Sushi: The Experience Begins... Almost.
The first week and a half of Sushi has been crazy and full of parties. So, when people ask me how I'm liking it here, I wonder how I'm supposed to know. Really, this is only an... appetizer. I'll only know for sure after the start of the main course-the classes-tomorrow. (It's been much like CPW... which we could represent as the "samples"-those little bits of teriyaki chicken on toothpicks that some Japanese restaurants like to give to passerby.)
I could also compare this to jumping into a pool, like what we all did for the swim test today. Pool water is always cold. Whenever I jump in I have some apprehension about how uncomfortable it'll be, and whether it'll be so extreme that I'll be thinking, "I.H.T.F.Pool," as I get out. I wonder if that was running through the minds of any of the swim test participants at the end of the four pool-lengths they had to swim.
It's now September 5th-heretofore known as "tomorrow". One might correspond the stroke of midnight with the bell beginning a swim meet event. It's at this moment when we-the swimmers- all leap out over the pool from our positions on the diving blocks. After that there's only a brief interval of time before we hit the water. I hope it's not too cold. Wait, I pray it's not too cold...
To whomever an agnostic prays: I.L.T.F.Pool! May that still be true when I climb out of it four pool-lengths from now.