So there will be some kind of international exposition here in January. Nothing big, but I guess it’s part of the Fukui International Association, and people will have small booths detailing their home countries, or something specific about them. Anyway, the secretary of the Echizen City International Association has asked me to make up a [...]
I talked to some friends as well as my family over Thanksgiving weekend, which was really nice, and the one thing I keep getting asked is for photos… I guess I chat online about my life here and think out blog posts in my head so often that I always feel like I’ve already said [...]
Today is Japanese Thanksgiving Day. It’s a national holiday, but there’s not much to it — just a day off from work. So of course, I can’t complain!
Yesterday I celebrated US Thanksgiving Day by teaching all of my kids (and my manager) how to make hand-turkeys. Very few people here have seen a [...]
It’s midnight, which means that Thanksgiving has officially started. There is a national holiday here on the 23rd, so I will have a day off on Friday (yay!), but I don’t have any plans for tonight. I suppose I’ll try to get my coworkers to go out with me. But Thanksgiving exists here even less [...]
Today, my senior crush asked me if I was wearing underwear.
I’m fairly positive she was actually asking if I was wearing an undershirt, as it’s quite cold these days and I was wearing a short-sleeved dress shirt. But somehow… I’m just not sure…
That’s all. I’m starving now, and I just made mac’n’cheese. A thousand thanks [...]
Today I visited Youkokan, the second house of Fukui’s Matsudaira clan in feudal Japan. Second house! It was absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful! The current house was rebuilt in the 1980’s (the original was destroyed in the firebombs on WW2), but sadly parts the grounds have been built over with roads. However, what’s been rebuilt is just [...]
Pi-chan got a new friend today. He’s been so lonely by himself while I’m at work, and I felt so bad to see him puffed up and looking depressed whenever I came home at night. It was a cold and rainy day, but I managed to run out to the bird store when it was [...]