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  Now it is the night of New Year’s Eve¹. Are you finally enjoying a relaxing time? I hope you are. (So I hope you are reading this after New Year’s Eve!)

  I’m finally relaxing in the living room with Will. In December, which is a busy time for everybody,  it is a bit difficult for me to write two blogs like the other months. In recent years I often write the last blog of the year on New Year’s Eve after dinner. I can enjoy it more than writing it when I’m busy.

  Well…

  Today, Will put away² our Christmas stuff³ while I was doing other things. (In western countries they usually keep Christmas decorations up for a while⁴ after Christmas. The Christmas holiday continues until New Year’s Day, so they keep this festive⁵ atmosphere⁶.) Since we were enjoying the warm Christmas lights and other decorations, it is always kind of⁷ sad to put the Christmas things away.

  I’m going to put away these red cups in which I served hot tea and coffee to my adult students for the whole month of December.

  And I’m going to say good-bye to a reindeer⁸ who was a new comer⁹ this Xmas and was sitting on the windowsill¹⁰ greeting us on cold mornings.

  Anyway, hoping to enjoy another Christmas next year, we will close our big Christmas box where we keep the tree, lights, candles, a nut cracker and Santa dolls — and put it in the closet. It was so much fun…

  Pretty soon, we will have the countdown for the New Year. Thank you to our students, my family, and 2022!!

  p.s. In the blog on Nov. 15, I mentioned that one swan in the Hirose river had died because it had bird flu and I was worried about the other swans and ducks. Fortunately, the other swans and ducks are all well!!