| Monday, 27th February, "Girls Doll Festival" |
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Kate and Emily at last set up the Ohinasama- Girls Dolls Fest-. (HK) |
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| Friday, 24th February, "Farewell party" |
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Ms.kambara is leaving Morioka to Tokyo, because her present town planning office is closed. She did great job for Kokaido Art Show in last summer. Iwas so late I could join them just for one hour or so, because of the meetin on the same time. (HK) |
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| Wednesday, 22nd February, "Architects and Craftsmans" |
| High schhol friend, Satake invited me to give a talk at Architects and craftsman association in Sendai. That was fun. On the way back to my parent's house in Sendai, on the street there are millions of taxes are waiting for customers. Too many.(HK) |
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| Monday, 20th February, "Spring Has Come?" |
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Snow's melting. Spring is not so far...(HK) |
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| Sunday, 19th February, "Painting again" |
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ALL finished painting! (HK) |
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| Friday, 17th February, "Painting" |
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Painting wall now. (HK) |
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| Wednesday, 15th February, "Party or Ceremony?" |
| Fire department came to check new building. I bought two fire distinguishers the other day. Went to Morioka to attendd the Keikan Seminar. Then went to celebration party for Miura for winning best farmer award in Iwate prefecture. Went to Karaoke until 2 in the morning (HK) |
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| Monday, 13th February, "Valentine Cookies" |
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Emily is happily baking cookies for Valentine day. (HK) |
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| Friday, 10th February, "Snow Again" |
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Just over night we ad 70cm snow. Sean had ski school class in the snow course in mountain today. (HK) |
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12mm ply wood would make walls strong to hold any stone hunging on the wall.(HK) |
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| Thursday, 9th February, "Insulations" |
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Now we start insulating new Kate room with her own piece recycled from summer show st Kokaido Art Show. (HK) |
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Shelves are completed. Strong and stable. (HK) |
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| Wednesday, 8th February, "English Speach Contest" |
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Students from 4 Junior High Schools in Iwate town demonstrate the english ability in this contest. Emily was the final speaker today. (HK) |
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| Tuesday, 7th February, "Shelves" |
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Building with scafolding pipes a shelf for the new stusio.(HK) |
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| Sunday, 5th February, "Omote Sando Hills" |
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I joined up with Kate in Tokyo today for the meeting at Art Front Gallery about Seven Samurai project with Grizedale Arts this summer. Stayed with Jonny Walker tonight. Image is the just finished new building of Omotesando Hills by Tadao Ando. It looks like just a small shopping centre to me. |
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Another one by Ando is this Casa Almani. This is exciting. Very sculptural! (HK) |
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| Saturday, 4th February, "Star Wars Models" |
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Sean looks very happy, for completion of his favourite plastic models of Star Wars, which one of my high school friend gave! (HK) |
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| Friday, 3rd February, "Tokyo-Berlin,Berlin-Tokyo Exhibition" |
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Kate at the opening party of "Berlin-Tokyo, Tokyo-Berlin" at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi hills. (HK) |
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| Thursday, 2nd February, "Koyama" |
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koyama, a sculptor ling in Sweden came to visit us. He has been in Iwate, participated in Sculpture Symposium in 2002. Meeting with old friends. (HK) |
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