Random Acts

Due to the coming typhoon, which is the biggest in recent years, our school cancelled classes early! We came to school today just to find out that classes would let out after 1st period. Well, we don't have 1st period so we had no classes today!! Yippy! Unfortunately, if the typhoon is bad enough it will knock all the apples off the trees and the farmers will lose a lot of money!

Also, one of our favorite shopping centers will be closing this weekend! The department store is called Joppal and is the popular hang out for high school students. It has a lot of cheaper fashion shops and a really nice dollar store. We are frequenters to this department store and will be quite sad to it see it go. Many a good memory has been had within the walls of Joppal. What will Hirosaki be without trusty Joppal. Some may say a safer city, but NO! Where will the kids hang out? They will just turn to the streets. For us, it means long, long, long treks through the winter waist deep snow for our supplies. Or we'll just broke spending our money at more expensive (and reliable) stores.

Here is a picture of our stomping grounds: Joppal. Oh! You shall be missed.

All is well though, we are thankful to have learned to cook well enough to make pulled pork!! Yes, thanks to our slow cooker we had a delightful meal! There is a lot to be thankful for!