Macro Monday 7…

March 3 2008, Haruka`s house near Kichijoji, Olympus u830.

Another oldie but I must admit I love this photo. It would of been one of my last private lessons with Haruka, a student I saw on Monday`s for almost 18 months. The previous owner of my old school had recommended me to Haruka`s mum who she worked with and i became Haruka`s private English teacher. I would ride there after work (or walk once we moved to Nakano) each Monday and spend an hour to two hours with her.

On this day Haruka`s mother brought out a cake for Hinamatsuri also known as  girl`s day & doll`s festival which is held on March 3 every year. Each week after our lessons I would sit with Haruka & her mother (and sometimes her older sister Miki) and talk with them while eating a sweet and enjoying freshly brewed coffee or tea. With Haruka`s mother I always spoke Japanese and it was good for me to have the opportunity to speak with someone older as I had to be a bit more careful about the way I spoke and chuck in some “masu/desu” form every now and then.

Haruka`s mother can be credited with teaching me to make miso soup and kinpira gobo!!!

Once I moved to Nakano her mother would usually drive me back to Kichijoji station so that I could catch the train home. I miss Haruka and I have been a very bad English penpal to her- I must write to her soon! I am sure I will visit her again once I return to Japan even though I will live too far away to be her English teacher again.

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