Our Japan adventure is over. About 6 months shorter than expected, but it was a good 5-6 months that we spent there. It’s too bad that we ended up having to leave sort of not on our own terms. A lot of the people we said goodbye to said they hoped we wouldn’t have a [...]
Like everything else this is way late. But finally here. Some of you may have already seen it on my Face book page. So it won’t be too new.
One of my “Must Do’s” In Japan was climb Mount Fuji. the tallest mountain in Japan standing at 3776 Meters. Back in August, one of my fellow [...]
Bitter Sweet Adventure in the Land of the Rising Sun
It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything really about our time in Japan. For the most part we’ve been enjoying our time here.
Annie’s last few days of visiting us were a lot of fun. We went to a Kobe Steak Restaurant for the first [...]
Check out this link. I was messing around on Facebook and found this on one of my friends pages. If anyone knows of something where you can also add places that you want to go please let me know! (I guess you have to be a member and you have to be on my friends [...]
Chris’ mom arrived in Kobe on Wednesday August 8th. We went to a little okonomiyaki place. Okonomiyaki is a special Japanese dish which is often compared with a pancake. However, it tastes and looks nothing like a pancake, so I’m not sure why that comparison is used. It’s made with Cabbage, Egg, meat (usually pork [...]
On August 4th, Kobe had Fireworks. When I was trying to find out exactly why from my students, they all said the same thing. To celebrate summer. Now there’s an idea, but if we started having big firework events for things like summer in the US, I think there would be no end:-)
So far this [...]
So much catching up to do. A few entries ago, I’d promised to give more pictures of our apartment so you could get a better idea of where we’re living. I also took a few pictures inside the Nova Branch that I work at.
First – Step through our Front door. We are in an apartment, [...]
I am so excited. We FINALLY have internet set up for our apartment. So I am HOOKED UP! Hopefully you’ll all be seeing a lot more entries from me now and hopefully then I’ll start hearing from all of you more as well. But for now this one is going to be short. It’s about [...]
First I have to apologize for it being so long – be forwarned.
So today would have to be up there as one of the best days I’ve had so far in Japan. I don’t know if it was just me being in a really good mood – I’m sure that was a part of it. [...]
Hi everyone!
After the earthquake that was in Niigata, I received a lot of concerned emails. We are OKAY! This earthquake was quite a ways from Kobe, so we didn’t feel it although some other teachers at different schools said they felt a very small aftershock.
Just 1 or 2 days before, there was quite a typhoon [...]
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