Friday was the last day of classes for my junior year of college. Final exams start next week. To celebrate everything, Hubbard sensei, our AKP Resident Director, held a pizza party at her house.
Following that, I went to my first ever 女子会 (joshi kai), or girls night out:
Today, Saturday, I went to Ohara to meet up with the people I'm gonna spend the next two months interning for. Ohara is a beautiful place north of Kyoto in the mountains. I'm going to be working on an organic farm and learning about organic cloth dying and weaving. I get to stay there too and I'll be living in a house with a girl around my age who's living in Ohara for about three or four years in order to learn the dying/ weaving trade.
The people I'll be working for are very interesting and different from most Japanese people I've met. They're super genki (full of energy) and welcomed me right away. I think my work will be hard but ultimately fulfilling.
The owner had her young apprentice show me around the town a bit and so we stopped by the famous Sanzenin temple:
Some of Ohara and its surrounding mountains.
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