Low clouds clung to the mountainsides flanking the city as morning broke wet and chilly; it looked like good tea weather to me. Read the rest of this entry »
Low clouds clung to the mountainsides flanking the city as morning broke wet and chilly; it looked like good tea weather to me. Read the rest of this entry »
I was just hung over enough to have a lousy day while maintaining the appearance of functionality. Read the rest of this entry »
The days are gradually getting warmer. Yesterday we emerged from afternoon practice into a moment of bright heat that soon had us sweating in our samue as we wiped down the 3rd-floor tatami. Today was cooler, but we know it won’t be long before we’re suffering through a still and sultry Kyoto summer. Read the rest of this entry »
The only change I can report concerning breakfast is that last night, Verena, who doesn’t eat meat, gave me her ham sandwich, so now I’m a day ahead on food, which condition I’ll try to maintain to get myself through the weekends cheaper. Read the rest of this entry »
I figured out over the weekend that the reason we have breakfast sandwiches waiting for us on Friday nights is that they’re meant for Monday’s breakfast. Of course, I’d eaten mine by the time I realized it, so my Monday breakfast was a little tub of apple jello. Read the rest of this entry »
Turns out Episcopalians are pretty much the same the world over, or at least the white English-speaking ones are. Read the rest of this entry »
After a week of more or less hurried mornings, it was nice to sleep in and then knock around my room, doing some cleaning and enjoying my breakfast sandwich. Read the rest of this entry »
Ate onigiri and walked through chilly gloom to nowhere in particular.
Anita and I were on mizuya-cha detail today: cha being the Japanese word for tea, as in chadō, the Way of Tea. Read the rest of this entry »
Three half-sandwiches in today’s breakfast package: tuna, egg salad, ham.
Sean and I had heard that besides soaking, walking may do knees some good, so we left the dorm early and headed east toward a large swath of trees I’d seen from the roof of the building. Read the rest of this entry »
The breakfast rhythm seems to be onigiri, sandwich, onigiri, sandwich. So today was onigiri day.
As I’ve mentioned, we begin and end our days with chores according to the tōban list. Today was the first day that we newbies didn’t have special activities in the morning or afternoon, so we got to follow our senpai around and learn. Read the rest of this entry »