Yeah

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

doburoku

im going to try making a home made sake, doburoku, or rice wine tonight

I want to connect with people at a deep level. I don't want to know people in passing. I want to know less people, and I want to know them more, and I want them to know me more.

today

went running this morning barefooted
my feet almost went numb

ive been eating a lot of persimmons, mandarine oranges, kiwis everyday that grow locally and organically on Sado

i sent a box of persimmons that i picked, to a vegan running friend who lives in tokyo

im going to attend a conference on organic farming, food safety and environmental issues this afternoon

ill check out a fleamarket on the way
a friend of mine is putting up a booth there

and maybe go to the library as well

its nice out