Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Last winter was a chilly time in the Krueger house, you may recall. I’d heard horror stories of $500-600 electric bills, and without money to spare, I was…how shall we say…a heater Nazi. š My back hurt from shivering all the time, and we didn’t get completely unpacked from our move for nearly six months…
Heave, ho! That’s not what these Japanese guys were saying as we hoisted this very heavy mallet high before letting it rain down on the glutinous rice balled up in the usu, but maybe it’s close. What’s an usu? That thing with the rice in it that we’re hitting with the kine (mallet). Chris and…
So the other day I parked the Scoop near Shonandai Station. I was a little early for Happy English class (yes, that’s the real name) and I was feeling the effects of skipping coffee that morning–as in, my head was extra boring. This is not a good way to start an hour-and-a-half English class. I’d…
“Activity information Life Chapel International (Kamakura photography society): Over the finder of the lens, let’s go to photograph the small miracle that God gave!! As for the scenery which I do not usually notice, I can feel attachment to the article which God designed by he stops, and observing it. I want to hold photography…
Hikichidai Park is just down the river from our place, so we walked over around sunset in today’s pleasantly warm weather. Chris jogged; I took pictures. Then I walked over to the Seven Ereven to pay our bills and pick up some seasonal kit kats. We recommend: Royal Milk Tea Kit Kats.
This must be why the sign for Koryo Park is adorned with Japanese maple leaves. Chris and I took a delightful afternoon stroll here after the annual squadron family Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. We waited and prayed for orders to Japan for months–years??–before we got here, and I’m so thankful to be here still. I’m thankful…
My pre-deployment terror of deployments, like most anticipation, over-estimated how difficult/tragic/different life would be. The best analogy I can come up with is that deployments are like a foreign language. Learning a new language is difficult and feels unnatural at first. It’s annoying to be slightly out of your element all the time. It’s inconvenient…
