Labour Thanksgiving Day
Today is Labour Thanksgiving Day, and although I have no idea what it is meant to represent we have a day off school and Linden Hall.
I spent some time pottering in the morning, before heading out at about lunchtime for one of my walks. I want to get to know what Japan is really like by going down the backstreets and seeing what's there. Of course I took my camera to document my journey.
The walk wasn't as pretty as my first one, as I'm gradually discovering that Japan isn't a uniformly beautiful place. Instead, there exists the very strange phenomenon of pockets of high-class, surrounded by dabs of rundown nastiness. For example, there was a path on my way made of bricks and looking relatively new placed between a main road and some shabby houses. It looked so out of place, as if it had been extracted from a longer path and dumped there. In the same vain, there are plenty of attractive looking houses, but they are always surrounded by ones that are less so. There never seems to be a "well-off" area and a poorer area as are so common in England. Both seem to be intermingled into one.
Upon my return to Cambridge House, I spoke with Hachi-san for about 30 minutes. I asked him where a nice place to go would be, but he couldn't think of any. Instead he concocted a day trip that he said he'd take me on. Beginning with orange picking, we would then go wine tasting. After which we would visit a doll's house and an historical building before eating eel for lunch. Hachi's such a nice guy, and he's always going out of his way for us. He even printed a photo out of The Cream Tease that he took when we rehearsed downstairs for each of us. I get slightly nervous though, sometimes, when people go too far.
The rest of the day was taken up with some pool, showing off my Japan photos and eating a not so nice dinner. Maybe we'll watch a DVD later.
posted by Edd @ Wednesday, November 23, 2005
3 Comments:
I think you'll find thast it is Thanksgiving Day in the USA as well. Steve will no doubt confirm this. Charlotte is attending a Thanksgiving dinner with her American studies group.
No eel darling - yuck!xxx
Edd:
Yep, just got back from a Thanksgiving Day, seven hour extravaganza at my Management Officer's house today. Lots of eating, basically. As my cousin in Las Vegas says: "Trust the U.S. to come up with a holiday celebrating gluttony!" Which is about right ...
Dianne heard a radio commentary on the ABC in which an interviewer talked with the American essayist Garrison Keeler .... he was giving his opinion on Thanksgiving:
Americans making their way back to their homes and families, and then at the end of the holiday,leaving, knowing that moving away was the best thing they ever did. As he says, there is nothing like a Thanksgiving get together to cure homesickness. And that there is no difference between a bad pumpkin pie and a good pumpkin
pie, it being a vehicle for nutmeg as far as he can tell.
Illuminate? S 'n D.
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