Welcome and farewell party

We had a welcome and farewell party.

It is really good to have new coworker.
But it is really sad to lose coworker.

A girl came to our store to work together.
It was first time to see her.
She looks a very nice girl.
She is a year older than me.
I hope we will be good friends.

We had a good coworker who was transferred.
We were very sad because he is liked by everyone.
I cannot believe he will leave our store.

I hope we all can meet up some time!

Think about foreign food

I went to Hard Rock Cafe with Brian.
It was third times to go there.

We ate Mexican food and salad.
I had never eaten Mexican food before I saw Brian.

He showed me a lot of things.
Mostly foreign food.
I know about Chinese and Korean food a little bit.
But he showed me American food, Mexican food,
Thai food, Italian food, Balinese food, Indian food...etc.
They are very interesting for me.

And it changed my mind.
I thought the best food is Japanese food.
So I had never tried to eat foreign food which I had never eaten.
I was silly.

Brian took salad for me.

And he made cute face

Hair : lettuce

Eyebrow : shrimp

Glasses : onion

Eye : olive

Ear : bread

Mouth : tomato

I got mad at...

I was waiting for calling from Brian today.

He is in Yokohama which is close to Tokyo.
He siad to me he is going home on 11th.
And he asked me if I am free. So I didn't have any plans.

I send email to him yesterday. "Are you going home tomorrow?"
But he didn't write back. I thought he was too busy to send email to me.
I decided to wait his calling.

I got up early to answer his calling. BUT he didn't call me until afternoon.
I got mad at him getting more and more...:(
My mom asked me if I go to the temple with my mom and dad, brother.
I went to the temple with my family.

When I was in mom's car, Brian called me.
"Hi! How are you?" He sounded happy. I told him about waiting his calling.
He asked me "Are you free tomorrow?"
My mom asked me to buy cosmetics in Nanba. I can go there with him.
But I was angry. So I said "I'm going out!" He said "Ok"
....What? Why did you say "OK", Brian?
I said to him "I have to go to Nanba because my mom asked me to get new cosmetics." He said "Can I go there with you?"

I made up with him.

It is Japanese food restaurant which is traditional Japanese style.

My dad and brother

We went to the temple to do good business.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Brian's street performance!

I went to Kobe to watch Brian's street performance today.
It was windy but the performance was really good!

He juggles with a lot of stuff. Balls, knives, boxes, sticks with fire...etc.
And he rides the loooooooong unicycle.
I love it :)

Usually, he speaks Japanese very well like me!
But when he did the performance, he spoke funny Japanese.
It is one of the causes of fun when he does performance :)

Looooooong unicycle!

He juggles sticks with fire!

Welcome back, Anna!

Anna came to Japan again!
She went to home (Canada) before last Christmas.
We had never seen each other for 2 weeks.
I missed Anna so much.

I went to the airport to pick her up.
But her plane didn't arrive on time.
It was first time that I went to the airport to pick someone up.
(I had been there to say goodbye some times.)
And I have never been to foreign country.
So I didn't know that the plane was late.
I worried about her so much... I thought her plane broke.

After a hour, she arrived at the airport WITH a problem.
Her baggage was gone!
I cannot believe this problem. Is it usual?
But Anna is fine :) I was so glad that she could come to Japan safely.

And we went home safely with mac-mobile :)

New Years nabe party!

Have you ever eaten "Nabe"?
Nabe means...umm...I have to use a dictionary:(
Ok, I found "Nabe" in my dictionary.
It means..."a dish (meal) cooked in a pot at the table."
There are many kinds of nabe in Japan and they are very popular in winter.

Ritsuko made nabe for us. It was really good!
I really really really like her. She is so sweet and funny.

I introduced my friend Kazu for my friends.

It was weird how to meet Kazu.
My mom and his dad are very good friends.
Kazu's dad said to my mom "Kazu has no girlfriend. He is 29 years old.
I worry about his marriage."
My mom said "I have a daughter who has no boyfriend."
And we knew each other. This is very weird.
But I think we will be good friends.
I really hope that we will be good FRIENDS.

Top: Steve, Maki, Tiffany (left to right)

Bottom: Kazu, Kel, Kathy, Tiho, Ritsuko

George is very cute:)

Happy New Year for my friends!

I paid a visit to a temple on New Year's Day with my friends.
Many Japanese people go to a temple or a shrine on New Year's Day.
And we hope "This year will be good for me."

How did you celebrate New Year's Day?

Saori, Maki, Sayori

It was very beautiful.

The first sunrise of the year.