A Shirasagi Christmas

 

Our first Christmas as a married couple was spent in Japan, sadly it was also our first Christmas away from our families. Technology today does make it easier to be able to call back home via video chat, especially during the holidays. Although we were not in the U.S. we were able to to celebrate the day with the other English teachers in the building complex. We set up Christmas decorations and had a traditional Japanese Christmas meal: fried chicken. KFC had a very successful Christmas chicken campaign in 1974 and now most Japanese eat fried chicken at this time of the year. It's so popular that you have to make an order of chicken in advance, otherwise places either run out of chicken the day of or there are huge lines. After eating our chicken, we had chocolate Christmas cake and we played some trivia games for the evening.