Another easter eggs

I know Easter eggs are "eggs" .
But --- yesterday we made popcorn Easter eggs.

Today it's rainy again, and cold. It's difficult to adjust to  this changeable climate. Tomorrow I'll attend an event as a supporter, the event is  that  my Costa Rican friend introduces her country. Unfortunately she'll go back to Costa Rica at the end of March. The last trip in Japan she chose was a trip to Hiroshima. She visited Hirosima this week.  I want to know what she felt seeing those monuments of the A-bomb. (Hiroshima is one of an atomic-bombed city.)

And on this Sunday Yuki and I are going to go to TOKYO to meet my mother.
Have a nice weekend.

Finaly it's sunny today.

I  hanged out the laundry, and aired the FUTON, though I was concerning about pollen. Anyway it's sunny and warm. When we had breakfast, Yuki said "It's a little bit hot, this room." He is right. When I got up, I tuned on the heater as usual, and I put on a thick sweater. It was "hot" even for me. So now I don't turn on the heater. I can't believe it because it was really cold yesterday.

Unfortunately from this month I don't have an adult lesson in the morning. She started to work part-time. For her it's wonderful to get a job and to have a chance to go outside. So I "am going to " spend my free time in the morning on Wednesday to study English ---probably. (Now I'm writing this diary in English.)

Today in TOCHIGI, it is a day of entrance exam for public high school. Every junior high school student who is in the third grade is "now" taking the test. Three of my students are doing, too. I hope they will pass the exam. Last week they made their Easter-eggs using "balls" instead of real eggs. I let them to do art and crafts for only 3 minutes. So they just put some stickers, but they seemed to enjoy it.





Do you have any special plans for Easter?

Monday came

Today it is raining. For a few days we have had a little bit bad weather, though I don't need to worry about pollen.
On March 3, it was HINA festival. We(Yuki and I) didn't do any thing special. I bought KUSA-mochi yesterday. And we ate the leftover for our breakfast. I already put away HINA-dolls. Because  it is said that if we don't put away HINA-dolls immediately after the festival, girls have trouble getting married. Instead of Hina dolls I decorate Easter-eggs on the shelf in the entrance hall.

In our classes, students alreday enjoyed making Easter eggs with marzipan.

Have a nice week.



A new week has already started.

Now nobody is here except me. This weekend my younger daughter stayed with us. After we had lunch together she went back to TOKYO.
I'm really happy to stay with daughters, so I always break down after they go back to TOKYO. Though on the surface I'm OK, to tell the truth I'm discouraged. Especially until tomorrow I have no lessons, so I have to spend two nights alone.
Sometimes having classes is tough to me, but having class makes me feel alive.

Well, well, do you have Rollstrand dishes? The other day I met the cups. Once I saw the cups, I really loved them, so I checked the maker. At that time I didn't know the maker. These days I've gotten away from  buying new dishes, but-----.

After the earthquake many dishes broke, and my cupboard were really organized. I try to keep the condition, but ----.

Now it's past 6 PM. Today I had lunch too much, so I'll skip my dinner.

 I'll tidy-up bookshelves that became very full of the books and my materials of lessons.

Monday has started

Did you enjoy your weekend? I did.

On Saturday, in the morning I went to workout while Yuki went to golf practice. In the afternoon, as you know, I cleaned the house and decorate Hina dolls. Then we went to a French restaurant. It's our favorite restaurant.

We ordered a single serving for each dish. For me it's difficult to eat out one plate stake, these days, even it's small. And "we" have to care about our LDL. So sharing a single serving is a good thing.

On Sunday, in the morning "we" went to golf practice, though I just hit 30 balls.
And we went to help my friend her piano concert.

It was a really cozy piano recital of her students. Though now I have a few students taking my piano lessons, these days I don't hold such an event. I'm thinking when I close my piano class, I'll do that with my graduates and friends.

Then we went home, and I cooked dinner. we had dinner, watched TV. Our weekend was finished.

Now it's Monday. This week I don't have lessons at night except on Tuesday. So Instead of English lessons, I'll study English  for my self. (Can you hear Jan?)
Have a nice week.

Preparing for March

I put away Valentine's decoration and put Hina dolls.

I found an interesting site, and "learned" what is HINA-matsuri.


I have a set of Hina-dolls, but it's troublesome to decorate all of dolls, so I just put an emperor and and empress. I hope my daughters will have a great partner each other.

Well, let me introduce a Japanese condiment called SHIO KOUJI (rice malt with salt).

I put lotus roots in a pot and cover them with water, and add a table spoon of SHIO KOUJI. Then I boiled them a few minutes. DONE.

Though I prepared red mayonnaise, we didn't need it. Thanks to SHIO KOUJI, we enjoyed original lotus roots. Have you ever used this kind of malt as a condiment?

After Valentien's day

Today it was day for adult lessons, and I got them. WOOOOOO!!!!

And one of adult lessons was the last lesson of this year. She'll start to work (now she is a perfect housewife), so that she will not be able to come to take my lesson. I'll miss her.

Today she and I talked about New Year's resolutions. Though New Year's is a good time to make resolutions, March is also a good time to make resolutions because in Japan a new term begins in April at school and work.

Have you made any New Year's resolutions? I want to exercise twice a week, and until now I do it.
What accomplishment are you most of proud of last year? I'm proud of organising all classes without problems.
What was the best restaurant you went to last year?
It was "Coulis Rouge", that is a French restaurant.

A year ago today, we had lot of snow. Fortunately this year we don't have snow, though in northern Japan they are really troubled with lots of snow. And in March we had "the" earthquake. I don't know what will happen. But I'll do my best to do what I'm able to do now.