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If you missed it, I actually posted yesterday too (gasp!). I usually only post on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (getsuyoubi, suiyoubi, kinyoubi) - but yesterday something hit me like a ton of bricks (see below).
Anyway, today is the picture post. I do study Japanese daily, but often using different mediums. One of […]

It just hit me like a ton of bricks today. In Japan there are no spelling bees, you know, those events where people are challenged to spell difficult words in the English language.
Japan does not need them, because Japanese as a spoken language is simple to translate to the Japanese alphabet. […]

Yep, you heard that right. Subway sandwich shops in Japan do NOT have the meatball sub on the menu. Why Japan, why?! The meatball sub is too good to leave off the menu….
Oh well, I do give you credit for having a few other interesting Japanese influenced subs. Particularly the avocado& […]

So the last two weekends have been fun. On the 19th we went to Disneyland Tokyo - a very fun place to go. This was my second time ever going to Disneyland, and best of all it was free! Well, mostly. The tickets to Disney were early wedding gifts from one […]

= need and want, good words to know and somehow they have not been a part of my Japanese vocabulary up until this point! Very strange since “necesito” was one of the first Spanish words I learned.
Kinyoubi is almost passed, but here is my picture post:

Kanji inscribed into a stone marker at a […]

In Japan now there are a lot of Hanabi festivals. Hanabi is the word for fireworks here, and Japanese love fireworks. Two or three days a week there is a fireworks show somewhere around Tokyo, drawing large crowds dressed in yukatas - the favorite summertime festival garb.
Last year I attended the Edogawa Fireworks […]

Today is Marine Day - a holiday in Japan. Many Japanese use this 3 day weekend to take family trips. This holiday is not set on a specific date, instead it always falls on the third Monday of July.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Day
So what did I do for this weekend? Ayako and I met a couple […]

Here is the picture post! Yay! I love picture post kinyoubi!

Now that the celebration is over, the bad news begins. Just recently the QQ store that was near our new apartment closed. It was a sad, sad day for me - as it was my weapon against the high cost of living […]

The humidity in Japan is really shooting through the roof. I think it is cooler here than in Alabama / Tennessee - but much more humid.
My commute to work goes like this: a walk to the station during which I am instantly sweating, cool ride via train for 40 minutes, transfer by […]

So this is a quick post, because I have a full plate of things to take care of. Specifically I am trying to wrap up some planning for our wedding reception. Not particularly easy as there seems to be many moving parts to this.
Next Monday is Marine day - a holiday here and […]