At 9:00 a.m. a car picks me up to take me to the Buddist temple where I am teaching my seminar. This doesn't look like a Traditional Temple, but the outside looks more like the geneology library in Salt Lake. It is too far for me to figure out how to get there. I would take an hour and get hopelessly lost. It is really probably a twenty minute walk, but you know me.
We only have 11 students this time, but that is a good number. I can and will work with each and every one of them before we are through.
Time here is interesting. I have left my compture on UTAH time, but as I write this, it is 9:27 a.m. on Monday, March 23 and 6:28 pm on Sunday, March 22nd. It feels really strange to send you an email today and have you get it yesterday!
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Breakfast and hotel gardens
The hotel has traditional Japanese Gardens planted around the windows. It creates a look of being in the forest, but you are in the middle of town. The garden in the photo at the right is maybe a yard deep, but that is a generous estimate. I will take more photos later.
When you go down to breakfast, you give the Person a coupon that shows you are a guest of the hotel. Breakfast is served buffet style. The food is very good, and choices are vegetables, eggs, (my favorite is the soft boiled eggs in sweetened soy sauce.) fish, bacon, sausage links, and salad. They have soup at every meal. I usually choose water and Tomato Juice to drink but they have milk and orange juice as well.
Most people choose to sit facing the window so that they can look out at the garden. There is very soft classical music playing, and very little talking. I think I have heard two conversations. One on the first day, and one yesterday. It makes dining a very pleasant experience. The music isn't blaring at you and the people are not shouting to be heard over the music. It creates a very peaceful start to the day.
When you go down to breakfast, you give the Person a coupon that shows you are a guest of the hotel. Breakfast is served buffet style. The food is very good, and choices are vegetables, eggs, (my favorite is the soft boiled eggs in sweetened soy sauce.) fish, bacon, sausage links, and salad. They have soup at every meal. I usually choose water and Tomato Juice to drink but they have milk and orange juice as well.
Most people choose to sit facing the window so that they can look out at the garden. There is very soft classical music playing, and very little talking. I think I have heard two conversations. One on the first day, and one yesterday. It makes dining a very pleasant experience. The music isn't blaring at you and the people are not shouting to be heard over the music. It creates a very peaceful start to the day.
I'm here in Japan
Hi,
Sorry to be a little late in blogging, but for the past three days, I have been too tired to think! I am here in Japan, staying in the Hotel Grand Shinome in Tsukuba, the Science City. The rooms are very small, but comfortable. I step UP into the bathroom. I am on the top floor of the hotel.
The first night I was here, we went out to eat Sushi. It was very good. Mr.Kanzaki called it a Sushi Bar, but it was more like a Denny's restaraunt that specialized in Sushi.
Sorry to be a little late in blogging, but for the past three days, I have been too tired to think! I am here in Japan, staying in the Hotel Grand Shinome in Tsukuba, the Science City. The rooms are very small, but comfortable. I step UP into the bathroom. I am on the top floor of the hotel.
The first night I was here, we went out to eat Sushi. It was very good. Mr.Kanzaki called it a Sushi Bar, but it was more like a Denny's restaraunt that specialized in Sushi.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Getting Ready!
HI!
Gentlman Jack, or Queenie is sitting by me, trying eat my braid every time I move my head. I wish I knew if this was a male or female cat, and to whom he/she belongs. If I figure out how to get photos on the computer I will stick a photo up here.
Wish me luck!
Gentlman Jack, or Queenie is sitting by me, trying eat my braid every time I move my head. I wish I knew if this was a male or female cat, and to whom he/she belongs. If I figure out how to get photos on the computer I will stick a photo up here.
Wish me luck!
Getting Ready for Japan!
Hi There!
Part of getting ready to go to Japan is creating this blog so that I can keep an online journal/scrapbook of my trip. I just hope I can figure it out and make it as nice as my daughters-in-law have made theirs! They are so creative.
I have figured out how to put photos on my laptop, or at least I can get the photos into the USB port, just can't figure out how to get them onto the computer! The user manual is almost useless. I wish they would pay more attention to the way they write these things! As soon as I figure it out, I will put on some photos of before and after.
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