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Tokyo Sessions... | |||
With all the free time I've had lately, I've been trying to get more serious about my fiddling. Tokyo has about 7 different Irish sessions that I know about, and I've been to all of them except one. So far the most enjoyable one was the session in Ueno, at the Warrior Celt pub. The pub may be small, noisy and crowded, but session members get half price drinks and the other members were very friendly and welcoming. During this particular session, there was a family of four watching us play. I found it a bit strange to see kids younger than 10 inside a pub, but they were very enthusiastic about the music, asking me many questions about violins. The girl, about 6 years old, and her mother even asked me if they could hold my violin for a minute. Before they left, the father came up and thanked me profusely, bowing several times. I almost felt like I was famous or something! |
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2007/03/21 |
Chris Returns to Japan! |
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Chris and I go way back, we met in University where we did all kinds of crazy stuff like study Linguistics, take Japanese classes, and go tree planting in Northern Canada. That's where we met actually. The two of us would practice our Japanese while sticking tree saplings in the ground, to the entertainment and consternation of the beavers, blackflies and our fellow tree planters. |
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2007/03/24 |
Hanami 2007! | |||||
Hanami season is here again! After a late start due to strangely cold weather, the cherry blossoms finally came out. Kumi and I went to look at the trees twice, once in the day and once at night. Despite what you may think, night time hanami viewing is very popular, with people heading to parks in the evening then drinking till late at night under the cherry trees. In the dark, and with the park lights on, the hanami trees take on a ghostly, mysterious look. |
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2007/03/31 | |||||
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