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Year 3 of Ugly Christmas Sweater Galore!

Blog|更新日:2021年12月12日/日曜日

Hey y’all! 

 

Oh my gosh the third year of doing ugly Christmas sweaters is coming! I can’t believe it even turned into a tradition in the first place… This year though my sweater will be even crazier and uglier than the last! Y’all don’t even know what is coming… Here are a few photos of the last two years of sweaters!

 

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第3回英検に向けて

Blog|更新日:2021年12月9日/木曜日

1月にある2021年度第3回の英検に向けて、自習室で勉強する子が少しずつ増えてきました。

おうちで勉強して、分からない語句や文法について質問してくれる子。

レッスンのあとに居残りで勉強していく子。

「1月になってから始めるよ!」という子…。

 

それぞれのペースがあると思いますが、コツコツが一番確実に覚えられると思います。

小学生で準2級、2級を目指す子たちには「とにかく単語や熟語を1日2つずつでいいから覚えよう!」と話します。

 

年末年始のお休みを効率的に使って勉強してもらえると嬉しいです。

 

 

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12月

Blog|更新日:2021年12月8日/水曜日

気づけば今年も残り3週間ほどとなっています。

クリスマスやお正月が近づいてきていますね。

今年1年を振り返り、やり残したことがないようにしたいですね。

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Making Blankets for Winter

Blog|更新日:2021年12月7日/火曜日

I love winter. It’s not as scenic as fall, but it is cold. Do I like being cold? I’m not insane, so no. However, I do like wearing wool coats and sweaters, and I like curling up in a blanket on the couch, and I like drinking steaming hot cups of cocoa. These are all things that I can only do in the cold of winter. Therefore, I love winter.

 

I have quite a few blankets at home. More than I objectively need, honestly. It doesn’t get as cold in Ogaki as it does in Seattle, so I haven’t really needed more blankets. However, my sister back home has been shivering her way through fall and into winter, so she clearly needs more blankets. What’s the point of such cold weather if you can’t become a proper blanket burrito? Then it’s just needless suffering. Since I’ve gotten so much yarn lately for crochet, I decided to make my sister a blanket for Christmas to facilitate her blanket burrito-ing. It’s not a huge blanket, since I need to fit this thing in my suitcase along with all my other stuff when I visit, but it’s certainly big enough for a nice lap blanket while on the couch watching TV or playing video games.

 

It’s finished now, but I’m terrible about photographing my crafting projects, so here’s a WIP from early on, when it was about 1m wide and 41cm long. And I can attest that it’s very cozy, because when I work on it (while sitting on my sofa watching YouTube on the TV), the finished portions cover my lap and keep me nice and warm and comfy. I hope she enjoys it even more in her bitterly cold Seattle winters.

 

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Kentucky Fried Christmas Part 2

Blog|更新日:2021年12月6日/月曜日

How Did It Start?

 

The tradition started when an expat buying fried chicken at a KFC location in the neighborhood of Aoyama mentioned that, since there was no turkey in Japan, chicken was the next big thing. The store manager then proceeded to tell higher-ups about their findings. As a result, KFC launched its クリスマスにはケンタッキー (Kentucky for Christmas) campaign in 1974, which became an instant hit that has not lost any steam throughout the years.

 

By 1985, Kentucky had launched its Christmas Party Barrel, which includes eight pieces of chicken, a dessert (tiramisu for the 2019 set), a side dish, and a commemorative plate for a 4,100 yen.

 

This can be very expensive when compared to what Kentucky Fried Chicken offers in the United States, but in Japan KFC has a different kind of pedigree. This is one of the reasons foreigners are shocked when finding out how Japan associates KFC with Christmas. After all, in many other countries, Christmas is a holiday where people prepare spectacular dishes for Christmas dinners and lunches (depending on how each family celebrates, since there are families that will have dinner on Christmas Eve with one side of the family, and Christmas lunch with the other); and then you have Japanese people getting Kentucky Fried Chicken to celebrate an adopted holiday that has no true meaning for them. It’s a very fun example of how Western festivities can take a whole different shape in the Land of the Rising Sun.

 

The bizarre and incredibly popular custom has become so intense that people tend to pre-order their Party Barrels in advance so as to avoid the crowds or being left without KFC for Christmas.

 

Japanese people never fail to create unique customs, and this campaign is exactly one of them. If you happen to be in Japan during Christmas and would like to partake in this festivity, go line up at a KFC and get your Party Barrel. If you have Japanese friends in town, then make the day even better by celebrating with them, KFC style.

 

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