La Japoneisa: My First Time (a genius and a cucumber)

Today was my first time to feed the chickens. I peted them, whistled at and fed them and so soon they are going to become my friends.
The fence is almost done now and the conclusion is that I am an engineering genius. Apart from being an engineering genius I also turn out to be a kitchen-prodigy-child. The JackieChan-murdered-chicken stew and the 'soupu' (cucumber salad that HanaChan refered to as 'soupu') were rather delicious.
Everything is cucumber. I think I might become one. They look so peaceful and inner-y balanced as they lie in silence on the kitchen island.

Today was also my first time to drive our K-truck to my first class of taiko. The journey was rather interesting (on the way back we saw a tanuki no ko (baby raccoon) 8-), and taiko was so much fun (the higher amount of fun being v. probably linear with the lowest possible amount of rythm and skill (though people with rythm also seemed to have lots of fun. hmm. to be revisited)). Omoshirokute tanoshikute hontou ni wakuwaku datta yo!
The taiko guys are very thunderous.
Annie described the class to me as mostly relaxed time of sitting, chatting, smoking and drinking and thus, naturally, I was very happy to find them all in action, and indeed, was highly impressed. And so, as the verdict has it, I also, except for cucumber, want to become a taiko suru hito (easy peasy with all the talent and natural rythm in me) (though, and I am not making this up, I was told that people with no rythm make the best taiko players, mmm).
Not giving up on self!
Self is half eaten by mosquitos.
Self dislikes mushi.
Self still can't speak Japanese.