Japan!

Japan rocks. it is fascinating. The way people dress, what they eat, their seeming obsession with germs and cleanliness, the tv shows, the cartoons everywhere, the hairstyles, the apparent whirlpool of anxiety that bubbles beaneath the smiling facade of the average Japanese... we are eating it all up.

Carlos is in school and is funnier than ever. He comes home with new tricks and funny things to say every day. His first week he came home, walked in the door, sat down and said "OK!", got up and sat down in a different spot in the apartment and said "OK!" and did that two more times in varying locations. I guess they do that before they have a snack at school... so he was letting us know he was ready for a snack or an activity or something!

The school is so sweet and bright and clean. You have to take off your shoes even to walk down the outside entryway... no dirt anywhere.

We have seen many beautiful and strange things since we got here. I am hoping to share some of those things in this blog. It will be simple with some photos and stories, maybe a video or two... but not much else. I hope you like reading it between refreshing your cnn.com or perezhilton.com pages. I am calling it the Deaf Anthropologist, if you did not already figure it out, because I have no idea what anyone is saying, so my concluusions about what is happening culturally are about as accurate as those would be from a deaf anthropologist... not so accurate.

Big Kiss to everyone.

Jenny