One of the neat experience you can have here in Japan is teaching English to the Japanese. They are very interested in learning English. I taught a class of 10-14 women Conversational English for 6 months, then I started subbing full-time and had to pass my class on. I taught once a week for 2 hours and made $100-$150 depeding on the number of women in each class. It was a great cultural experience. [Read more…]
Shipwreck Beach
There is an interesting place to visit that is about 30-45 mins from our house, it’s called Shipwreck Beach. It’s a beach, unfortunately littered by lots of trash, that also has 3 wrecked ships on the beach. The reason it’s so trashy is because the Japanese use the beach for a dumping ground for trash. Despite the trash it’s a pretty neat place. You literally have to drive up a road made of [Read more…]
Beef and Garlic Festival
We took a day trip awhile ago to the Beef & Garlic festival in the Garlic capitol of Japan. We had pre-bought tickets for the ‘meals’ which were a plastic container with raw beef, garlic, vegetables, and a super yummy sauce. The sauce is a locally produced soy/garlic sauce and it’s soooooo yummy! We bought a bottle to bring home with us and have since bought a 2nd bottle at the fish market. [Read more…]
Fishing
Mr. B took the kids fishing yesterday (Sat.) morning. They used Doh-jos (not sure how to spell so spelling as it sounds) as bait. They look like a cross between an minnow and an eel. Apparently they work great as bait. Mr. B got Bea’s pole all set and in the water and within minutes she had her first fish! She caught 3. Boo caught 6 and Mr. B caught 1 because most of his time was spent putting [Read more…]
Japanese Interesting Parade Event
The Japanese have many festivals and parades especially during the Summer. We went to a parade and found this to be an interesting section of the parade, that provided a little culture shock for us. We are enjoying the parade when suddenly around the corner came several naked booty guys wearing weird hats with painted faces, talk about cracking the Americans up:
Japanese guys squatting and waiting [Read more…]
Japanese Rice Farmers & Rice Fields
Rice is a big business here in Japan and rightly so. The soil here in Japan is so dark and look so rich compared to American soil. Driving in the countryside you can see Japanese rice farmers working 7 days a week from sun up to sun down. The Japanese have a very serious work ethic and even today many still plant rice by hand. The majority of the fields we have drove by have the rice being planted [Read more…]
Cherry Blossoms
Cherry Blossoms are a big thing here in Japan, so much that the Japanese have festivals to celebrate them blooming. They usually bloom in April (early or late depending on the weather and location) and only last for 2 weeks before they all fall off leaving the tree bare again. They come in all shades of pink to really light pink to super dark pink.
See how many blossoms are on the tree!
Cherry Blossom [Read more…]
When Taking The ‘Shortcut’ Isn’t Such A Good Idea!
We really enjoy taking day trips, especially in the company of friends. We drove extensively all over Iceland with our good friends and have drove quite a bit of Japan with friends. In April 2006 we decided to head up to see a few sights, and Mr. B having heard that the mountain roads were now cleared and opened, decided to take us all on a ‘shortcut’ on the way home. What resulted was literally [Read more…]
Seagull Island Hachinohe, Japan
Seagull Island is an interesting place, it’s literally a once in a lifetime experience. It’s also one of those experiences you must see to believe kinda thing. From March to August it is the breeding ground for literally tens of thousands of birds. Making the dash up the stairs without an umbrella is risky because there are so many birds flying over you! We’ve made the dash umbrella free two times [Read more…]
