On Wednesday, we made homemade tortillas for fajitas! Tortillas are incredibly expensive here, so this was a triumphant moment!   On Thursday we had language class as usual. Before class, […]

Tuesday (9/26) we went to Yokohama to sign up for the PSAT. When we bought our plane tickets, we did not realize until after, that our trip overlapped with the […]

It’s my birthday! I am officially sixteen years old! Finally! Towards the end, it always gets hard when people ask how old you are, and to still have to reply, […]

Friday was a rainy day… well, it was supposed to be. Uncle Shea found a cool park, earlier in his adventures, and he had hoped to show us the park […]

Thursday Mom made a life altering discovery. We can make banana bread in a rice cooker. YEEEEEEES!!!!!   Since it was Thursday, we did some practicing before our Japanese class […]

On Tuesday, Uncle Shea decided to visit our apartment. Mom and Dad decided to let the boys go pick him up from the train station, all by themselves. Mom took […]

Today we ventured to Yokohama, to visit with Chieko, Takenori, and their two boys, Sola and Watalu. Chieko and my Mom are cousins. We arrived at the museum before they […]

  Today we walked, in the rain, to a nearby church. The entire sermon and the hymns were in Japanese, of course, so we just listened and read our Bibles. Still, […]

Today we had lunch at Nozomi’s parents’ house. Yoshio, Tamiko, and one of their neighbors were invited too. When we got there, everything was set up, for the neighbor girl […]

Friday we ventured to Hon-Atsugi once more, and had dinner with Miho, a friend of Mom’s from online. Miho has two, sweet little boys, named Jin and Rei. Miho showed […]