Kate’s Quests

I had dinner at my student’s house tonight.  Her husband is in China for the year (for work) so it’s just her and her seven year old daughter (the daughter is actually the student).  We got on the topic of the Americans here and I was telling her that D.J. and I were hoping to [...]

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I went to the home of one of the teachers I work with yesterday for lunch. She had four other teachers over and we ate Japanese food and just socialized. It was a holiday (it was Golden week) and yesterday was Boy’s day. She’s leaving the school, which is a shame because [...]

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I took my Japanese friends on base the other day. It was very exciting for them. They couldn’t get over how cheap everything was. I’m just not a base kinda girl. Overseas and especially stateside, I would like to stay as far away from the base as possible. It’s [...]

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Now that it’s finally in the news, I figured I’d blog quickly about this. A cab driver was murdered near Shiori station (across the street from the Daiei, which is right in front of the military base). So, this 22 year old guy went AWOL two weeks ago from the Cowpens and we [...]

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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 [...]

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I used the wrong trash area. A crime that should know no forgiveness, I know. What can I say? It was 20 degrees and they moved my trash area again (this being about the sixth time and it’s getting no closer, mind you). I got a call from our agent who [...]

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I ordered a package from an Indian grocery store the other day. For some reason I had it in my head that they would be the ones who would deliver it. Because their website was all in English, I just assumed that whoever delivered it would be able to converse with me. [...]

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