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Look-My Favorite Family Member Has Come to Visit- Moving Lesson # 5
Kidding! Really, how many jokes are possible here? The potential butts, other than family members, of whom would likely take offense are endless so I decided to go with an easy target. Plus my family has had to … Continue reading
It’s Ground Hog Day- I Mean Moving Day
It’s moving day and a typhoon is baring down on Tokyo. Already the wind is blowing the rain sideways. I only know about the typhoon because of the email cascade from school- I can’t understand the news. Two ancient Japanese … Continue reading
Moving #4/Culture Lesson #3- School Choice and Face
School choice is one of the most stressful decisions of the move. When we learned of our potential move and made plans to visit Japan for our “look see” I immediately Googled schools. My choices were limited to English speaking, … Continue reading
Moving #3-Do you Take Your Cell Phone for Granted?
If you do, don’t. After a 5 day trip to Japan in June, I got a $550 dollar phone bill. That was after I turned off the roaming portion. Having learned my lesson, I called AT&T before we arrived and … Continue reading
Moving #2-How Do You Move?
My opinion only- you write a marketing plan/business plan/military strategy. All the components to moving are the same. 1) Analysis 2) Strategy 3) Plan 4) Tactics 5) Measure All good plans are dependent upon a comprehensive analysis of the terrain, … Continue reading
Moving #1-Truffles Fails Japanese Immigration Test
Original Post via Email July 2010: According to the Japanese authorities, our dear 4 year old guinea pig, Truffles, male, failed a critical immigration test. We of course know of this test and tried to pass Truffles off as a … Continue reading
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