| Thursday, 30th March, "Takuboku" |
| Hungover. with Sean came back to snow white Ukishima. (HK) |
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| Wednesday, 29th March, "Wallece and Gurmit" |
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I drove down to Sendai to join up with Sean at my parent's house. Sean and his causin, Naoya are dinishing their five days swimming classes today. |
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I took them to watch "Wallece and Gurmit" at Sendai Forum. Great fun! Then we all stayed at Naoya's, Fam. Yonezawa's new house. all my sisters and niese and nephews came and am drinking with Takashi, Miwa's husband. (HK) |
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| Thursday, 25th March, "Takuboku" |
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Alone in Ukishima for a while. Enjoying single life. Working on Poet Monument. (HK) |
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| Thursday, 23rd March, "NPO" |
| Iwate Town International Association committee meeting. I prepared alot of paper today of new constitutions for charitable status. I have done all photocopies at Dr. Sakai's hospital. He gave me a supper. (HK) |
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| Monday, 20th March, "Take Off" |
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This is the airplane kate and Emily flow from Sendai to Tokyo. She told me later it was very bumpy. |
| Emily and Kate started off to Edinburgh for spring holliday. Sean and I went to the Sendai Airport together and saw them off. Sean stayed on at my parent's house until swimming class. So, I came back to Ukishima alone.(HK) |
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| Sunday, 19th March, "Shopping" |
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Came down to Sendai and we all went to Yodobashi Camera shop first to find kate new diital camera. I was terrified when she suggested to ttake my A1 to Scotland! But after all my reseach on internet, we decided to buy panasonic FX01 with 28mm wide black. Looks good and works well. (HK) |
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| Tuesday, 14th March, "Pinewood" |
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Mr.Pinewood syddenly came to visit with his all family tonight. (HK) |
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| Sunday, 12th March, "Narnia" |
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Emily's most favourite? book Narnia, the movie we went to watch today in Morioka. Amazing visuall effect, but i found story was a bit week....(HK) |
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| Saturday, 11th March, "Keikan Seminer" |
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We have prepared the series of seminer on the landscpe design in Iwate. today is the 4th one, and I was one of the speakers today.(HK) |
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| Thursday, 9th March, "Poet Monument" |
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Cut out the rough shape of the stone.(HK) |
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An evening party of Teachers and parents from the first year of Ikkatai Junior High School held at the local community centre. Not many people turned out, but very friendly evening. (HK) |
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| Wednesday, 8th March, "Poet Monument" |
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Start working on the sculpture monument to Takuboku, the poet for Morioka daiishi High School. (HK) |
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| Monday, 6th March, "Caterpillar" |
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Most of the snow melted around us. I guess it is time now for spring cleaning and maintenance. Kate's jaint JCB has problemed caterpillar last winter and we fixed once. Still not completed. So, guy came from Sumitomo Industrial Maschine company and all welded and got new bolts for her sour feet. (HK) |
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| Sunday, 5th March, "Artists Meeting" |
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David came yesterday. We went to Onsen and had a great card games! We are visiting Iwate prefecture museum today, meeting all friends again. Yasui and Yoshida took us around to see galleries and collections in the storige. Momose and Hondas are showing their pictures and ishikawa 's her new installation in the exhibition on just now. Okada just back from Sweden. (HK) |
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| Saturday, 4th March, "New Printer" |
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One of our canon printer keep refusing to print, saying we ought to change the ink disposal tank. After I got in touch with canon repair and sent off the printer to Sendai to get maintenanced, We recieved a rand new model! They said our printer parts are already run out of stock! Well whay not.(HK) |
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| Thursday, 2nd March, "Spring Snow" |
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Mukai's came and baking cookies. (HK) |
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Snowed again last night. But this should not be lasting long. I saw swans flying to north. (HK) |
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