Category Archives: Wednesday Posts

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WEDNESDAY’S WORD OF THE WEEK — SNOW CAKE

We just had more than 3 inches of snow in the DC metropolitan area. In some areas like West Virginia, it was as tall as 1 foot! When I got snowed in on Tuesday, I pretty much spent the evening watching Chopped on Food Network....
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WEDNESDAY’S WORD OF THE WEEK — DA PEN TI

You may think that you're starting to get a cold when you make the first sneeze. That may not be the case in Chinese culture though. Aside from the medical stand point, when you 打噴嚏 (sneeze) once, it's believed that someone is thinking of you or...
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WEDNESDAY’S WORD OF THE WEEK — Shabu Shabu

Wow this week might be the coldest week in DC! Tuesday's temperature was below 10 degrees and felt like -9 degrees! The line to get a hearty warm soup is longer than usual. A high volume of posts from my Facebook's newsfeed is about how...
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WEDNESDAY’S WORD OF THE WEEK — BONENKAI

Did you all have a good GLN semester? The Fall 2013 GLN Japanese Foreigner Class just celebrated a memorable semester at the Sakana Restaurant. The teacher introduced a fun word for this end of semester celebration event: Bonenkai (忘年会). It literally means "forget the year...
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WEDNESDAY’S WORD OF THE WEEK — ANIME AND MANGA

Are you thrilled to see your favorite super heros from books or animation come live on screen? There has been a series of movies based on Marvel and DC Comics/Animation such as recently released Thor, Wolverine, Batman and Spiderman. In Japan, they also make live-action...
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