traveling the road less taken. Picture Post : comments.
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I like the old Ramen shop actually! It has more of traditional Japanese Ramen house feel and look to it.
Your house looks great! I wish I was in Japan right now. How does it look inside? ^_^
I really like your classroom too. It looks very comfortable. Why is it called Peaks?
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the house is pretty comfortable, even though we don't have any central hear (or a/c in the summer). I'm going to write a post about the house soon, so I'll describe it then. basically it's three floors, and we stay on the top floor most of the time. we have lots of space. the classroom is on the second floor, and there's another room that's just storage at this point. my in-laws sleep on one half of the second floor in tatami rooms.
the classroom is very comfy - I wish I could get students, but we need to advertise, and Masahiko thinks I should try to find a job outside the house first. I rely on him to advertise - so it's kind of frustrating. if he gets a job, maybe he'll change his mind, but he's worried about money now. It's called Peaks because we liked the design of this pub in Port Angeles called Peaks Pub, and if you think about it, Peaks sounds like Speak. which is fitting for an English conversation school:)
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I wonder about that - not having AC or heating in a country where the summer is humid and hot and the winter is cold. It does save a lot of energy though, which is important for the current state of our planet.
Tatami rooms are so cool! I love things with a long history and cultural ties. I hear Japanese houses in the cities tend not to have tatami rooms anymore. Newly built houses sometimes may have one traditional room for welcoming guests. It'd be a shame to see them disappear.
Keep up the good work, Laura. You just got to Japan. Once word gets around, I'm sure you'll get students. Thanks for explaining the origin of Peaks. Let's all speak at Peaks!
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I also love the tatami, and it's so easy to take care of. It is sad to think of houses and apartments not having tatami anymore - that's why I love old Japanese houses and I've loved staying in traditional Ryokans (like they have in Kyoto) - that's real Japan!
Let's All Speak at Peaks! that's a good slogan.
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With global warming and being alarmed by watching Avatar, I stopped using the heater in my apartment. That might not mean much to people elsewhere though since the temperature never dips below the 40's in San Diego. All the more reason not to have AC and heating systems at all here. =)
I read somewhere that the Ryokan are very expensive to maintain nowadays. And increasingly people are abandoning them for simple urban apartments. There is an active and ongoing effort to save them in Kyoto.
Glad you like the slogan! When your school gets huge, I'll make a fortune by charging 1cent per student for saying that slogan! ^_^
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I didn't realize Avatar had a global warming message. was it a good movie? I don't know a thing about it. well when I lived in Seattle, there were no air conditioners, but it never really got that hot. but we did have central heat. and in apartments you can't really control the heat much, at least I couldn't in Chicago. but in Chicago we needed as much heat as possible or we'd die!
that's sad about Ryokan being more expensive to maintain - that means they will be more expensive to stay at. but hopefully they won't all go away.
oh, I hope the school gets huge. but there's still a chance we might move to another part of Japan, so I don't know what will happen with the school. we still haven't got any interested students yet. we need more time, I guess.
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Avatar is a great movie. I watched it twice, in 2d and 3d and loved every minute of it.
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