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Archive for February, 2008

まま働いています。

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

(PreS. You can hover over the Japanese characters for a romanji-ization.)
So, much to the disappointment I’m sure of our friends back in the ‘States who desparately miss us and want us to come back, we have decided to recontract for another year. Or rather, a long discussion with our bank accounts and various other [...]

Electra is dancy dancy.

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

So, we have no pictures because Roy is too enamored with watching me to take them, and the folks who did take some photos haven’t shared yet, but….
To make a long story medium-short:
A new Cuban restaurant recently opened up in Tanuki-Kouji (the covered “arcade”/large-alley of youthful, fairly red-light district of Susukino) and the owner (a [...]

雪祭り!!! Sapporo is famous for the Snow Festival.

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Okay, this past weekend was what is called “yuki matsuri”/雪祭り/The Snow Festival. Its a really big Sapporo event, organized by the 自衛隊. Every night after a big snow-fall, the JiEiTai comes in the dead of night with their snow-plow bulldozers and dump trucks and steals all the snow on the street! Then they [...]