Queen Elizabeth II used this latin phrase, meaning “horrible year” or “year of horrors” to describe 1992. For her, that year had been a bad one, most of her children got divorced and one of her favourite homes caught fire. This phrase randomly popped into my head last week. It was Tuesday. I had spent the day… [Read more…]
November 21, 2010
Last week, I was lucky enough to visit 2 new places, 1 not far from me, and 1 in the north of the Tohoku Region. I thought I would share some of the views of these. The first trip was to Hirosaki in Aomori prefecture, the most northern prefecture on mainland Honshu. I headed up here… [Read more…]
September 14, 2010
During my holiday, the time that wasn’t spent gathering blisters in Kyoto or travelling around various prefectures cheering on my basketball boys was spent commuting between my 2 beloved junior high schools to prepare for the speech contest. There are 2 different categories – recital and speech. I had a student from each school in… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011
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