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Date: 21st July 2012
Hello, there
Hello, just passed by again, by chance. I like your attentions to the details. You're a talented writer, truly. I love the flowers that you took. Enjoy your summer!
From Blog: I'll have Japanese guests any day!
Hello, there
Hello, just passed by again, by chance. I like your attentions to the details. You're a talented writer, truly. I love the flowers that you took. Enjoy your summer!
From Blog: I'll have Japanese guests any day!
Date: 14th July 2012
MEK
Wow its great to read your blogs and know MEK is still going well. I was one of the 1st teachers to open MEK- Shizuoka in 2004.
From Blog: Kimono, Onsen, Ramen
MEK
Wow its great to read your blogs and know MEK is still going well. I was one of the 1st teachers to open MEK- Shizuoka in 2004.
From Blog: Kimono, Onsen, Ramen
Date: 2nd July 2012
But I do thank everyone for their advice. It is hard to get good advice on rubbish in Japan, even when you ask, so thank-you.
From Blog: The rubbish rubbish situation.
But I do thank everyone for their advice. It is hard to get good advice on rubbish in Japan, even when you ask, so thank-you.
From Blog: The rubbish rubbish situation.
Date: 2nd July 2012
Type of rubbish
I think it needs to be noted that the rubbish sitting outside my door is not regular trash that can be thrown out in the weekly collections, it is household items, shoes, clothes, magazines, bags, metal pipes, wooden boxes, mouldy books, mismatched tuppaware, and all sorts of things. I have got the hang of throwing my rubbish out: I'm ok with that now. But I have had to wait for the council to collect the pile of household items that can't go in the regular trash. Perhaps I didn't explain as well as I could have: the council came to my house to pick up the items, I wasn't home, and they couldn't find the rubbish, so they didn't pick it up. They left a slip in my door to tell me of this. Instead of letting me read the slip myself, and take it to my school to get help and have it sorted out, the neighbours pushed their way onto my doorstep, ripped the slip out of my door and yelled at me before I had a chance to do anything myself. If they had just minded their own business, I would have been able to sort things out, but they were too much of busy-bodies and had to put their two cents in. What they did was rude, inappropriate and totally unnecessary. Plus, they did it as a performance and humiliated me in front of half a street of onlookers. I'm not going to hold a grudge, and I still wave, nod, smile and say Konnichiwa, but I'm certainly not going to justify their behaviour, nor am I going to leave it out of my blog as not everything is kisses and sunshine, and to leave it out would be lying about my experiences living in Japan.
From Blog: The rubbish rubbish situation.
Type of rubbish
I think it needs to be noted that the rubbish sitting outside my door is not regular trash that can be thrown out in the weekly collections, it is household items, shoes, clothes, magazines, bags, metal pipes, wooden boxes, mouldy books, mismatched tuppaware, and all sorts of things. I have got the hang of throwing my rubbish out: I'm ok with that now. But I have had to wait for the council to collect the pile of household items that can't go in the regular trash. Perhaps I didn't explain as well as I could have: the council came to my house to pick up the items, I wasn't home, and they couldn't find the rubbish, so they didn't pick it up. They left a slip in my door to tell me of this. Instead of letting me read the slip myself, and take it to my school to get help and have it sorted out, the neighbours pushed their way onto my doorstep, ripped the slip out of my door and yelled at me before I had a chance to do anything myself. If they had just minded their own business, I would have been able to sort things out, but they were too much of busy-bodies and had to put their two cents in. What they did was rude, inappropriate and totally unnecessary. Plus, they did it as a performance and humiliated me in front of half a street of onlookers. I'm not going to hold a grudge, and I still wave, nod, smile and say Konnichiwa, but I'm certainly not going to justify their behaviour, nor am I going to leave it out of my blog as not everything is kisses and sunshine, and to leave it out would be lying about my experiences living in Japan.
From Blog: The rubbish rubbish situation.
Date: 1st July 2012
I completely understand your frustration. When adults are frustrated, many drink with friends and try to get over it. You're in a foreign country, and it's just natural that you get p**sed off by local way of doing things and that locals are p**sed off by you in turn. And I agree that sort of lady can be a pain in the ass. I'm not sure about your prefecture or town, but local administrations often have information on throwing away rubbish in English on their website, including what days for what kind of rubbish in which neighborhood, and and sometimes Google Translate might actually help you. Hang in there!
From Blog: The rubbish rubbish situation.
I completely understand your frustration. When adults are frustrated, many drink with friends and try to get over it. You're in a foreign country, and it's just natural that you get p**sed off by local way of doing things and that locals are p**sed off by you in turn. And I agree that sort of lady can be a pain in the ass. I'm not sure about your prefecture or town, but local administrations often have information on throwing away rubbish in English on their website, including what days for what kind of rubbish in which neighborhood, and and sometimes Google Translate might actually help you. Hang in there!
From Blog: The rubbish rubbish situation.
Date: 1st July 2012
Cheer up
Throwing away rubbish is one of the most difficult things in Japanese daily life. Things must be separated accordingly, placed at the right corner at the right place, otherwise you will have someone (an unpaid volunteer auntie of the community made responsible for maintaining the rubbish corner) coming to and yelling at you ... or worse, you'll risk being fined by the local authority. As long as you live in Japan, you'll have to cope with it. It's nothing personal, but people may dislike foreigners just because they can't follow the rubbish & recycling rules. Cheer up. Not everything is bad about the system, as you're doing something good to the ecology.
From Blog: The rubbish rubbish situation.
Cheer up
Throwing away rubbish is one of the most difficult things in Japanese daily life. Things must be separated accordingly, placed at the right corner at the right place, otherwise you will have someone (an unpaid volunteer auntie of the community made responsible for maintaining the rubbish corner) coming to and yelling at you ... or worse, you'll risk being fined by the local authority. As long as you live in Japan, you'll have to cope with it. It's nothing personal, but people may dislike foreigners just because they can't follow the rubbish & recycling rules. Cheer up. Not everything is bad about the system, as you're doing something good to the ecology.
From Blog: The rubbish rubbish situation.
Date: 1st July 2012
I can see why they get frustrated about foreigners, but it would help if there was actual advice in English. I have an English rubbish guide, which shows me which items go together, but says nothing about when they need to be removed. Also, I think that wasting hours of my time and gallons of water washing my rubbish is counterproductive to environmentalism. I was more annoyed about being ambushed at my door and made a spectacle of by some nosy women with nothing better to do.
From Blog: The rubbish rubbish situation.
I can see why they get frustrated about foreigners, but it would help if there was actual advice in English. I have an English rubbish guide, which shows me which items go together, but says nothing about when they need to be removed. Also, I think that wasting hours of my time and gallons of water washing my rubbish is counterproductive to environmentalism. I was more annoyed about being ambushed at my door and made a spectacle of by some nosy women with nothing better to do.
From Blog: The rubbish rubbish situation.
Date: 26th June 2012
Birds
Those birds look like baby tawny frogmouths....... Owls?....... In Japan?????
From Blog: Little Monsters
Birds
Those birds look like baby tawny frogmouths....... Owls?....... In Japan?????
From Blog: Little Monsters
Date: 20th June 2012
Typhoon
Well you had the typhoon a d we had the earthquake. Biggest in Victoria for 100 years. Sadly the garage got a crack in the floor and all of your shoes fell down to the centre of the earth.....
Typhoon
Well you had the typhoon a d we had the earthquake. Biggest in Victoria for 100 years. Sadly the garage got a crack in the floor and all of your shoes fell down to the centre of the earth.....
Date: 20th June 2012
Noooooooooooooooooo!
Did they fall through to the other side of the earth, and will they pop up at my front door in Japan?
Noooooooooooooooooo!
Did they fall through to the other side of the earth, and will they pop up at my front door in Japan?
Date: 3rd June 2012
Edible air
Your edible descriptions make one salivate. Love X X X
From Blog: Sparkling City
Edible air
Your edible descriptions make one salivate. Love X X X
From Blog: Sparkling City
Date: 3rd June 2012
Firefly
Forgot to mention: On the way to the Family Mart, walking along the river, we spotted a firefly! I have never seen one before. It was magical. They glow on and off as they propel themselves through the air, seemingly in bursts to match their glows.
From Blog: Welcome Party and Shizuoka Cannes Festival
Firefly
Forgot to mention: On the way to the Family Mart, walking along the river, we spotted a firefly! I have never seen one before. It was magical. They glow on and off as they propel themselves through the air, seemingly in bursts to match their glows.
From Blog: Welcome Party and Shizuoka Cannes Festival
Date: 3rd June 2012
Slippers slipped off the menu
By Friday, the novelty of wearing slippers to work had worn off, and I was sick of having sore feet and lower legs. So I have dedicated a pair of shoes to be my indoor shoes at work.
From Blog: The serpent and the fruit (snakes and apples)
Slippers slipped off the menu
By Friday, the novelty of wearing slippers to work had worn off, and I was sick of having sore feet and lower legs. So I have dedicated a pair of shoes to be my indoor shoes at work.
From Blog: The serpent and the fruit (snakes and apples)
Date: 24th May 2012
On second thought...
On second thought, if anyone in the world is immune to strawberry poisoning, it would be me.
From Blog: Strawberry Poisoning
On second thought...
On second thought, if anyone in the world is immune to strawberry poisoning, it would be me.
From Blog: Strawberry Poisoning
Date: 19th May 2012
Rotten skin
How Do you lnow what rotten skin smells like. Very graphic. Don't they look goegeours in their pink and white and blue and white. Perfect little angels !!! Love X X X
From Blog: In the words of Barney Stinson: 'Suit up!'
Rotten skin
How Do you lnow what rotten skin smells like. Very graphic. Don't they look goegeours in their pink and white and blue and white. Perfect little angels !!! Love X X X
From Blog: In the words of Barney Stinson: 'Suit up!'
Date: 10th May 2012
About "pants"
Pants or Pantsu means underpants in Japanese.We Japanese use many Japanized-foreign words and Japanese-invented English style words(known as Wasei-eigo in Japanese). For example, Pan("bread" from portugese, Fried potato("French fries"),Televi("Television") etc.
From Blog: Rainstorms, an emergency and rude bus men
About "pants"
Pants or Pantsu means underpants in Japanese.We Japanese use many Japanized-foreign words and Japanese-invented English style words(known as Wasei-eigo in Japanese). For example, Pan("bread" from portugese, Fried potato("French fries"),Televi("Television") etc.
From Blog: Rainstorms, an emergency and rude bus men
Date: 9th May 2012
? autumn hands
How clever, how lovely. Do the parents get to see them? Your meal sounds delicious. We KNOW it is one month, one long month without our Alison. Your lovely blogs are the saving grace. Love to you X X X
From Blog: One Month Mark
? autumn hands
How clever, how lovely. Do the parents get to see them? Your meal sounds delicious. We KNOW it is one month, one long month without our Alison. Your lovely blogs are the saving grace. Love to you X X X
From Blog: One Month Mark
Date: 10th May 2012
At the end of the year, the students take home "Memory Books" with many of their pieces of work in them. I think these will go in their memory books. For Mother's Day, we made a heart-card today, and tomorrow the school is going to take a picture of the class holding their heart-cards to take home as well
From Blog: One Month Mark
At the end of the year, the students take home "Memory Books" with many of their pieces of work in them. I think these will go in their memory books. For Mother's Day, we made a heart-card today, and tomorrow the school is going to take a picture of the class holding their heart-cards to take home as well
From Blog: One Month Mark
Date: 5th May 2012
Address
Looking forward to getting your postal address. Computer/internet playing up, several attempts to get photos .. terrific. Read blogs avidly. Will miss you today, very much. BBQ with Aj's birthday in mind. Have car in garage, feels as good as you and seperate b/room. What an achievement. Much love Gma and Gpa X X X it is COLD here.
From Blog: Golden Week(end)
Address
Looking forward to getting your postal address. Computer/internet playing up, several attempts to get photos .. terrific. Read blogs avidly. Will miss you today, very much. BBQ with Aj's birthday in mind. Have car in garage, feels as good as you and seperate b/room. What an achievement. Much love Gma and Gpa X X X it is COLD here.
From Blog: Golden Week(end)
Date: 1st May 2012
Looks like you're having a great time
Hi Ally, reading your blog is fasinating - looks like you are have a great time in class and out. Children seem to be the same everywhere :-) darlings one minute and monsters the next. Love the photos modelling with the art work is just you.
From Blog: Picnics, rabbits, Niku Onigiri and the Gates of Hell
Looks like you're having a great time
Hi Ally, reading your blog is fasinating - looks like you are have a great time in class and out. Children seem to be the same everywhere :-) darlings one minute and monsters the next. Love the photos modelling with the art work is just you.
From Blog: Picnics, rabbits, Niku Onigiri and the Gates of Hell
Photos great when you think to click onto them!
Home made chicken noodle soup, very good for sniffles and pick-me-up. You've done so well for barely 3 weeks, seems eons ago since you left though. You'll feel much more comfortable after finding your way around your locality like that Much love from us
From Blog: Asabata Adventure Time
Corn Soup
I've been drinking corn-cup-a-soup and green tea, but that just can't compare to home-made soup and a milo!
From Blog: Asabata Adventure Time
Bunny Class Teacher
non-member comment
Hey there, I am a random ex Bunny Class Teacher. (1996 I believe). I have been enjoying reading your blog and seeing the pictures. Fantastic memories.
From Blog: Clowns