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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »