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I am so happy having
many blogging friends since I started writing this blog in February,
2011. It has been a real pleasure and learning from oversea friends since
then. Thank you very much for your friendship and you all are really dear to me.
I am a Japanese woman
who were born between loving parents in 1955. Both of them
were so deft at doing everything and I really feel thankful for the love I
had from them and the things they taught me. I live in Yamaguchi-pref. where is
the southernmost prefecture of Honshu (main-land) in Japan. I was married to my
husband in 1977 when I was 22 years old. Our mutual acquaintance
introduced us, so ours was an old-style arranged marriage. Although we haven't
been able to blessed with a child, I feel so lucky having really happy
marriage life with warmhearted husband.
I've been teaching
English at home since I was 30 years old. I was so blessed with many
wonderful students up until today. If it weren't for them, my life wouldn't
have been so rewarding. They are the ones taught me how important to love
others, not only being loved. The other blessing I had was the experiences of
trip to foreign countries. I've been to nearly 7~8 countries. I
think I will have to write about these marvelous trips and memories in my blog.
My husband retired from
his 41 years bank clerk job in 2010. He has two hobbies now which makes
me happy that he can enjoy his retired life. One is playing saxophone; he now
joined the band group made up with senior people. The other is making soba noodle
which he started right after he retired.
(Here are pictures
before and after p;)
(from
post of October 14, 2012)
October 31st is
our 35th Wedding Anniversary;
I cannot believe this
great deal of time has passed!!! I always felt funny to hear the elder
people keep saying "Time Flies" when young. It sure is ironic
that it's my turn to feel it first hand, p;) Well, hubby doesn't seem
to be very happy my posting our picture (you know how Japanese men are, not
only? haha,)
Coming anniversary
really makes me recall the days we had.
From this page, I learned that what is the
anniversary gift for the set year. And we call the anniversary with special way
from these gifts in Japan, ours called for example, "coral wedding
(anniversary) 珊瑚婚式, sangokonshiki"
As some of you might
remember, we were introduced by mutual acquaintance who happened to live
next door with my husband in 1977. Old fashioned arranged marriage and we
married only four months later. He was single living alone at that time.
After we met, he called me almost every day p;)
As I knew my hormone
disorder due to little malfunction of pituitary gland, I started infertility
treatment right after we married (he knew about it in advance). Well, it has
been a bit tough several years both mentally and financially. As for mentally,
I have to add the busybodies' gossip; whew, it sure last long and I
thought later that only if the air-conditioning had been more common at that
time, I wouldn't have to hear that much. Mothers group (about 10 years
older than me) were joyfully chatting and laughing, which were
clearly heard from outside, even from inside of their house while I was walking
pass. Haha, young newlyweds suddenly became neighbor must have been an
easy target. I was reminded how the woman without children can be seen or
treated in society.
I am so grateful for my
husband for his understanding; if it were not his support, I wouldn't have been
able to get through these period.
Right after I gave up
the treatment, I needed something to spend my affluent time and boost
my spirit up for both of us. Since I started learning English by
enjoying bi-lingual system, I didn't have to spend time with these
trivial matter, haha. After I passed the certain level of the
government supported proficiency test, I was lucky to be able to teach English
at home and have had many students who are all so dear to me. I must admit that
time has gone really quickly since
I started to engage in teaching when I was 30 years old.
Thank God with
hubby's patience and his bank clerk job which required long working
hours, I could continue the work of till late at night (around 21:30).
Through good times and
bad times, you have been always on my side, especially when I my family were
sick and lost them. Love you always my sweetheart♡♡♡ I know you don't read
this blog, p;)
(from post of October 30th, 2012)
*Went to see fire work*
Yesterday night (29th),
we went to see the fire works. Yes, around this of the season p;) For the
Eve of the Civic Festival, next city has the
"Congratulatory Dream Fire Works" and not only business
enterprise but also citizens can be involved by paying some amount of
money. (for many categories like birthdays, many kinds of anniversaries
and so on) The citizens paid money have seats with tables
(there were 5,000~6,000 seats) and have a really good view(^_^)彡☆
As you can see from the
date, it was put off from Saturday to Monday due to the long waited a bit of
rain. My husband was given tickets from who had to cancel to go. I
thought how lucky and meant a lot for us especially for our
anniversary. I had never seen them at such close place and really enjoyed
them. Haha, some of my bad pictures down there. I have noticed that how
difficult to take shots of them.
*Anniversary Lunch*
Today
(30th), we went to have anniversary lunch. As I wished to have a Western
Meal for a change, we had steak course. So sorry for the bad picture, I think
the light disturbed the color. Chestnuts potage soup was
first experience and steak was really nice as well. For me, these type of
meals are a big treat and fancy (dainty?) ♡♡♡