Blogging Day
Chapter 1

Today is blogging day. So many things to write about, so little time. In 2 days' time, I would have spent 4 full months in Japan! SO FAST so fast.. this time last year, I was checking Big Daikon like almost daily to find out more about JET, now i am in the midst of living it, and then this time next year, it will be another different experience and where and what will i be doing then?

Ok, I had a pretty fruitful 3 weeks since my last entry. Wham, here goes.


Topic 1: My Bolster

I had such a hard time trying to buy a bolster, something which I thought would be so common. Actually, most departmental stores do carry some kinds of bolster, in all sorts of shapes and designs... like a bolster sausage dog, or a bolster bear, but they are all very very expensive, about $60.00!!! And all I wanted was just the normal pink bolster that you can get anywhere in Singapore, n couldn't find any. Finally I found one which cost me about $38.00. VERY X RIGHT.


Topic 2: Yellow leaves

Everyday, I need to walk along this street to get to school or to the station... n leaves are turning yellow, and falling. Such a pretty sight. :) It feels very comfortable and nice, if there is no strong wind, to walk along this street, stepping on the massive amounts of fallen yellow leaves.


Topic 3: Some scenes in school

This is Ms Anchalee, an English teacher from Thailand and she was here last week on an exchange programme to visit Kouhokou. I had the honour of showing her around and she attended some of my lessons. This is one of my Current Affairs EL classes and there are only 4 students in the class. She shared about her school in Thailand, n the educational system there.

I also attended flower arrangement classes with her and the flower arrangement teacher said i did an excellent arrangement. haha. so funny...




Students in the classroom having a role play on making a restaurant reservation. Quite a good lesson I thought!

Oh yes, and talking about school, students here have to がまん (gaman = endure) through the very cold winter in just their school uniform. They are not allowed to put on the thick, warm coats, n seriously, the uniform doesn't look very warm to me... I think i will just become a popsicle if i wear what they wear. N so, nowadays, the most common phrase you will hear in school is めっちゃさむい！(meccha samui = very very very cold!) I already feel めっちゃさむい when decked in dunno-how-many-layers, let alone them. Kudos to them really.


Topic 4: Delicious Nabe

Nabe is simply the Japanese word for “pot” and nabe dishes are all one-pot stews served at the table. Gathering round a nabe is one of the most social ways to eat you could possibly imagine. Friends, workmates or family all gather round a large, deep ceramic dish filled with stock as it bubbles away over a gas burner in the centre of the table. It is just like our 'huo guo', but it is so much more satisfying here in this cold weather to have Nabe... so much more MU!!
Haha, and so, the CG girls decided to have a Nabe party... yummy yummy yummy!



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