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Shin Zen Bi
Well I’m back from the Ballet Parent Teacher Conference. I got there just in time at 3:30. There was a long line of Japanese women winding their way upstairs to the second floor. I got in line with everybody else and finally got to my seat. There were easily 2oo women in the room.…
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Parent Teacher Meeting in Japanese and a Few Flowers
It’s Sunday afternoon. Yumiko is back at ballet practice and then she has a play practice at school. I am supposed to go to a parent teacher meeting at her ballet school at 3:30. I am going to go, but it could be a little difficult as I speak no Japanese and the teachers…
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Color
I’m starting a new photo class today. The next four weeks are all about color. I think I’m going to love it. It was raining hard again this morning when Yumiko and I took off for her school. But again we bundled up and put on our raincoats and got our umbrellas and slogged…
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An Erratum
Today Ken and I had a great lunch in a Chinese restaurant with his old school mate Norio Mihira and his wife Slyvia. Mr. Mihira was for many years the Japanese commercial service officer in the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. He met his wife Sylvia while in Indonesia. They are just a wonderful…
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Monday Evening and the Little Bird
It’s Monday evening. Yumiko has just returned from ballet practice and she hit the sack early. She is in the midst of taking the “ERB” tests at school. She has a test every day this week. Ugh…. Ken just finished his exercising and is now working on his computer and I too am here…