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Snowboard First Time Experience
We went to Sendai, it snowed quite heavily on the 28th, Sunday. The next day, we went for snowboard with my colleague, who is quite an expert in snowboarding. He taught my two girls how to snowboard, and me of course. It was great, I like snowboard more than ski. I should have tried it out long time before.
The reason why I asked my colleague to go together was, I wanted him to teach my kids how to play snowboard. Secondly, I think it would be much easier for them to learn when they are still small. Found out that Karin learned fast, and gave up fast as well. Whereas Erin wasn’t that adventurous to try. There, we were talking about characterism; how the first kid and the second one differ.
Talk from experience, as I myself don’t have any siblings that I can talk about it directly, my brother is 19 years older than me, my youngest sister is 6 years older than me. It’s my niece who is 3 years younger than me that I grew up together with. I am doing my observation with my kids. I am sure they learn along the way. Me as well.
Heading to Snow Country
From Omiya, we are heading north to Sendai, my wife’s hometown. It takes about one and a half hours non-stop Hayate Tsubasa shinkasen, the fastest, to get there. Half way one sees snow white scene already. Looks like going to be cold (can’t be hot I know!).
Let’s enjoy ski then!!!
Summer Vacations
I took a week off for summer vacations and went to Sendai, my wife’s hometown, with my family.
My last trip to Sendai was 2 years ago, when my boy was born. It’s really been a while. Things of course had changed a lot; it looked more development had taken place around Sendai station, more houses had been built after then in my in-laws neighbourhood, restaurants and megamalls were taking all chances to attract the young ones to spend their money, like anywhere else in the world. It’s lively overall.
But, though only for 5 days I was there, I recalled something I thought about before and it double confirmed my doubt; I cannot ever live there. It’s kind of funny to say so since I have never really lived there for long to know. Previously I did spend about a month there, from Malaysia, I thought I liked it then. As the say goes, being a guest and being the neighbour are two different things.
This trip, I confirmed that I can never feel I belong there. That’s for sure. But, what kind of place that can make me feel “at home” I wonder. To be honest, I have been looking for such a place.