To date I have met 7 Hiroko-sans. The latest was a lady who just joined the gym. ANd did I tell you that my Japanese teacher is Hiroko too? The original Hiroko said really the name is not a common name and I said wahhhh? 7 Hirokos in a small area is not common?!
It is [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Hirokos! Jan 29th
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Doctor Visit and X_C ski Jan 19th
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dave’s appointment with Hiroko-san’s husband who is a doctor was at 8.30am this morning. Of course, we got lost. Here, many roads have the same name, so Hiroko-san had to come in search of us. She took us to her house which was to the back and connected to her husband’s clinic. The clinic itself [...]
Sayonara Liza n Steve Jan 15th
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I cooked breakfast this morning – Liza’s last day here in Aizu. It was a sad day for me. We walked to the station and took some pictures next to the red cow – Aizu’s mascot. I cannot believe that she and Steve have been in Japan for three weeks! Time flew when we were [...]
Okonomiyaki for Lunch! Jan 14th
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I wanted to try that Okonomiyaki restaurant while Liza n Steve was here, so we went for lunch. There were about three or four booths and chairs around this bar with a huge hot plate. Each booth also had a hot plate on the table but the waitress said she would cook ours at the [...]
Jan 13th 2008
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The kids were still asleep when Dave and I left for the mountains. It was blowing really hard down here and I was worried about the drive but Dave has had no exercise yet this week, so I decided that we should go. He must work out.
At one of the traffic lights, we had to [...]
Jan 12th
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Emma left us Jan 10th. I felt very sad to see her with a huge backpack, a little pack in the front and her laptop bag, walking to the train.
Liza and Steve arrived in the afternoon of the same day, they were both tired. Liza needed to see an eye doctor and Hiroko-san helped us [...]
Lucy Leaves Aizu Jan 6th
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We decided to take Lucy to Fukushima Airport this morning. It was about an hour and a half drive to get there. Yesterday we went to the bus station to find out the times of the buses but it appeared that the bus will arrive at the airport at 920am and the flight to Sapporo [...]
Goodbye Kids Jan 1st 2008!!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I rustled everyone out of bed so they could get ready to catch the 9.11am train. They are going to Tokyo and Kyoto. Alex, however will continue on home on the 4th and Lucy will catch the train back to Aizu. The rest will continue onto Kyoto and Nagoya before returning to us for a [...]
New Year’s Eve Dec 31st
Posted in Uncategorized on January 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Woke up to lots of snow. I really did not believe that Aizu could have this much snow! However, the snow clearing is not very good at all here – not compared to Truckee.
We went out to get some stuff for shabu shabu and was shocked to see how much snow there was on the [...]
Snow Fall Dec 30th
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There are 7 of us now and it had started to snow. Yesterday, when Dave was out running a Japanese guy told him, in sign language, that it would snow and that it would be knee high and I laughed – “never”, I said!
I made some pancakes for breakfast. Someone has to eat that [...]
