Since spring our son has been practicing for this year’s piano recital held yesterday at a concert hall in Fukuoka. Three piano teachers had joined together to present a three-act recital featuring performances by all of their students, each playing music of their choice. In the middle act, the teachers themselves treated the audience to […]
One summer project I had been planning for my son and me this year was to create movies together. Since my son loves LEGO and Star Wars, I thought they would make an excellent theme for trying our hands on some stop motion movies. We started out easy, I downloaded a stop-motion app to the
I had been a little bit wary about long summer days too hot to be outside. Are my son and I going to drive each other up the walls when our normal active life is put on hold and we spend a lot of time together indoors at home? But as it has turned out,
I start where I finished the latest post – the best thing about Fukuoka in the summer is family evenings on the beach. It has been a very hot July and beginning of August, the temperature and humidity during the day sometimes feeling unbearable, but come late afternoon and the world shows a very different
Summer holidays – many of the most fond memories I have from my childhood are from warm summer days meeting people I loved doing things I enjoyed in places I came to adore. And now, I am so fortunate as to be able to see my son making precious memories for himself. Like Friday morning,
The mountain Raizan and the Sennyoji temple lying on the mountainside – I feel strangely drawn to this place, especially so when it is raining. There is a calm, a stillness that is accentuated in the rain, and the colors, the sounds, the smells feel like they come from a magical place beyond this world.
We have been closely following the successes and disappointments of our two home teems during this summer’s soccer World Cup. As it happened, Sweden and Japan were drafted to the same group and when they played their game last Friday, it was to determine which team would get the second place in the group and
We have come to the next chapter in our Star Wars themed household – building a space ship. As it happened, we got a delivery in a big big cardboard box, so big that we felt that it would have been a great shame and waste not to play with it before folding it up
We have been living in Fukuoka for five years now, and for my part it is difficult to believe how quick it has been. Our son turned six last Friday, and thinking back, looking at old photos, it truly feels like only yesterday we came here just in time for his first birthday. Now he
The other afternoon, after snack time, my son suddenly turned to me and said that he would make a surprise. You can be in the kitchen dad, but don’t look, he said. Promise that you don’t look. So while I was preparing dinner I could see him in the corner of my eye working intensely
Being the only person my son hears speaking Swedish every day, of course it comes upon me to be the Swedish “teacher-in-charge” in his life. I have taken the task to my heart and every day I continue trying to make us work on different aspects of the Swedish language, but in a way that
It has become a yearly spring time tradition since moving to Fukuoka – forest adventure with our son’s cousins. But this year was different since it was the first time mummy could join. There is a company called Forest Adventure that has locations all over Japan where nature loving people can experience the thrill of balancing