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Thailand!
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010written by Electra
Roy and I joined forces with my cousin Kat and her hubby Hans to go to Thailand for Christmas and New Years and then some. It has been a nice level of adventure thus far.
トランプ
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008written by Electra
Day before yesterday, Roy and I went to Tokyu Hands (a sort of hobby/ craft/ nongrocery-store goods store) to see if we could find poker chips of a suitable weight and size. Roy has been playing poker with a group of other ALTs and local friends for months now, so I figured [...]
Golden Week 誕生日
Monday, May 5th, 2008May 5 is my birthday. That’s 誕生日 in Japanese. So yesterday I celebrated it, mostly with Roy but then with friends in the evening. Luckily, it is on a big holiday here in Japan — 子供の日 — which is in the midst of a large cluster of consecutive holidays. Those are Japanese [...]
プリクラ
Sunday, April 13th, 2008Electra has (unfortunately?) become quite enamored with プリクラ. Luckily, Roy and her other friends go along with it.
Above is Electra and her friend Haruka. Haruka is adorably sweet! This プリクラ was taken after we sang at a カラオケ館 called “Karaoke Mash!”, where I sang lots of Queen, The Beatles, and some Disney. [...]
Weekend in Newport!
Sunday, July 8th, 2007written by Electra
Roy and I decided on the spur of a moment to go with friends (Alison, Sam and Andrew) to Newport on the Oregon coast. Andrew’s family has a South oriented bay-view duplex cottage there. We drove out on Saturday and came back Sunday.
On the drive out, Ali shared some Farmers Market [...]