I have my Canadian Passport now! Woo woo! I'll soon be getting my Change of Name Certificate, which means I can then complete my son's citizenship certificate. I hope to have him baptized soon too.
Anyway, I now have a sister-in-law, and as I'm visiting Osaka in February I must learn some Japanese: but what? Nihongo? Katakana? Kanji? I should learn the feminine forms of spoken Japanese, correct? Or can I get away with a broader or masculine form because I'm gaijin?
I'm also going to immerse myself in some Japanese culture over the next six months -- some Yasuhiro Ozu films, some Akira Kurosawa, Haruki Murakami, Yasunari Kawabata, Shusaku Endo, Natsuo Kirino and Hitomi Kanehara books (in translation, of course!!)... but what if my in-laws are unfamiliar with Ozu or Kurosawa? What if they don't watch movies? or read books? I don't know much about my sister-in-law, only that I can count on going shopping in Osaka. Do they have kombucha tea in Japan? Oolong is very popular, I know that.
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