Jackie's Japan Journal

I like to knit, I'm not very good at it but making something simple that requires no shaping is doable.  So I made Hannah a scarf.  Not ...

Christopher is studying for the 2nd grade Eiken Test at the moment.  One of the words that came up was eccentric.  This word comes from Gree...

Not really strange strange more of "what happened?" kind of week.  I have been really tired the past week and have spent a lot of ...

Yes the title is right.  A bomb threat.  Here in Japan, the safest country in the world.  A bomb threat at the junior high school that Chris...

Christopher and Hannah went back to school on the 3rd!!  It has been so quiet around here the last week. I love having the kids at home but ...

I finally got a new computer desk.   For most people taking out an old desk and putting in a new one would take a couple of hours.  But we a...

Typhoon number 15 of the season is passing by.  The center of the storm is out at sea off the coast of Nagasaki.  Here we have been treated ...