イギリスで妊娠・出産を経験した日本人は少なからずいるようで、実は私、その方たちが書いたブログにとても助けられました。...

Since we’re still on the language topic, let’s talk a bit about my experience learning Japanese. Before meeting Kokoro, my only interactions with the language were through anime and video games. I still vividly remember playing Virtua Fighter 2 as a child and hearing the characters’ Japanese lines. My...

たぶんかぞくのブログは普段、ダンダンが英語、私こころが日本語で書いていますが… 「これじゃあ英語で読む人にはダンダンの考えていること、日本語で読む人にはこころの考えていることしか発信できない！！」 ということで、不定期でインタビューシリーズを取り入れてみることにしました！...

Kokoro and I decided to do something a little different for this week’s post. Since we’re always writing about our own thoughts, we thought we might have the other person take the spotlight instead. And so, we ‘interviewed’ each other about our experience learning the other’s language. Of course,...

体調が悪い時は雑炊orうどんの二択で育った私が、海外に住み始めて困ったBEST3に入ること… それは、体調が悪い時の食事！！...

Let’s talk about sports. I love sports. Football (even the American kind), basketball, hockey, baseball, you name it. I love playing them and I love watching them. Growing up in Romania however, the only sport I really knew was football (not the American kind, and I refuse to call...

2020年4月18日(土) ついにイースター前日！ いろいろ特別なことがあるのだろうと思いきや！安息日ですらない普通の土曜日とのこと。笑...

There are so many memes and silly posts out there about getting along with your in-laws that I won’t even begin to get into it. I mentioned my mother-in-law worrying about my sleeping schedule in my first post, so I thought it might be a good segue to talk...

前回の記事に書いた通り、ダンダンにとってのイースターは4/19(日)。 4/10(金)～13(月)にイースターを祝うイギリスより1週間遅いため、残念ながらイギリスでは前後の平日は休みにならず普通の週末…...

It’s about three o’clock in the middle of the night. I just started writing this. Yes, seriously. And my wife hates that. I know what you’re going to say, ‘well obviously, DanDan, most wives would hate that’! Well, you probably have a point, and actually this might not have...