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Sunday, October 27, 2002 |
 Went to bed- strong wind
Was going to use kotatsu
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Karaoke against better judgement
Horrible
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Uchiage in kominkan- bit pathetic
Romantei- ate too much
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Mochitsuki
Fruit game
Feeling effects of cold
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Service
miki
Kagura
Shishitaiji
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Candy floss
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Festival- sake, amazake, zenzai
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Hakama
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Spent most of the day on the side of a mountain (a small mountain, it has to be said, but a mountain nevertheless), on by far the coldest day of the year so far. Which- of course!- was why I was wearing just shorts and a T-shirt...
Actually, there is a reason for my complete lack of suitable clothes. I was at Washibe's shrine to play taiko with the Kagura Hozon-kai for the festival. A couple of days earlier, Okamoto-san, who plays the flute with the group, brought along a haori and hakama (traditional Japanese formal clothing) to our practice, and suggested I wear them for the festival, a suggestion to which I agreed (hence T-shirt and shorts- they wouldn't be seen under the haori and hakama).
However, nobody had bargained on the weather suddenly turning so winter-like (everybody else had fleeces and hats!), and also I'd (not unreasonably) assumed that Okamoto-san would be turning up at nine o'clock like everyone else, so I could change immediately. But no!- it was about half-past ten when she arrived! Great. Even the people in arctic gear (Washibe's festival is very popular with the local Eskimo contingent) were moaning how cold it was, so for me, dressed for a day at the beach, the wait for Mrs. O wasn't exactly pleasant.
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Updated: 8/1/03; 8:51:36 pm.
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