doorbell fright

...with very little japanese under our belt, whenever we hear the doorbell or the phone ring, we kinda freak out (now i can understand why my mom hates answering the door)...we definitely want to meet our neighbors but it's soooo hard to communicate to them at this point...


...today we got a ring at our door...it was one of our neighbors who had in her hand a sign-up sheet that had to be read, signed, then passed on to another neighbor...


...thankfully, the neighbor, who spoke a little bit of english, and claire, using her japanese phrases, were able to understand each other...


...now it was our turn to go to a neighbor and give them the sign-up sheet...somehow i convinced (or maybe coerced is the better word) claire to do it...after practicing her phrases, claire went to mrs miyamoto (our next-door neighbor) and she did great!!!...


...yeah claire!!!...mrs miyamoto is a very nice and friendly neighbor...