my day off after such a long time

My day off was nothing special...
I had a massage therapy for my feet after having yummy spaghetti at restaurant with my mom.
Massage place is pretty far from my house. It takes 15 min by bicycle. Freaking cold and big wind out there... Here had a snow for the second time. I do like to see snow, but don't like cold temperature!  I hope all the street won't have no snow tomorrow.

Blogging after such a long time!!

I don't know how much time passed since coming back to Japan and I didn't even sign in my own blog for a while...
Lately, I've really felt that I keep forgetting English day by day and my small amount of confidence for English has melted away from me by not practicing... I gotta study hard not to forget English!!
As a result of thinking I reached the good way to do this. That's this blog!!  It's a great way for me to study English.


I was woke up by my dog, Guess in this morning. I felt chilly because he was snuggling  up in bed right after taking my blanket!!

For 2 hours after getting up I was still half-asleep, but I did lots of thing in 2 hours such as making up, having breakfast, feeding my dog...
At my hometown's public library I studied a few of vocabulary for 3 hours straight. It was really fresh time to use  my brain!! After that, I went to the supermarket to buy some commodities, and went to the sushi restaurant where I work in order to take out some sushi for my mom's birthday. These are everything how I spent my day off.

Long time no blog again...
I was quite busy studying hard for final exam, but it's finally over !!
I'm really relieved now. I have much free time and don't have to go to school from today. However,  my school life in the u.s. is done unfortunately. I'm going to go back to Japan after summer vacation is over. Of course, I will try to come back to the u.s. when financial situation is ready enough, but I'm not going to go back and talk about memories of my America's life on blog today. I'll stay in America until the beginning of October.

The best birthday party ever☆

I turned 21 years old on April. 17th. David hosted a party for my birthday and invited more than 45 people on that day.

 Everything in the picture is the birthday presents from friends of mine. I had never gotten such a lot of presents whole my life!! Thank you very much, all my dear friends.

Today, as a conversation class homework I'm going to write about how different to celebrate birthday.   Lots of people from different countries are in my party such as American, Korean, Japanese, Mongolian and so on.  They were separately gathering with the same country people, but some were not.

(American style)  They became high tension by alcohol and called my name over and over again to let me drink something strong alcohol for a shot. It was like this "Hey, come on birthday girl!!"
Moreover, we hugged each other so many times at the same time.

(Asian style)   They calmly celebrate a birthday like saying "happy birthday someone."

Americans express their emotion with movement of body to directly tell a feelings. On the other hand Asians keep a little distance to tell a feelings. I could exactly see how express a emotion.

Happy 1st year anniversary

A cupcakes for our 1st anniversary.

How fast a time goes by. I can't still believe that a year already passed since we started dating!!
I still feel like we've just started going out couple months ago haha. when I close my eyes, I feel that my memories I made with David are considerable amount, so I gotta take good care of all memories not to forget!! We really hope we can keep constant in love from now on, too.

Well, we had a little special dinner than usual. As you can see the 5 cupcakes from the picture, David and I bought them separately at the same day. While I'm waiting for David till he comes back home, I bought the two flower cupcakes and cooked some special dinner for this day. On the other hand he bought the chocolate cupcakes while I was preparing for dinner.
It was kinda funny. We were happy with this happening.  

How long didn't I update my blog!? Being lazy a little.
The winter vacation over and having started school from the end of March, a new school life has been a hectic than last quarter, fall quarter, and I'm getting used to the busy life little by little.

To: Taka
                Thank you for following my blog. I wanted to stop by your blog to say "thank you", but i seems like you don't have one. I hope you'll enjoy with my blog.

Well, this spring quarter, I'm taking a American culture conversation class which I learn about American culture and how to communicate with people. On Friday of each week as a assignment   I have to write a journal related to America's culture and my own culture and know a culture difference.
Today, I'll do it on my own blog! Let's get started!!


Hello, all!
Some of you may already know my name, but let me introduce myself.  I'm Anna (full name is Anamu Sasaki). I'm from Japan and will have been in Tacoma for a year and half by next month.

Today's my journal topic is "Don't Put Lots of Sugar into Coffee."

I like to spend my time drinking coffee in a coffee shop. Especially, Starbucks.
By the way, have you ever done people-watching in somewhere's coffee shop or fast food restaurant like the MacDonald? 
whenever I became bored or sleepy, i just want to do it for some reason.
Bunch of people make their own favorite coffee by themselves after purchase of coffee like putting a extra sugar into coffee. The sweetened coffee is sweet enough already, so I'm wondering why so many people want to make a sweeter coffee even a children...
How many of you think the same way as me?

Long time no update...  I was quite busy with preparations such as packing my stuffs, buying a souvenirs, and so on.  Then I'm now on vacation in Korea with my bf !!

Today, let me post a pictures of airplane's dishes.

 

This is my choice "Beef with Thai Coconuts sauce."

 

It's my bf David's choice"Chicken with ×××sauce." 

I don't remember the name of sauce...

Both of main dishes were wired taste in fact, but shrimp salad was tasty.

Here is my breakfast.

 

David and I  both ordered the same dishes this time by chance.

It's a Shrimp Fried Rice with young corn.

Actually, It was the best taste ever as a American dish!!

Until here, these dishes are from the u.s. to Japan.

Next one!!  It's a lunch,  Maki Sushi.

 

I took this picture badly, sorry.

This airplane dish is from Japan to Korea. It was a really really really tasty!!

If you, viewers, have a chance to take a airplane from Japan to Asia, you gotta eat this seriously!!

Well, updating of my blog will perhaps be a little later. I'll post lots of pics I saw and went though things.