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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »