Invited to a Japanese home

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Invited to a Japanese home

Posted on 09 March 2007
Tags: Expat musings

Just a quick entry to say the kangaroo and I are going to stay at his colleague’s home on Saturday night so we can ski/snowboard early Sunday morning in Nagano.

We looked up our Culture Shock! book on Japan and it says it’s an absolute honour to be invited to a Japanese friend/colleague’s house. Not only that, tomodachino uchi ni tomarimasu (we’re staying overnight). Tomorrow after a Starbucks’ brekkie, we’re going to buy a nice bottle of Hokkaido sake and a big box of fancy chocolates wrapped in wafer-thin crepe pastry.

English to Japanese dictionary — check. Japanese grammar textbook — check. We’ll be needing these.

Weee….back to travelling.

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2 Responses to “Invited to a Japanese home”

The Aglaians Says:
March 9th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
hey, glad you cheered up! i will be there soon!!! =)
Big Roar Says:
March 12th, 2007 at 10:46 am
sorry babe, sometimes my mood swings can be terrible and when i see you online during a bad moment i tend to rant.

things are generally good over here.