The Rainy Season 梅雨
The Rainy Season is 梅雨 in Japanese. The kanji for tsuyu is plum rain. Every where in supermarkets there are plums. It’s the season for making plum wine, plum syrup and […]
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Emoji, from Japan but a worldwide phenonomen
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 Merriam-Webster Dictionary has many Japanese […]
Sumo – So much more than Fat men in Nappies!
I love going to the Sumo! On May the 14th the Canadians and I went and spent the day at the sumo. The are 6 major tournaments a year, 3 in […]
Travel Theme – Subtle
Taking Japanese Macha ( Bitter rich green tea) in a beautiful serene Japanese garden with a history that dates back to the 1600’s. The tea house stands on a site […]
Musical notes on Japan
Music is an amazing thing. Even if you don’t share a language with someone you can share music and appreciate it. I often use music in my classes to reinforce […]
My Favourite Things!
Here I am living in the land of Karaoke so why not have a little sing-a-along about all my favourite things in Japan! Those who know me well know I […]
Living in a retro time warp.
Loving this blogging business. It’s making me think about all sorts of things, how I perceive different situations, my opinions right or wrong!, what interests me, shocks me and bamboozles […]
Why???????????
There are certain small things in Japan that continually niggle and bug me, mostly petty and silly stuff that is not really my place to change or necessarily question but stuff that no […]
Smoking Hot Topic
The Japanese are still prolific smokers despite statistics showing the number of smokers is at an all time low. Cigarettes are still very cheap and very easily accessible with vending […]
Where did that time go? Spent on diabolically crowded trains !
Wow it is January 2015 and I now remember in 2013 my NY resolution was to learn how to blog! MMMN that didn’t happen. Maybe this year. However I am […]
