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Bamboo Forests... Silent Refreshment: What's in a Name?
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Bamboo Forests. Silent Refreshment. Tales of life and faith in a small town on the coast of Japan. Friday, March 23, 2007. What's in a Name? At least, this is what I imagine whenever I am, in response to a polite inquiry, obligated to list three out of the eight schools my husband teaches at;. 5-chu, 7-chu, 8-chu. Using the respective Japanese pronunciations for the numbers. In English this would translate roughly into “. Junior highs five, seven, and eight. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Bamboo Forests... Silent Refreshment: Pity the Japanese Comedian
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Bamboo Forests. Silent Refreshment. Tales of life and faith in a small town on the coast of Japan. Sunday, April 30, 2006. Pity the Japanese Comedian. Was at the crest of the hill, the sight of which was unhindered and would serve to encourage stragglers onwards. The overall time was unimportant, for the only goal was to finish. The men readied themselves. A gun sounded, and they were off, jogging easily and remaining in a pack. The poor chumps didn’t have a clue of what was in store. This time the comed...
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Bamboo Forests... Silent Refreshment: KAT- Matsudo
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Bamboo Forests. Silent Refreshment. Tales of life and faith in a small town on the coast of Japan. Wednesday, August 16, 2006. Second entry in the KAT series). Let us not speak of the train rides. They were wholly uninteresting, except for the remarkable lack of people crushing themselves into the cars due to our trip falling in the middle of Obon. Let us speak instead about the wonders of giant robot heads… because that’s what we saw at the Bandai Museum. Gundams and the brightly uniformed Bandai attend...
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Bamboo Forests... Silent Refreshment: A Photo of a Photo of a Mirror
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Bamboo Forests. Silent Refreshment. Tales of life and faith in a small town on the coast of Japan. Tuesday, May 02, 2006. A Photo of a Photo of a Mirror. For the first time this year, I went for a walk. My original mission was to sneak close to the wall of a neighboring home and snap some close-up pictures of the cherry tree as its blossoms waned. This soon changed into snapping photos of random things. What can I say, I'm that kind of photographer. That figure in the distance is a distorted picture of m...
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Bamboo Forests... Silent Refreshment: KAT- The Beginning
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Bamboo Forests. Silent Refreshment. Tales of life and faith in a small town on the coast of Japan. Monday, August 14, 2006. First entry in the KAT. Kickin' Around Tokyo" series). As we peeked outside in the pre-dawn hours, it became painfully obvious that the low-hanging clouds had no intention of letting even the tiniest bit of sunshine filter through their ranks. This did not bode well for our plans. Then it dawned on us. We were going to Tokyo, the urban playground of Japan. Instead of going t...You h...
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Bamboo Forests... Silent Refreshment: Check it out!
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Bamboo Forests. Silent Refreshment. Tales of life and faith in a small town on the coast of Japan. Friday, June 30, 2006. It was bound to happen of course, but now it's official- the splitting of my time between two blogs. Right now you may be thinking, "Great. sooo, I should expect an update here about every 6 months? A valid point, but first I urge you to hop on over and check it out. Truth be told (for reasons described in its inaugural post), blog 2. With all that said, stay cool!
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Bamboo Forests... Silent Refreshment: The Time Has Come
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Bamboo Forests. Silent Refreshment. Tales of life and faith in a small town on the coast of Japan. Friday, March 16, 2007. The Time Has Come. I had been dreading this day for quite a while. Although I couldn’t accurately predict when the inevitable would take place, there was no denying that every week brought it one step closer. And then it happened… the ATM spit out the bankbook with a whirr of distaste, refusing to have anything further to do with my well-worn companion. That indicated what company ha...
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Bamboo Forests... Silent Refreshment: One Stamp Please
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Bamboo Forests. Silent Refreshment. Tales of life and faith in a small town on the coast of Japan. Thursday, January 12, 2006. Here I am once more. It’s always the same, beginning with the sliding doors closing behind me with a dull, decisive *thud*. I quickly ease myself into an obscure corner and cautiously survey my surroundings. Kitte o ichimai onegaishimasu. Kitte o ichimai onegaishimasu. Kitte o ichimai onegaishimasu. Konnichiwa. Kitte o ichimai onegaishimasu. In the past, communicating my desire t...