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Posted on March 23, 2011 1 Comment
As I study more Japanese, I am trying to read old Japanese folk tales for children. Although English stories such as Peter Rabbit are popular here, so are several famous Japanese stories that I had never heard of prior to coming to Japan. The first story I picked up was 鶴の恩返し (tsuru no ongaeshi), which […]
Posted on March 16, 2011 3 Comments
I am writing this from my school desk on the second floor of Hayatsuki Junior High School in Namerikawa. Our graduation ceremony for the san-nenseis (third-year students) just finished. To my left, outside the windows, I see thousands of grey clouds, covering the sky in my seaside town like an oversized cotton blanket. Behind the clouds, the […]
Posted on March 14, 2011 2 Comments
Dear readers, My town, Namerikawa, was thankfully not affected by Friday’s devastating earthquake. We are a coastal town but on the west side of Japan, off the Sea of Japan. I felt the earthquake while at school, but my co-workers and I did not know the magnitude of it until turning on the TV and […]
Posted on March 10, 2011 Leave a Comment
Before I moved to Japan, this blog was called “Stories from the Lake.” The name referred to Lake Michigan and stories involving the great city of Chicago. I certainly miss staring out into the wonders of Lake Michigan, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. I used to spend hours in the summer […]
Posted on March 7, 2011 2 Comments
When I turned on the TV this morning while getting dressed for work, one of the first things I saw was a beautiful picture of an older Japanese woman smiling in a lush green garden. She looked at peace with her life but also ready to do so much more. I couldn’t understand the Japanese […]
Sheila Burt 