May 29th, 2007

I am trying to post to my blog; however, a new development has occurred since the last time I logged on. I go to the log in page and it is in Japanese. I log in to my manager page and I blindly click until I find the right link to post. I only hope I am doing this correctly. There is no link to turn all the text to English. I have blogged from my home computer several times without this situation. Now I really need to learn how to read Japanese.

Josh, Ronan and I went to a restaurant in Yokohama on Sunday that did not offer an English menu. This is not the first time this has happened, but it still takes me back just a little. To quote my husband, "we are functionally illiterate living in Japan." This of course can be rectified by one or both of us learning how to read Hiragana and Katakana and hope to recognize a Kanji symbol or two along the way. It is a hard language to learn. Even Japanese nationals whom I have befriended say it was hard for them to learn. I must devote time to this skill if I hope to be able to read on the level of a first grader by the end of our time here.

We are looking forward to our first visitor this week. Josh's cousin from Montana will be here one night before he flies back to the U.S.. And Rebecca and Peter (Josh's sister and her husband) are headed our way this summer. Lot's of things planned for their trip here, but the most important (in Ronan's almost 3 year-old opinion) is going to Fuji-Q to visit ThomasLand. Ronan has been asking to go to Thomasland since he learned of it's existance from another child at his daycare center. Josh, Rebecca and Peter also will most likely climb Mt. Fuji. Since Ronan is not of hiking age, he and I will pass the time elsewhere while they are on the mountain.

Well, I will sign off now and see if this information posts and if so, does it post in English.

Love to all our family and Friends!--Kristin