Once again, the ever generous Bing family sponsored an outing for our program. It was even better this time because we got to miss class...I mean, it was ever so unfortunate that I had to miss Japanese class to attend this enriching cultural experience, but it was a necessary sacrifice.
Our monk guide.
All thirty or so of us, along with our Japanese teachers visited Taizoin, a Zen Buddhist temple. We were greeted at the front gate by one of the monks, who spoke impressively good English, and were led into the temple. We were led into a room with low tables set with brushes and paper. The monk then went on to explain the art of shodo (calligraphy) and once his explanation was pau, we got to try our hand with the brush.
There was a book with samples of characters to draw. I really wanted to paint the circle, but that was surprisingly difficult. I practiced a bunch of different characters just fooling around, and couldn't really decide on one to do for my "masterpiece". So I went with 気, mostly because I like drawing horizontal lines. They're easy!
Lunch was this vegetarian business, but surprisingly filling and delicious.
Dessert was equally yum!
Afterward, afterward...Oh, yeah, I went back to school and realized that I actually had a lot of work to do because my E40 homework was due the following day, so I enjoyed a bit of conbini ice cream (actually it was rather disappointing today, it was this melon ice business with ice cream, but there was this weird chalky candy in the melon ice, a poor description, but that's the gist of it) then homeward bound to work on E40. Hooray!
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