DJ and I went to a Christmas party Saturday night. Kayo (Rina’s mom) hosted it at her house and she had a bunch of friends over. Luckily almost all of them spoke English so they were very nice and kept a lot of the conversation in English for us. At one point [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Holidays'
Christmas Party
December 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Holidays
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Christmas and New Years Talk
December 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Holidays, Teaching
While I was in class last night, the Japanese teacher that I often work with asked me what DJ and I were going to do on Christmas. I explained that we would probably just hang out at home with the kitties. We would have to be asleep fairly early because we have catch [...]
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Thanksgiving
November 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Holidays
Since we couldn’t go home to see family for Thanksgiving, I invited my two seven year old students and their moms over (Kayo and Tomoko). Since their lesson is on Thursday anyway, it seemed like the perfect solution. They had never had turkey before and were quite curious about it. Tomoko was so [...]
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Halloween
November 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Holidays
They don’t celebrate Halloween here in Japan, but they do get excited about doing so on base. And I mean both the American and Japanese kids. So I took my two seven year old students trick or treating. They have to be with an American military ID holder to get on [...]
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Oktoberfest
October 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Holidays
DJ has the week off and I went through some websites to find us something to do. I found an Oktoberfest going on in Yokohama so we wandered on down to find it. All I knew was that it was close to the Ferris Wheel in MM21. So..once we got there I [...]
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