What a summer it has been. Hot. Humid. And lots of experiences. Apart from what I have being writing about during the summer, we have been to a firework festival, visited a waterfall where my son got to try his hand on fishing for the first time (fishing for fish but also fishing for noodles
Our son is once a week having soroban lessons. A few weeks back his abacus teacher told him that he should learn to recognize his own name written in kanji, Chinese characters. The teacher is every week putting name tags on the desks indicating where the kids should sit, and since they change places from
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,
There is something special about summer – the heat, the breeze from the ocean, from the mountains, the smells. Walking barefoot. Today it was 35 degrees outside, humid. You have to be careful about not getting heatstroke this time of the year, so we try to keep awareness of the need for hydration and the
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.
As I wrote about last week it has been raining a lot, and the rain has continued. I have bad memories from times of heavy rain. When I was living in Sweden I experienced a big flooding in the village where I was living and houses were all surrounded by water from the overflowing river.
We got a message from a friend who lives near a little river half an hour away. There are a lot of fireflies here now, do you want to come? Of course we wanted to! It was Sunday, a beautiful evening, and we made our way to see our friend just as the sun was
Although we have already entered September, with summer holidays over and kindergarten’s second trimester having started, autumn is still nowhere in sight. It has been hot hot and this weekend when it was time for this year’s summer festival in the nearby park, was no exception. My son has been looking forward to this festival
A long holiday is coming to an end. Rainy days, too hot days – summer is interesting in many ways here in Japan (though we are still waiting for this year’s first typhoon) and the time spent indoors has been quite extensive. So to make everyday life feel new we have tried to make something