Today was the start of a three day weekend here in Japan. I had the day off because today is Labor Thanksgiving Day (which is a bit different and not nearly as exciting as American Thanksgiving). Kiri also decided to come up to Tokyo for the three day weekend! I got to spend most of the day running around Tokyo with her. We went to Hamamatsucho, ( Read more... )

I've been dealing with homesickness fairly well ever since of come back to Japan, but I definitely feel homesick today. I'll be celebrating a belated Thanksgiving with Leslie and Anna on Saturday, but it feels a bit lonely and sad to not be doing anything actually on Thanksgiving. To cheer myself up, I let myself indulge a bit tonight by getting ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. It's weird to think that at about this time last year I was celebrating Thanksgiving in Japan by eating KFC with meepalicious. It was good to be home this year though. We celebrated with Mom's side of the family, like we normally do for Thanksgiving. It went pretty well, all things considered. There's still a sadness to the ( Read more... )

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in America!

Nikko was a really nice trip. On the first day, we went to Toshogu Shrine. This is a shrine dedicated to the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Me and my Japanese history loving self sliently geeked out about this. The design of this shrine was quite different from all of the other shrines and temples I ( Read more... )

This past year has not always been the best. There have been some fantastic times, and some horrible times. But, despite the bad times, Thanksgiving makes me realize that I still have so much to be thankful for. I'm so thankful for my family members and my awesome friends (online and offline). I'm thankful that my Aunt Georgene is still around to ( Read more... )

Lol! What the fuck? The Macy's Thanksgiving parade just Rickrolled us. With the real Rick Astley. I am so amused. I then had to explain what a Rickroll was to my mom, but I don't think she got it. XD

I'm home for Thanksgiving break. It's good to have a chance to relax, even if it's only for a few days. And tomorrow I will get yummy Thanksgiving dinner! So, overall I am content.

Thanksgiving was fine. We went over to Aunt Georgene's for dinner. Ate tons of food. Surprisingly all the food turned out good (my aunt is not a cook). I think the only reason the food turned out okay was because my cousins were there to help. I almost escaped the kid's table this year, but there weren't enough chairs at the other table. So, I got ( Read more... )