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The Christmas party was fun.

There were a lot of small kids running around the old house. I played hide-and-seek with some of them for a while. The kids were SOOO energetic; amazing and great.

I got to meet and talk to a lot of people I didn't know or hadn't really talked to.
Almost everyone's job and life envolves nature/ outdoor stuff like woodchopper, carpenter, farmer+yoga teacher, bamboo artist, etc. No one works for any big cooperations. I found it interesting and very nice. I enjoyed talking to them and listening to their stories.

I enjoyed the food too. There were lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, and soups and other dishes that everyone made with love. Great.

I enjoyed the party very much.

A fine day of a snowy day

I did capoeira performance at a small drumming show/concert with the people I practice with. It was fun. Everyone seemed to have enjoyed it :) I'm glad a friend of mine came to see the performance and she said she was impressed.

I made a dish with purple yam and black soy beans and took it in a bamboo container to the Christmas party at Enrique, one of the capoeira teacher's house two days ago. Enrique brought the bamboo container back, which I hadn't expected. He brought some home-dried persimmons in it to toady's practice as a snack for people. It made me very happy. He said it would be a good idea to put a bamboo charcoal inside it, as a natural preservative. (He makes bamboo charcoal by the way) I like the idea and it made me even happier.

capoeira and ping pong

I go to capoeira class 4 times a week
and to ping pong club 2 times a week

i enjoy them both

Tree planting party :)

My dad and I planted some baby fruit trees near the cabin on Monday.
one persimmon, 4 fig trees, one silver berry and a date tree.
We bought the persimmon seedling from the store but Kuzuhara-san and Ooyama-san gave us the nursery trees of all the other 6 fruits. Kuzuhara-san said some of the fig nerseries from his parent tree might bear fruit even from next year.

I'm thankful for their kindness and so impressed that they had multiplied and saved the baby trees as a natural habit! They are cool people.

I'm excited to see the trees grow! yey