Welcome to another edition of the Deskwarming Diaries, where an ALT suddenly remembers she hasn’t updated her blog in wayyyyyy too long. Today’s edition includes small fish, school stories, good news, snow, and New Years festivities. Let’s jump in! Today’s lunch...
In America, I always celebrated the new year with platters of meat and cheese, sitting on the couch and watching the ball drop on TV. That’s a liiiitle bit hard to do in the middle-of-the-countryside Japan, so this year, I celebrated in traditional Japanese fashion: hatsumode and...