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More snow at Chugushi.

And meeting up with an 'old' friend.

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Today I rested, then went for a ride with Dox. I'm really busy up until I leave Japan.

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It's been a while. Months in fact. But today I had a lesson in tea ceremony.

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snowing again

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A visit to 21_21 in Tokyo near Midtown.

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One of the schools I work at...

lays beneath a sleeping volcano.

The last eruption was roughly two hundred years ago.

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Watching Kendo practice at school.

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A really old old house in Kanuma

This one is from the Meiji era. Once again, in Kanuma.

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Churches in Nikko

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Plum blossoms...a sign of spring.

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Completed work...

and work in progress.

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A view of Mt Nantai...

on the way to work.

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Student art work.

And signs around school

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Today is the first day of spring according to the old Japanese calendar.

The second graders made mochi (rice cakes) to celebrate the first day of spring.

The red looking mochi has a sweet red bean paste on top, the other two have powdered soy beans on them. Fresh mochi is so good!

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Japanese breakfast...(at a hotel in Nasu)

and macha made by a Japanese friend