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 »
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 »
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 »
I’ve said it before: the Japanese really don’t understand breakfast. Read the rest of this entry »
The Japanese are big on punctuality, and the tea world in particular requires great attention to timing. Here at Urasenke, everyone is expected to arrive ten minutes before the time they’re supposed to be anywhere. Thus it was that we left the dorm at about 8:15 to be at the school at 8:20 because we’d been told to be there at 8:30 to be ready for the ceremony that started at 9:30. Read the rest of this entry »
Today Szymon and Verena let Sean and I tag along on a hiking trip to Hiezan (or Mount Hie, if you like), the second tallest in the series of peaks surrounding Kyoto. I had been vaguely aware that there was such a thing as hiking in Japan; now my aching body knows it specifically. Read the rest of this entry »
We don’t ordinarily get fed on the weekends, but since school activities were conducted today, they brought us sandwiches last night for this morning’s breakfast. Since there were a few extra onigiri yesterday, though, I had stashed one away, and ate it for breakfast instead so I could save the sandwich for tomorrow.
Today all formality was expected. Read the rest of this entry »