We just experienced a minor earthquake. It was small enough that it just felt like there was a three second road construction going on outside, only without tons of noise. One of our friends from California was unimpressed and called us noobs.
Last week we were walking in town and happened to look up and see a dark puff of smoke coming from the top of Sakurajima, our volcano. It only lasted a very short time and was just that one puff, rather like the volcano burped at us. Apparently it does that often enough that one of our friends who lives in the northern part of the city occasionally gets gray streaks on her laundry when its hanging outside drying. We don't have that problem where we live because we live far enough away with several small mountains between us and the city.
Just wanted to share the excitement.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Just a Quick Post
Hello all,
I have a cold so I'm going to be brief. I figured out how to add links to this page. If you look to the right of this post you will now see a section titled "Other sites with info about Us in Japan." This title may change as it was just the first thing I could come up with. The links below the title will direct you to Eli's YouTube account, "videos," and our new picture gallery, "photos." As of right now there are only some pictures up, but we promise more will be posted shortly, along with captions and possibly categorization to give you better understanding of what the pictures are showing. Be patient with this process as we are just learning the Photo sharing site.
This weekend we went to a party at the apartment of our Scottish friend, Cara. She prepared some Scottish food (many guests also brought food) and had Scottish music playing, to celebrate St. Andrew's Day. St. Andrew is the patron Saint of Scotland. It was a pretty cool party, in one of her rooms a large group of guests ended up watching Braveheart, which we decided to skip in favor of good conversation in the adjoining room. I think that afterwords I felt much less upset at having missed Thanksgiving. I guess I just needed a fix of good food and company!
I have a cold so I'm going to be brief. I figured out how to add links to this page. If you look to the right of this post you will now see a section titled "Other sites with info about Us in Japan." This title may change as it was just the first thing I could come up with. The links below the title will direct you to Eli's YouTube account, "videos," and our new picture gallery, "photos." As of right now there are only some pictures up, but we promise more will be posted shortly, along with captions and possibly categorization to give you better understanding of what the pictures are showing. Be patient with this process as we are just learning the Photo sharing site.
This weekend we went to a party at the apartment of our Scottish friend, Cara. She prepared some Scottish food (many guests also brought food) and had Scottish music playing, to celebrate St. Andrew's Day. St. Andrew is the patron Saint of Scotland. It was a pretty cool party, in one of her rooms a large group of guests ended up watching Braveheart, which we decided to skip in favor of good conversation in the adjoining room. I think that afterwords I felt much less upset at having missed Thanksgiving. I guess I just needed a fix of good food and company!
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