domingo
My first Christmas chicken!
Japanese Christmas
●Christmas Cake
●Christmas Chicken
●Christmas Date
●Christmas Costumes
In my class at the technical college, there are a few students from China who I teach. For their last class this year, I decided to teach a simple Christmas song and some vocabulary. They were just as confused as I was -- and in a state of severe culture shock!
The Japanese Christmas is some strange mix of Halloween, Valentine's, and all the winter holidays mashed together. I didn't have Christmas Cake this year nor did I go on a date to a "Fashion Hotel"... but I did wear a costume and get to eat Christmas Chicken. But... before I went out for my Christmas Chicken I had a strange phone call.
I didn't recognize the number and had a bit of a hang over, so I didn't answer the phone... but they kept calling, so I decided to just answer. It was KURONEKO TAKYUBIN -- the dudes that deliver frozen foods, flowers, and live things. They said they had been trying to deliver something that apparently had the wrong address, but it had my phone number on it. A clever someone who doesn't know my address challenged the delivery dudes. The sender just wrote Kumamoto, and my town name and phone number. The card just said "あなたへの気持ちをこめてMerry Christmas" and was signed in CRAZY KANJI that isn't in my name dictionary... and had no return address... Can't believe this... Flowers and feathers? This dude apparently knows absolutely nothing about me or didn't know what he was ordering. It must have cost a fortune-- and the nerve to send it annonymously. It is obviously from outside the prefecture. MY BAD! It wasn't annonimous... I found out who it was... HOW SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!! (I am such a bitch!) 
For those who don't believe the weird costume thingi, here is a pic of me as a Santa and Kazu dressed as a frog! Yes... it is green, but other than that it has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas... am I right?
In any case, I was able to spend a little bit of time back in reality at my friend Renie's house. She and her husband had me over for Christmas Eve Dinner. She is so full of cheer! She made a Christmas chicken (^_^) It was my first time! It was an interesting Christmas, let me say. ¶ domingo, diciembre 24, 2006
Japanese Christmas
●Christmas Cake
●Christmas Chicken
●Christmas Date
●Christmas Costumes
In my class at the technical college, there are a few students from China who I teach. For their last class this year, I decided to teach a simple Christmas song and some vocabulary. They were just as confused as I was -- and in a state of severe culture shock!
The Japanese Christmas is some strange mix of Halloween, Valentine's, and all the winter holidays mashed together. I didn't have Christmas Cake this year nor did I go on a date to a "Fashion Hotel"... but I did wear a costume and get to eat Christmas Chicken. But... before I went out for my Christmas Chicken I had a strange phone call.
I didn't recognize the number and had a bit of a hang over, so I didn't answer the phone... but they kept calling, so I decided to just answer. It was KURONEKO TAKYUBIN -- the dudes that deliver frozen foods, flowers, and live things. They said they had been trying to deliver something that apparently had the wrong address, but it had my phone number on it. A clever someone who doesn't know my address challenged the delivery dudes. The sender just wrote Kumamoto, and my town name and phone number. The card just said "あなたへの気持ちをこめてMerry Christmas" and was signed in CRAZY KANJI that isn't in my name dictionary... and had no return address... Can't believe this... Flowers and feathers? This dude apparently knows absolutely nothing about me or didn't know what he was ordering. It must have cost a fortune-- and the nerve to send it annonymously. It is obviously from outside the prefecture. MY BAD! It wasn't annonimous... I found out who it was... HOW SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!! (I am such a bitch!) 
For those who don't believe the weird costume thingi, here is a pic of me as a Santa and Kazu dressed as a frog! Yes... it is green, but other than that it has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas... am I right?
In any case, I was able to spend a little bit of time back in reality at my friend Renie's house. She and her husband had me over for Christmas Eve Dinner. She is so full of cheer! She made a Christmas chicken (^_^) It was my first time! It was an interesting Christmas, let me say. ¶ domingo, diciembre 24, 2006
