January 2009
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Obama mania hits Japan
Wow, what a day yesterday! It seems like the entire world was watching and celebrating Obama’s inauguration, the new American Renaissance. Here in Japan is no different. From the hula-dancing “Obama Girls” in the fishing villiage called Obama ( it means “small beach” in Japanese), to the latest bestselling book, a collection of Obama speeches meant to help you study...
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TFiJ25: Playing in the snow (2006)
Last night we got this huge dump of snow, about 35 cm, and Toyama (finally!) feels like the “Winter Wonderland” I have come to know and love. I took Luke to Ushidake yesterday where he went skiing (me on a board, of course), and today we pulled him out of school so he could so snowboarding with his mama on her day off! Aren’t we the dream parents? “You can’t go...
December 2008
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Happy new year 2009!
Happy new year, everyone! We hope you had a good time. We’re enjoying some relaxing family time this year. We don’t have any special plans, other than going over to Shinobu’s parents house to eat traditional foods. Maybe we’ll go to a Shinto shrine later in the day, or perhaps we’ll go shopping. Max has the sniffles, and the snow is not great, so we probably...