遠くに住む家族や友人のための個人的な日記です。 ごゆっくり... For far away friends and family.

2010年4月24日土曜日

陶芸

春になり、庭に変な生き物が生えてきました。というわけではなく、
陶芸で変な人形つくってみました...という報告。色が思ったより出なかったので今回の窯出しはがっかりだった。「鮮やかに色でまっせ」と、評判のアメリカ製の専用絵の具をわざわざ買ったのに...。最近大きいサイズの絵と闘っているためそちらにかまけて陶芸は休みがち。続けることに意義がある!(自分叱咤)喝!(おおげさ)
Strange creatures have appeared in our garden this spring. Or, maybe it's just Tomo's latest pottery creation. She went to all the trouble of buying highly rated American pottery paint but, as you can see, the colors turned out muted and muddy.
However, recently Tomo's been ditching her pottery classes and concentrating on her oil painting. She's got a huge canvas in her room that she wont let me look at.
She goes in and out like she's in a battle...
(what's she doing in there... ?)

サム新聞ニュースに!

サムが市の広報にのりました。「鹿嶋市は教育にこんなに力いれてますよ〜」という記事みたい。でも、たしか一年前もまったく同じ写真(そのときはモノクロだった)が広報に掲載されたような...。鹿嶋市は広報の写真には力入れてないみたいだ。ま、どうでもいいけど。先日は茨城NHKのニュースにも出ちゃったし(内容はノーコメント)よかったね。
I got my picture in the news paper. Unfortunately, the article itself has little to do with me. "Look at us, we're pouring lots of money into education (We're even paying this gaijin's salary)," seems to be the thrust of the article. I actually think they had a similar article last year with the exact same photo of me, but I can't really remember.
I was also interviewed (in Japanese) by a local TV news crew and appeared on the local news here recently but for something completely different. (I'll update my other blog with that news within the next few weeks).

2010年4月15日木曜日

やっと春? Is spring here?


I thought spring was here a month ago when we had one warm day... It's still cold, but the cherry blossoms bloomed last weekend. Does this make it official?
Tomo and I celebrated by going to a local park and eating doughnuts Sunday morning... (romantic... ^_^;)

Mmm... Doughnuts...

(update: the day after I posted this it snowed... 泣)