Happy New Year

As I am spending the time with my family watching TV and talking about nonsense, I’d like to take some time thinking back this year.  Since Laura and I started the Japanese cultural group in 2011, we had steady growth in our group members. The year 2012 has been very active year for the group, and we accomplished many activities.  In addition to monthly Japanese speaking table, we had following cultural events in 2012:

Feb 3 – setsubun / bean throwing 
May 6 – children’s day / koinobori
July 20 – tasting at Sushi Pirate
Aug 25 – obon
Nov 4 – bunka no hi / culture day
Dec 2 – nabe / hot pot dinner
Dec 31 (planed) – toshikoshi / new year’s eve 

We would not be able to have such great turn out without you all.

I like to thank you to everyone, and additional thank you to people who hosted the events or brought great foods to share.  I appreciate if you can continue supporting the group and help us host events, cook cultural foods, and bring ideas on what we can do to make the events more fun and meaningful.  

Happy New Year to you all

ゆく年くる年

Christmas and New Year is around the corner.  It's getting cold and we had some snow just in time to prep for the white Christmas.  Everyone, please have great holidays and eat lots of warm foods.  The Japanese Nabe party was awesome.  We should do it again.  I'll be spending the お正月(oshougatsu) in Japan.  I hope you have some great time getting together with your family as well.  See you next year!

The picture from the Nabe Party.

December Japanese Speaking Table

Thanks to Shuei for hosting a fabulous Nabe Party last night.  We had three kinds of nabe, two kinds of oden, and snacks galore including sushi, squid, onigiri, and more.  Everyone had a good time tasting new and familiar foods and drinks.

The next Japanese Speaking Table will be moved to Sunday in order to accommodate a few more interested participants.

Sunday, December 9
3pm
Root Note Cafe

All levels are welcome to come and practice speaking Japanese.