Miho's life now and 10 years ago

10 years ago I was just married and started a new life at Durham in North England. I always think I was born under a lucky star. So I can say that I am always quite happy and lucky. However, from the end of 1999 to the beginning of 2000, I have had the happiest time. On 12th September 1999, we had a wedding ceremony at a small local church and a reception in the small hotel afterwards in Northumberland, the U.K. Chris organized everything and many people came to celebrate with us. That morning I felt I was the happiest person in the world at this moment!! After that my Swiss friend invited us to her mum’s second house for a ski trip and to spend the Millennium time together. Then I found I was pregnant at the beginning of February.

Since then, 10 years has past. I still feel I am pretty lucky and happy with life here in Sharjah. Though within 10 years we have moved to 6 houses and 3 counties, but we always met nice, helpful friends. And now, all my family is healthy and we have very kind and nice friends here as well. For our 10 years wedding anniversary, we decided to come to Switzerland to meet our friends and ski. We are very happy to see all our old friends in Switzerland and enjoying a proper winter season here in Grindelwald.

my future plans

In 2010, I have some plans. First, from February I will be a proper volunteer staff of the NPO Japan-UAE cultural center. I am going to attend the meetings, organize some events and teach Japanese for UAE students sometimes. Second, I will try hard to study English until I finish the web 2 English course. Third, I will start some exercise soon because I have put on weight since I came back from Japan last summer and I haven’t lost any at all.

Also I have some things that I am planning to do in 2010. First, I would like to invite my sister’s family here, because they haven’t visited us yet. Second, I am planning to go to the U.K. and Japan during summer holiday to visit our families. Finally, I am going to tidy and sort the house more so I can relax in this house.

In the long-term future, I would like to get part time job here. I am planning to find some possibilities. Also, I would like to live in different countries, for example, Switzerland, Spain, China, Malaysia, etc, when we don’t have to worry about our children’s education

My year in 2009

After finishing 2009, I feel I had a good year after all. I can’t think of many bad things.

Some of the good things were as follows. First, my parents and my younger sister came to visit us in Spring. Then, we had nice a summer holiday in the U.K. and Japan. We spent a happy time with both family and friends. And in October we moved to a big house in Sharqan. Now we are enjoying the big space, garden and easy access to our nice friends!

Some of the bad things were as follows. Just before moving in here, I found my yoga place that I used to go to in Sharqan has closed down. Also the Japanese food shop in Ajman just moved to Dubai at the end of 2009. I was very disappointed about that.

Chris’s parents managed to come before Christmas and are staying with us now. So for me, the year 2009 was a very warm year because we spent quite a long time with Chris and my parents and both relatives, which was very nice and I think the most important thing for us.