8.7.20

This picture was taken in a friends garden. I met this friend while I was living in Japan. She was a well known high school English teacher who loved to cook. This woman gave up her job as being a teacher to pursue her dream of teaching people how to cook. She invited me to her house to pick vegetables and bamboo, then she taught me how to cook one of Miyazaki’s famous dishes, chicken namban (fried chicken with a tartar like sauce). This picture is of me its the bamboo shoot I picked from her garden. Tens of mosquito bites later, i’d say it was a great experience.

xoxo,e

8.6.20

What do you think this is? This picture is a bunch of small wooden dragonfly carvings. I went to pick blueberries near my house, and the blueberry farm owner also had a wood carving hobby. There were tons of wooden sculptures around his workshop. He told me that each dragonfly takes a few hours to make. There was also a bunch of dragonflies he arranged to look like a symphony. Each dragonfly was playing a musical instrument. It’s always nice to be a jack of all trades, isn’t it?

xoxo,e

8.5.20

By far one of my favorite things about living in Japan. This is a picture of Japanese matcha (green tea) and wagashi (sweets). There’s something about the bitterness of the matcha and the sweetness of the sweets that I love, love, love! If you can see in the photo, the cup isn’t filled very much. I suppose there is suppose to be a balance between between the two being served and enjoyed together. Thankfully, I can enjoy matcha at home still!

xoxo,e