My town has a huge festival at the end of every July, called Soma Nomaoi. What it`s mostly about seems to be samurai, and horses. Overall, I took almost 400 pictures, so here, I`ve only picked some to show. Saturday, I went with my neighbors to see the parade. The details on the costumes are […]
The last day of school before summer vacation was yesterday. In Japan, summer vacation is not the space between school years though, rather a simple break partway through the school year. (The school year started in April). As an ALT, I get three days summer vacation. I also have paid vacation days to use, but
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So, last weekend (or rather two weekends ago; this was the weekend of June 17/18) : On Friday night, there was an Enkai (work drinking party). It was all these neat traditional Japanese foods, and I should have taken a picture while we were waiting for the principal to arrive, and I forgot to. What
I had forgotten that sometimes magick seems very distant. The times when life gets…well…life-y. The times when it seems hardest to find a bit of magick in everyday life. For me, the problem at the moment is that my grandmother is dying of cancer all the way over in America, and I can`t go see
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Sorry the post this week is late! I found this recipe on pinterest, so this website: http://www.laurengreutman.com/slow-cooker-chicken-parmesan-casserole/ I started out fine, here were my ingredients all together in the slow cooker: After 8 hours on low, mix in the spaghetti. The chicken sorta naturally comes apart, but if you want it in really small pieces, you
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These are one of the absolute easiest cookies to make. I decided on cookies because the other night, my neighbors made dinner! The reason was so that I could taste whatever that spring vegetable is, but I didn`t expect them to make so much…it was enough for 2 meals! My neighbors are so sweet, and
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All right! Sorry for the long break, (I went to Tokyo for Golden Week) and then to start out with a post that`s more of an update than a new craft. Although it is an explanation. Oh, and also, I think I`m going to move craft posts to Thursdays. The way my schedule is right
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One craft that I can do off the top of my head is make an origami crane. I tend to find that if I`m slightly bored, I suddenly have tons of mini cranes in front of me because I made them without thinking about it too much. I`ve always liked cranes and found them
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So…not too much to report since I made the mistake of losing track of expenses somewhere towards the end of the month. >.> I know I was over, at least in food, but because I stopped keeping track, I`m not really sure by how much. This month I`m going to keep better track. I have
I`m going to take a trip down to Tokyo in a couple of weeks. A big city, so it`s obviously going to be expensive. I actually ruled out hotels almost right away because of that, and concentrated on hostels. As soon as I finally found one I liked though, it sold out in the time
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