Back in September I wrote a reminiscence on my first experience of okonomiyaki in which I rather cheekily referred to one of my fellow JETS of that time as a “disenchanted American”. Well, I’m guessing she googled her own name because she found it and wrote:
Wasn’t it nice of the friendly ‘Americans’ to invite you out for pizza back in the day!
Long live okonomiyaki with mayonnaise and cuttle fish!
-from the “disenchanted… artistic type” who did not fancy Thad, thank you very much…
; )
Really? Not even a little bit? Well, yes it was nice of them to take me out. And I should be grateful. I merely wrote it that way for comedic effect (for what it’s worth) but I stand abashed before the tremendous power of the intraweb. Truth will out, eh? And the truth is Carrie Van Horn was a nice neighbor and a very good egg indeed back in the day. I should have written that to begin with though, shouldn’t I?
I recently hit on an idea for a J-Pop lesson which simply put would involve the students listening to stuff they like and then writing their opinion using pre-taught vocabulary. So simple it’s genius. Only I have to find the songs they request first… Aya in 3:4 was quite adamant about this one. And it took a long time but… I finally found it! Enjoy!
Hi Mike-
I just read your new comment. It’s pretty funny, thanks for calling me a ‘good egg’. : )
And yes, I did google my name and find your blog, which was kind of nice in fact to read about what you’re up to!
Last weekend I had a beer with Kurt Wong in Las Vegas and we reminisced about those Koriyama days. He’s doing well- as I hope all of us are.
Cheers-
Carrie