what are your plans for the holidays?
 

will you be going home?


will you be in Japan for the New Year?


What are you looking forward to?


ME-- I'll be here as usual-- although seeing family on Christmas day?

I'll be staying here in Japan, probably visiting my gf's parents' house on new years day to eat osechi and ozoni etc, maybe watch the highlights of that crazy marathon and play the lamest board game in history with her grandparents ><

On new years eve maybe hitting Kyoto, Kawaramachi, that place is always good for a new years eve party!

I'm staying here in Japan. I plan on spending a bit of my summer back in the States so I don't really feel the need to go home now as I've only been living here for like 4 months.
I feel like I'm going to have a really quiet Christmas, but New Years should be more hopping as I'm just going to find a popular bar and party there.

I will be headed for the Chicago suburbs to spend the X-mas holidays with my brother and New Year's Eve with my mother in downtown Chicago.... Quiet family times are best....

I'll be going to my parents' place and have them cook for me. The best thing about holidays is I get to eat without having to cook cause someone else does it for me. So yeah, healthy dose of family vacation.

LOL sounds like a plan :mtongue:

I will stay in my home with my family eating some good x-mas food:vsign:

Seriously, it's like snakes and ladders without snakes or ladders... roll dice, move, get to end, win. done. yay, again anyone? (kind of like life for an idiot)

oh and eating good food without cooking anything, now you're in a man's world :eek: :vsign: :mtongue:

LOL you are an ass... :rolleyes:

But hey, I deserve to have some cooking done every once in a while. I cook lunch and dinner every day (that kinda makes me a housewife lol) and it's the one thing I hate about living by myself, so it's okay to have my mom and DAD cook for me, just like it's ok to spend New Year's kicking your girlfriend's granny's butt at some kiddie game, you manly man, you :mtongue:

what about the game "GO"? any experience playing that.

Its grand to eat without all the preparation.

We always used to play games like charades or maybe BLOCKBUSTER QUIZZES. CLUEDO Was always popular.


Not any more though-- the youngsters are too busy with their latest tecno gadgets to be interested in old fashioned board games.LOL

I believe that NEW YEAR is special for the Japanese-- with much exchanging of GIFTS?

Have fun-- it should be great experience in your first year in Japan.

what marathon is that James?

lol I'm sorry I couldn't resist after that rant you went off on the other day ;)

Hakone ekiden I think it's called, a 5x40km marathon with university students from tokyo to hakone (near fuji), strangely popular

I love go, and reversi / othelo, great games, rivaling chess

I'm flying back to America to visit my family. It will be nice to drive a car on the right side of the road again (I have rented a big American luxury car for my stay) and to eat real pizza.

Quiznos and the pizza joint near my friends place are where I spent a lot of time last trip back home lol
oh and I love rootbeer so i loaded up on barqs lol

I plan to linger around my house up until a few days after Christmas, then head up to the in-laws for New Years. Christmas is a normal workday in Japan, so my husband doesn`t have the day off.

No gifts - money in little envelopes for children instead. Otherwise though, it has a family oriented feeling quite similar to Christmas in the west... Families gather and spend the time at home together. My husband`s parents` house is the main house (本家) for their family, so relatives will come from all over Japan to spend the New Year there.

oh right Nyrororin,

So wrong information re exchanging gifts.

quite nice idea to give children some money.

Usually the money is promptly taken by parents and put into a savings account - a lot of children have their high school education paid for by the money they receive at New Year. (Of course a small amount is used to buy a gift of choice, but most is saved.)

I'm probably just gonna do a LOT of sleeping to make up for all the times I have to get up early for college and work.
I'll probably sit around playing my Xbox for a while too with my limited free time XD

On a sadder note, I have to do a ton of revising for January exams in Geography.
I also have to do location scouting and filming for Film Studies as well as an essay on CGI in film. :mad:

What are you studying? :)

I don't get holidays at this time of year. It's the busiest period of the year for us at the ski resort so there's no chance any of us get any time off. As Christmas is on a Saturday this year I do have the day off though and will be having some friends around for dinner. Went and bought a nice big turkey and some pork (with plenty of fat on it for crackling) today for the dinner. Can't wait!

Always have a video skype call with family back in Aus as well.

well. on Christmas with my family...haven't been around much since my university and my new place is some distance from them.
new years...em. big party like usual - mby at my place (i have a bathhouse) or at my friends who also has one and then jumping in the frozen lake.
tradition is to pour luck talismans out of tin horseshoes on new years eve. aside from that - well, going to sauna, having drinks and smoking lots of waterpipe just like every other party :cool:

Nothing. I'll pretend that Christmas and New Year doesn't exist and spend them just like any other day. After what happened at the last new year's party, this year I want my holidays to be as quiet as possible.

I'm studying A-Levels (not sure what the equivalent is for your country) in Film Studies, Geography and Photography. :D
Lots od studying for all though, because exams are looming ever closer...