This was another busy day. Friday, September 2 started out as usual, with all five of us biking to school together. By now, Halyard and Kaiyo sometimes ride ahead and leave the rest of us in their dust. They can’t be bothered to slow down for me. And it’s probably a good thing because today I actually fell off the bike. Ugh! It really hurt too! I was just arriving at school and I guess I was playing chicken with a pole but that pole didn’t flinch so I lost! The electric bike is really heavy so once I started to lose my balance momentum and gravity took over. I fell right in the driveway area of school so that…
Our Japanese House
Saturday, August 27 Our Japanese house isn’t really a traditional Japanese house. It’s actually a Western style house in Japan. This house is about 2 years old and it was built by the current owners, Andrew and his wife. They have 3 girls. We are lucky because this house was built with a 5-person family in mind. It is about 1200 square feet, which is fine for us because our home in California is about 1600 square feet, so it’s not a huge difference. I think this is a pretty good sized house for Japan, however here in Minoh a lot of houses seem to be good sized. When you walk or bike around you see a lot of nice…