The smart little girl who comes to my classroom every Saturday morning, couldn't come today because she had a bad headache.
I hope she feels better soon.
With my morning lesson canceled, I had the perfect opportunity to get back to basics on the electric bass guitar.
I am all the way up to track 20 on a 65 track instructional CD that came with the textbook entitled; EASY BASS.
Yeah, that's right up my alley. ABC 123.
After about 90 minutes of practice, I had to change clothes and get ready to go the the Grand Hotel by 14:00 for the celebration of the 45th Anniversary of
Asahikawa Women's Junior College, 40th Anniversary of Asahikawa University etc.
It was a huge event, with the likes of who is who in Hokkaido, all in attendance.
Even the Mayor of Asahikawa, Mr. Nishikawa himself, found the time in his busy schedule, to show up and make a speech.
See the photo above/left for details.
After about one hour of speeches and awards presentations, everyone of the more than 220 people who came today, went into the room next door for food and drinks.
We were also treated to an excellent performance of some very complicated music by the 旭川大学高等学校吹奏楽部 Asahikawa University High School Brass Band.
They were really good!
They must practice almost every day, in order to pull off a perfect performance like the one they did today.
Another delightful treat for today, was to discover that the elderly gentleman seated to my left at the banquet table, and who teaches information processing on Tuesday mornings, is in fact distantly related to my wife's family!
To keep it short, he is the husband of the sister of the mother of the the husband of my wife's older sister.
Therefore we have the same two nephews, in common!
Did you follow that? OK, here it is again in reverse order.
My wife has two sisters. One older sister and one younger sister.
My wife's older sister, is married to a man.
That man's mother also has a sister.
That sister is married to the elderly gentleman who sat next to me today at the banquet table.
Yeah, I know. It's a long and winding road, but all of us are connected in some way.
Whether we know it or not.
I hope she feels better soon.
With my morning lesson canceled, I had the perfect opportunity to get back to basics on the electric bass guitar.
I am all the way up to track 20 on a 65 track instructional CD that came with the textbook entitled; EASY BASS.
Yeah, that's right up my alley. ABC 123.
After about 90 minutes of practice, I had to change clothes and get ready to go the the Grand Hotel by 14:00 for the celebration of the 45th Anniversary of
Asahikawa Women's Junior College, 40th Anniversary of Asahikawa University etc.
It was a huge event, with the likes of who is who in Hokkaido, all in attendance.
Even the Mayor of Asahikawa, Mr. Nishikawa himself, found the time in his busy schedule, to show up and make a speech.
See the photo above/left for details.
After about one hour of speeches and awards presentations, everyone of the more than 220 people who came today, went into the room next door for food and drinks.
We were also treated to an excellent performance of some very complicated music by the 旭川大学高等学校吹奏楽部 Asahikawa University High School Brass Band.
They were really good!
They must practice almost every day, in order to pull off a perfect performance like the one they did today.
Another delightful treat for today, was to discover that the elderly gentleman seated to my left at the banquet table, and who teaches information processing on Tuesday mornings, is in fact distantly related to my wife's family!
To keep it short, he is the husband of the sister of the mother of the the husband of my wife's older sister.
Therefore we have the same two nephews, in common!
Did you follow that? OK, here it is again in reverse order.
My wife has two sisters. One older sister and one younger sister.
My wife's older sister, is married to a man.
That man's mother also has a sister.
That sister is married to the elderly gentleman who sat next to me today at the banquet table.
Yeah, I know. It's a long and winding road, but all of us are connected in some way.
Whether we know it or not.
