The feeling of being at primary school was increased no end this week: we've so far spent one class making New Year cards for our teachers (using stamps and everything...) and another playing Japanese board games (very competitively of course). The end of term party tomorrow has a typically Japanese variety show element, so we're singing a song in Japanese to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas. In costume of course (I have a very fetching Hello Kitty Santa suit).
Last night we were at the Foundation's Office for their Christmas party, which was strangely like some kind of extended-family event. One of the Trustees had brought back a Christmas pudding, a Christmas cake and a panettone from his visit to London last month for the Trustees' meeting. Apparently this was a result of some comment I'd made the last time we saw him, about Real English Christmas Cake. The pudding was very tasty, and so was our mulled wine effort. Ingredients: all of the red wine we had, quite a lot of orange juice, and some cinnamon and cloves, all heated on a gas stove in a borrowed kettle. The building also houses the second offices of a lot of Japanese politicians but fortunately we managed to persuade security to let us continue when they found us in the kitchen, although they did report 'three non-Japanese-looking individuals'...
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