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Full Weekend and One More Cherry Blossom Picture
Full, full weekend. Yumiko’s second sleep-over in two weeks. This one was the right date and time. Just one friend, but all went well. The house has never been so clean and tidy. We should have more of these. (Only kidding!) After we returned Yumiko’s friend to her parents we had lunch with Mr.…
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Western Bathrooms and Cherry Blossoms
It’s early Saturday morning, April 4. (Another sleep-over tonight for Yumiko. For those of you who have been following that saga, I’ll report on that tomorrow.) Ken’s brother Tokuya San is in the hospital. He had elective surgery on a hernia about three days ago. Here in Japan if you have even a simple…
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The Sleep-Over
Ken thinks I have “Lazy Brain.” He may be right. Let me tell you the latest incident why. Yumiko has been to two sleep-overs since we have been here in Japan. A sleep-over, for those who may not know, is when you invite a bunch of kids over to your house for a…
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Beijing Tomorrow – Harikari Today
The three of us Kono’s are getting up tomorrow morning at 4:30 a.m. and will fly to Beijing with Ken’s sister Takae San. We’ll be back next Thursday. In the meantime, here’s a photo of Yumiko for this week’s class on “No Color – Color” photos. Oh yeah, for those of you who read…
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Five Visits to the City Hall
It’s just about 11:00 a.m. on Monday. Ken and I left the house early this morning to go back to the City Hall to meet with Mr. Takada, our case manager. Mr. Takada is the nicest person on earth. He is a small, well built Japanese man. He is balding on the top and…
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Computer Adventure
Oh, what a time we had on Sunday. It was about 10:30 a.m. Yumiko and I were both working on our computers. Yumiko asked me to take a look at her screen. She had been experimenting by taking the software icons off her “docking station” and putting them somewhere else on her computer so…
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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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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…