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		<title>Who says?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It comes up more often than you’d think – what “you want to be”.  English teachers in Japan rarely plan to do it for life.  There’s something else we’d like to become but for now, for whatever reason, teaching English works just fine. When I say I want to be an interpreter the response has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Triumph</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A whole bunch of people thought that knitting something challenging for the duration of the Olympics would be fun.  I agreed and picked out a crazy project – a lace blanket over six feet across that uses 1700 yards of yarn.  After many late nights, 60+ hours of knitting, and a blocking session during the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://japanese-me.com/2010/03/03/triumph/</link>
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		<title>Even Here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following took place in a mix of Japanese and English. 5th grader:  Karla-sensei, the lead actress  in the Friday Night Movie looked just like you! Me:  Friday Night Movie? 5th grader:  Yeah, it was all about fashion and stuff. Me:  …The Devil Wears Prada? 5th grader:  That was it! Now people on both sides [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://japanese-me.com/2010/01/21/even-here/</link>
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		<title>But Surely?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I’m going to try and ease back into this posting thing.  I’ve been going through some old pictures and while they may not have a large overarching theme they’re still neat.  Later I want to write some more posts about learning Japanese… but let’s start slowly, slowly. First:  Odaiba, an island in Tokyo Bay, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://japanese-me.com/2010/01/19/but-surely/</link>
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		<title>Wool-y</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent yesterday finishing up some nearly done projects and taking pictures of my latest knitting.  Yea knitting! Armwarmers!  [project rav link] These are called Toast by Leslie Friend [pattern rav link] and are nothing but a stockinette tube.  The original instructions don’t have any shaping but I started a little smaller at the wrists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://japanese-me.com/2009/12/06/wool-y/</link>
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		<title>Poetic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a neighborhood in Kawasaki called Mizonokuchi.  At first I thought it was Mi*zu*nokuchi, or literally “mouth of the water”… maybe where a creek emptied into a river, or a river into the ocean.  Romantic.  Poetic.  Then I looked up the kanji: 溝ノ口 It turns out mizo actually means “ditch”.  Mouth of the ditch. Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://japanese-me.com/2009/11/28/poetic/</link>
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		<title>Milestone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first started studying Japanese I watched a lot of anime. I got hooked on the likes of Cowboy Bebop, Inuyasha, Fruits Basket, and Escaflowne, all with English subs. Some fansub groups write transliterations of song lyrics so you can sing along even if you can’t read Japanese.  It can be hard to follow, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://japanese-me.com/2009/11/11/milestone/</link>
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		<title>Lists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haven’t felt much like blogging lately.  I’ve been on a real study kick, trying to squeeze a bunch of new kanji and vocab into my brain.  I’ve taken to tackling lists of things I think I should know – government ministries, planets, major organs.  I’m discovering some neat things while I’m at it.  Example: I’ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://japanese-me.com/2009/10/26/lists/</link>
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		<title>Clearest Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most beautiful sky is after a typhoon barrels through.  All of the smog is blown away and all that’s left is the sunset and Mt. Fuji.  Wow.]]></description>
		<link>http://japanese-me.com/2009/10/18/clearest-day/</link>
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		<title>Lunch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m getting a little better at the bento thing.  Here’s what I’ve been taking to school recently: Roughly clockwise from left: salmon, rice, broccoli, two kinds of pickles, persimmon, garnished with a lettuce leaf. One day when I opened this some of the sixth graders actually clapped.  But others soon chimed in – the bento [...]]]></description>
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