Archive for November 2011

As many of you know, Thanksgiving is an American holiday that is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. みなさんご存知のように、感謝祭は１１月の第四木曜日に祝われるアメリカの祝日です。   It is more than just a day off and more than a feast of turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. It is a time when we are reminded to be thankful for everything we…

It is finally starting to get cold in Nagasaki so we know winter is on its way. Throughout October, we had unseasonably warm and wet weather.   The temperatures in Nagasaki on Wednesday dropped below 15 degrees Celsius.   In Rob’s hometown of Chicago, temperatures were at a high of 6.6 degrees Celsius and a…

Although we are only in the second week of November, everywhere we look we see signs of Christmas. Lighted Christmas trees fill storefronts, coffee shops sell holiday drinks and sweets, and workers have already begun building the giant Christmas tree at the Nagasaki train station. As soon as Halloween ended, the jack`o lantern and ghost…

週末になるとたたられたように雨がふりますねぇ。ベイサイドウォーク、マラソンに 参加された方は大変だったんじゃないかなぁ。 雨の日を楽しく過ごす方法はあるのでしょうか？誰かいいアイデアが あれば是非伝授してください。  

Happy November! In celebration of the fall season and our love for playing with kids, we are having a special Playday-English event on November 19. Playday students, their friends and kids from the community are all invited to come participate in a morning of fun and of course, some English. We will play several games…