Hey y’all! 

I love wandering around nature in  Japan, but lately it’s been too cold for me to be out for too long. Therefore, once I saw a little bit of sunshine I jumped on the opportunity to get out of my house. These are a few shots from my last outing! It was still super cold though…. 

Hello everyone! Hope you’ve enjoyed the cold weather cause it seems to be leaving! I’ve started to leave my large winter coat at home these days, which is funny to think about. Wasn’t it just snowing a few weeks ago!? I’m from Texas and we do have weird weather some times but I feel like this is very strange.

Today, I’ll be thinking about how just a few weeks ago, Ogaki looked like this! But hope you are all getting ready for spring! Stay safe and healthy!

情報を発信したい人、情報を受け取りたい人、友達とつながりを持ちたい人など、SNSにはいろいろな使い方があると思います。そこで得られる情報が真実かどうか、ファクトチェックするスキルを身に付ける大切さを生徒と話し合うこともあります。

個人的にはSNSを使わないのですが、友人がよく動画や写真（主に食べ物関係や動物関係）を送ってくれます。そのなかには「これって本当に？？CGじゃないの？？」と思ってしまうほどよくできたものもあります。最近見たものの一つが、教会で歌われているゴスペル音楽に合わせて踊っているように見えるフクロウの動画です。とてもかわいいので、興味のある方はぜひ見てみてください。

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Ice cream is delicious, I think we can all agree. Gelato is a lot like ice cream, and it’s also very delicious. If I had to choose between the two, though, I think I’d say that gelato is my favorite, although that might just be because I so rarely get to eat it. I certainly didn’t expect an opportunity to arise while visiting a random café in Japan, yet somehow here we are now!

My friends and I happened by this cute little café in Omi-Hachiman awhile back. My attention had been caught by the yuzu tree and the chalkboard menu out front advertising yuzu chiffon. If you can’t tell, I have a profound weakness for all things yuzu. When we went into the café, however, my attention was then captured by the gelato case. There were quite a few flavors, many of them new to me in gelato form. Sadly, there wasn’t any yuzu gelato, but there was matcha! I love matcha, but I’d never had it in gelato form before, so I was very excited.

And I wasn’t disappointed when the waitress brought it to our table, either. It was fantastic. Cold, smooth, matcha-y, and sitting on a bed of frosted flakes, of all things. Like a deconstructed ice cream cone. It was perfection. I loved every bite. Matcha + gelato isn’t exactly the most conventional combination, but I can confidently say that it’s a winning one.