone else’s table […]