Back again! There is loads of stuff to upload about the last few weeks. I have been traveling around the country, studied Japanese and explored Kyoto. I am a bit short on time tonight thou, so this post is only going to be about today, and the last couple of days. I caught a cold a while ago and I have not been attending classes or training, but I am starting to feel better now. The place where I live in Kyoto is called Sakura apartments. Apart from me it is inhabited by a guy from Qatar, an American, two from the UK, a French guy, an Italian and two Japanese. Today I moved to a new room downstairs. It is like the nicest room I have ever lived in. But I am glad I am not staying here over the winter. The place is a traditional old-fashioned Kyoto town house, with loads of charm but absolutely no insulation. It is already starting to get really cold inside. Give a couple of more months and it is probably gonna be totally freezing.
My new room (ground level) seen from the garden.
Study corner with the garden in the background. The room has double outer walls with sliding doors and a little porch or passageway in between.
As in most traditional Japanese rooms, there is a "tokonoma" (decorative alcove) in one of the corners. I do not have much to put there, but at least I have not clogged it up with a TV set and a pile of mixed junk, as 21 century Japanese cultural tradition would dictate.
Evening view from the garden.
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