Turns out it was to finish my bottle of Porfidio with! It has indeed been a night of indulgence: kalamata olive tapade, semi-dried tomatoes, greek feta, smoked salmon, basil pesto ( no parmesan – hooray…very had to find), rye french stick, strawberries and Shafer Vineyard Cellars Riesling (brought back from Oregon). All shared with Kimberly […]
Category Archives: Japan
Hirano sensei commented on how busy my day will be today – teaching 2 hours at a primary school in the afternoon, then coming back for a meeting with principal from next weeks primary school. Hmmm… I would count it a busy day if I’d had four classes this morning as well. As I didn’t […]
IT’S COLD! Agghh. Apparently the body heat of 40 students does do something to heat a classroom, cos, damn, when there’s just three students in a normal classroom, it’s like being locked in a freezer. In every class there are students with chilblains. In my special class, one girl’s fingers are ALL purply red, flaking […]
Whispy flurries dusting a sugar coating on the ground below. Wish I could go play *laments being ‘responsible grown-up figure* Snowing up you way, whitmanschild? I guess you probably woke up to snow resilient enough to stay on the ground. Somehow the cold is so much more bearable if it’s pretty. EDIT: So, I’m not […]
(just ONE? *incredulous tone*) that Japanese food is all incredibly healthy. Yet I crave decent, all vegetable, non-fried foods more than anything else here. I nice chickpea curry, or lentil something, I dunno. It’s all fine as long as I’m willing to order the ingrediants and cook, but nights like tonight, when I’m too tired […]
