Monthly Archives: May 2013

We are pleased to announce the first of our planned seasonal haiku contests. Our goal is to promote appreciation of the haiku craft as well as to encourage the development of the English haiku. Our first step is to choose … Continue reading →

Today’s yojijukugo is aimaimoko. It means simply “vague and dim”, and can be broken down into two words that can be used seperately, aimai (vague) and moko (dim). In both languages, vague is used more to describe concepts, while dim … Continue reading →

Today’s yojijukugo is gaden’insui. It means “pulling water into one’s own rice field. Because water is something that doesn’t really belong to anyone, we should share it equally. A rice farmer who tries to make more water flow into his … Continue reading →

Finally Found Good Eating Yesterday my mother and I went to Shirokiya 3rd floor to eat. There are all kinds of variety of foods to eat there、from Sea Food Boulabaise to Sushi, okonomiyaki, Korean food, Curry, Tempura, Udon, Soba, Chinese … Continue reading →

I must apologize. I wrote in my last blog about the Patriot’s. I failed to mention that the Patriot’s are a professional football team that plays out of New England. Football is my favorite sport and the Patriot’s use to … Continue reading →

Today, I had my first lesson with Michiko. We studied, using Hiragana and Katakana, where I was born and where I lived beforre I came to Hawaii. I was born in North Carolina and spent a good amount of my … Continue reading →

This weekend the county hosted a bar-b-que festival at the fairgrounds. The festivities started early Saturday morning and were expected to go through Sunday evening. We went on Saturday. I had something to do for work Saturday morning. Once I … Continue reading →