It must be tough being a Geisha

Wednesday

Sado (tea ceremony) lesson today from 10am to 12pm!

AND I WORE A KIMONO!

It’s really a skill to know how to put on a kimono correctly. There’re like millions of layers and must tie here and there. So you can imagine how uncomfortable and heavy it is to be wearing a kimono.

Grandma and her 2 students. The guy learnt sado for 7 or 9 years (oops I forgot). The girl learnt for 2 years. And this is the sado room. It’s designed by papa-san! He’s an architect by the way. This room is beside his office and this whole building belongs to him.

Snacks for sado. The snacks change with the season. This is for autumn.

Here’s the message of the day: SADO IS THE MOST DIFFICULT THING ON EARTH!

Every single movement and position has to be so precise. You have to do everything at the same slow pace. Basically, you’re supposed to prepare tea for everyone seated there. Making one bowl of tea takes like 10 -15 minutes.

The girl went first, then the guy, and then it was my turn to try! It’s quite fun when you’re the one doing it. But it totally sucks being the one waiting. I don’t know how the Japs can sit in that position (see 1st picture) for so long and their legs not even numb. I almost died!!

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Lunch at home. Ate champon (noodle soup), which is a main/popular food in Nagasaki.

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3.40pm: Pick Hikaru up at school

4.00pm: Send Hikaru to Child Academy. It’s like some kind of enrichment class. The purpose is to develop the child’s right brain. The class consists of: 1 teacher, 2 students and their mums. So I sat in today for the lesson. It was so interesting! They do so many things during the short 1 hour. Sing songs, count numbers, maths, memory skills, pronounciation, visualisation skills, colouring, listening comprehension, dance, blah blah. The most fascinating thing is this: there are many sets of cards and the teacher will read and flip the cards super super fast. Like before I can even see the picture or word on the card, she flip to the next card liao. There are cards on numbers, birds, fruits, flowers, months, famous people, occupations, etc.

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Grocery shopping for dinner at supermarket. Hikaru bought 3 Tamagochi chocolates. Haha so cute.

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Haruki and I made kusudama origami. We figured out for such a long time because the instructions are so vague! And its in jap so I can’t even read what it says. But we finally got it and we split the work by my favourite – specialisation. Haha! Haruki fold everything, and then I do the last few steps which is the trickiest and hardest. We’re gonna continue and finish up the kusudama tomorrow! Must make 36 of that cone-like thing. Now, we have 23.

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I’m typing this on MS Word cause it’s 12.15am now and I can’t go online. Im too lazy to anyway. So I’ll just post this online tomorrow maybe, when I’m free. More fang bian this way.

Okay, time to sleep liao. I haven’t lay out the bed yet. Sian..