We were a nice lot today - although one of our regular "Thursdayers" was absent, I could still count 5 happy noses!
Thanks for coming & spicing up the various discussions - Katie, Isabella, Crystal, Abigail, and Alexandria. So, our main topics today? Very naturally, going to enjoy the Cherry Blossoms here & there. 4 out of 5 members told us about their visits to various nice and less nice destinations. Chrystal went all the way to Tokyo as she wanted to visit Yasukuni Shrine, Katie (I think it was her) made it all the way to Shizuoka with her friends but unfortunately was a little too late, as some green leaves were already peeping through. And Abigail and her group made use of the "notorious" blue sheet, as they were ten of them. So, as we can see, everybody is enjoying the beginning of Spring!
By the way, Alexandria explained to us that the beginning of the Japanese 花見was apparently groups of farmers praying for a good rice harvest for the coming season.
Today we studied using another episode of our new friend with the strange name of Nasreddin , you can read about him by clicking on his name, and this is the way he looks:
Hope to see 100s of you soon!
The "Master"
