surprising present

We won a prize of sweet from remodelling company this morning.It was so delicious!

The other day,remodelling company advertised to their customers.

My daughter wrote  sweets on a postcard and applied.

This is a picture of hers.It took for her to draw about 2 hours!

Happy Sunday

I  went to go shopping with my husband and daughter today. My husband usually stays  in my house and enjoys taking care of the garden. My daughter usually stays in our house or goes somewhere with her friends.

So it was rare case.

At first he went to barber. While he was having his hair cut, my daugher and I went shopping.After that we went to "GYUDON "restaurant.We see many "GYUDON"restaurants in Japan and prices are reasonable.

There were many people and enjoy eating lunch.

My daugher ordered "MAGURO YUKKE DON"

My husband ordered"SUMIBI TORIMAYO DON"

I ordered "OROSHIPONZU DON"

These were very delicious!

I was very surprised because the clerk served soon as soon as we ordered.Probably within 1 minutes...

We went shopping next to GUDON restaurant.The supermarket is very new and popular in my area.

We bought a lot of things.

At last, we went to the cake shop. Last week, we did not celebrate my daugher's birthday. She is 17 years old now. Today(6/14) is my wedding anniversary. 18 years have passed since we got married.

At night, we celebrated our memorial days and ate greentea decoration cake!

reunion and general meeting

I went to Kyoto with my friend last Sunday to attend my old school reunion and general meeting. I have not visited my old school since I graduated high school, so I was very excited.

 The participants were many kinds of generations(from 20～70) The classmates are my friend and me only.

It is located in a scenic area.

After general meeting,we were able to listen to an orchestra music.Performers are students who belong to orchestra club.When I was a high school student, I was a member of the club.So I remember those days and I was so moved.

We ate Japanese traditional lunch and walked around inside the school. A teacher guided us. The school was so large and we were about to get lost.According to her, many students are active in her school club.There were many trophyes.

At last we had some tea and Japanese sweets.It was very very delicious.The view was so good.

                                   I enjoyed so much. I wanna attend the reunion next year also.

lunch and chatting

I went to the Itarian restaurant with my friend last Saturday. This was my first time for us to have a lunch.
She used to be a student of my English school 2 years ago.




One day I happened to find her blog on the Internet  and left my comment.After that we sometimes sent some E-mail each other. At last we were able to enjoy eating lunch and chatting!
The lunch was very delicious.It was good atmospher.


By the way we have a lot of in common. I am very surprised of it.
She also sometimes receives foreigners in her house.
I have two children and she has two children.
I have some favortite movies and she also likes the same movies!
We also  have the same common things except these.It is amazing.

So we enjoyed chatting for some hours and time went by so quickly.

talk about our house and...

I am living with my family(husband, daughter pet cat)now.My house is very old  Japanese style.My parents in law used to live for many years. It was built for 38 years ago.

I moved from Kyoto to Shiga with my family for 5 years ago.
Before we moved, we lived in a very small apartment in Kyoto.
We had only 3 rooms,so my children were not able to have their own rooms,so we decided to move here which is my husband hometown.

At first we lived with my parents in law.But after a few month, I was depressed because I had much stress at that time.
My parents in law loved their grandkids.So when I scolded my children,
my father in law and I often argued.

My husband came back home late every night.They went to bed at 9,so my mother in law was not able to sleep,so she also had much stress.


One day, my father in law happened to buy a neighbor's land because next door senior person moved to another place.We were very lucky because the cost was too cheap like small car.

At that time, my mother in law had been wanted to make her own small house.But my husband and I did not  agree with her.If we would build a small house, probably my parents in law only use it.
We suggested them to make a family size house in neighbor's land.

They asked us( my husband and I) build  and design   a new house.We received their suggestion and thought about the new house plan.We decides to live separately.

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This is my parents in law house!
It was built for 1.5 year ago. My husband and I designed it.I believe my parents in law love it.
We seldom argue each other. It is good distance.
We have a good relationship.
When my parents in law go on a trip, I use this house.I invite my friends and have some tea or lunch.

The other day, I invited my city International society members and had a lunch.We enjoyed talking about a lot of things.
These members off course support and help international friendship.






Any way, I enjoy spending my life.I started receiving foreigners after we lived separately.
There are 9 rooms in my old house.We can offer some rooms. Some guests (from Canada,America,Germany)came to my house and stayed.
If my parents in law and I continued to live together and bear that situation, I have not been active as a hostmother.

Time went by very quickly

Time went by very quickly last week.We had to say good bye yesterday morning.Probably they have arrived their hometown.

I have been very busy for 1 week,but I was able to enjoy a lot.At first I had no plan to follow their group sightseeing.But when I took them to the city hall and station, I decided to follow them.

Although I have been staying in my city for 5 years, I don't know about my city well.Actually it is known as

town of merchant and there are some  famous pottery shops.I enjoyed going sightseeing and could learn about my city.It was very good opportunity for me.

We were able to see my city mayor last Tuesday.He welcomed them so much and
enjoyed having a pleasant.

One student asked him that what is the reason why he wanted to become a mayor.
He replied that he wanted to help and support citizens and wanted them to thanks for him. I thought it was good question.



Every evening and night, we enjoyed eating dinner and chatting.I often made them laugh.My English was sometimes broken especially when I drunk "Cyuuhai" I did my best to cook for them.And when I was busy, my mother in law cooked  for us.It was very delicous!

We had great time and I can't forget such a wonderful memory like this.

I hope to see them again!