As we, your Okinawa Hai managers, flipped the pages of our 2015 “Our Okinawa” {Hai} calendar, we couldn’t help but think back on what the first half of this year has brought for us: for one, the tears and sadness and even rejoicing of separating from the military life; for another, beginning a new chapter of her life: beginning nursing school in addition to running Okinawa Hai (and all our Overseas Yes sites); for the third, a move from one Japan duty station to another.
Change. It happens each and every year, and looks different for us all. But one of the changes we like best is the one where we begin thinking ahead to the next year. Looking forward to:
The Okinawa Hai 2016 Calendar featuring stories, haiku, and photographs by YOU!!!!
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OH Cal 11 Front
Soon, it will be time for a new calendar to grace our kitchen walls. A calendar filled with glimpses into what it means to live the Okinawan Experience. A calendar that will exist because you will spend these rainy weekends looking through your photo files for the perfect pictures. The ones that say I LIVE HERE. The ones that will make you smile in ten years when you find the calendar in some random post-PCS storage box. The ones where you can almost smell the sea, or the sky, or the sushi. THOSE pictures.
And then there are the stories; the haiku. Your favorite moments of this island life. Stories of the grace of our Japanese neighbors, of a language faux pas, of getting lost and found all in one afternoon, of truly enjoying Okinawa. Be thinking. We’ll want to hear about them… soon.
In the mean time, we’d love to hear what you’d like to see in the 2016 Calendar. Any favorite categories or holidays or topics or experiences?? Put on your thinking caps and let us know!!
More soon.