Kate’s Quests

I just love presents. I had a student today who told me last week that she was going to bring a purse for me to send to my mother as a get well gift. At the time I was hoping that the purse wasn’t too nice because I wasn’t sure I’d be able to part [...]

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Japanese children start kindergarten at age 3 and end at age 5 or 6.  But, their school buses totally rock.  I wish I had gotten to ride to school in one of these as a kid.  How fun would that be?!

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Yesterday, D.J. and I drove up to the Yokota air base (about 2 1/2 hours away) to pick up a co-worker that’s brand new to Japan.  He arrived with his family and we brought them back to the Lodge on base.  We are sponsoring them, which just means that we’re helping them get settled in [...]

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I think I’ve said it before here, but I’ll say it again.  I love Japan, but I’m done.  I’m good and I’m ready to move back home to the states.  My mom has cancer and just went through surgery on Monday.  So, I’ve been calling my Dad and my sister religiously trying to get updates [...]

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I heard this on NPR and found the article on BBC News. Sounds like the “Get Tight with Christ” hand and body cream would work well.  Perhaps the “Virtuous vanilla” lip balm would be better?  I guess now we’ll never know.

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After a few days off line due to internet and software troubles, I’m back! And back to posting regularly. I started this last week, but saved it as a draft right before the big mess. Here you go. This topic has come up several times this week so I thought I’d write a bit about [...]

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If you look into the right corner of the green area you’ll see that near the escalator is the robby.

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Friday I took a flight to Sapporo to meet D.J. and the boat. It’s an hour and a half flight north (ten hours or so and more expensive by train). We then took the express train about a half hour north west to Otaru. That’s where the boat had pulled in and we were able [...]

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I had a lesson yesterday afternoon (my favorite lesson) and we were going over some idioms. One of the idioms was “to crack a smile.” I was explaining what crack meant and she was finally understanding me and said, “Oh! Like you have some crap in a glass!” I busted up and explained that the [...]

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Shara decided to come to my house yesterday and we were going to go hike in the woods and snow. Well, she calls just outside of the neighborhood and tells me that her car is stuck. She’s going to try to turn around and go home because the roads were really bad and getting worse. [...]

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