La Japoneisa: One Ordinary Sunday

Ichioka san called last night and told us that finally he has found a karate dojo.
Training is tomorrow and I am very excited. Yay!
Today I even found a shinkyokushinkai karate gi top. Will have to ask Wayne if I could borrow the gi trousers that belonged to the top that he had uzurped.

Also I might become a carpenting apprentice. Spoke to Mason today, and he said that when I've mastered my Japanese I could maybe become an uchideshi in Kyoto and learn carpentry and then restore all the houses in Iya :-D.

It was a wonderful Sunday today. All the guests, and there have been a lot of them in the last few days-Mason's friends that he had brought with him from an adventurous cruiseship, lot of funky people, especially Al and Natalia and Thomas, well anyway, all of them left, Mason together with Hana chan, Wayne and Bo went to help out clean the surroundings of the local school close to here (consisting of approx. sixteen students and five teachers) and so they all left and Annie and I had the whole house to ourselves and it was wonderful. Quiet and peaceful, once we've cleaned it we could actually see the house and it was empty and clean and beautiful.