Written from notes taken July 19-21The attendants got me far enough away from the snoring that I was able to sleep a fair bit, and I woke up feeling refreshed and ready. (It was a good thing indeed that we had bathed the night before ( Read more... )

Well, it’s been another great week here in Tokushima. It’s been very hot. Sometimes at school it gets so hot that the air conditioning is permitted to be turned on. The rest of the time, the controls are kept hidden away. I almost wish there were more school visitations planned for the summer, because then we’d have air conditioning for those days ( Read more... )

On Saturday we went on a temple run. Thanks to F. and K., I got off my kiester and charted our course through the first five temples.

It was a hot day, and there was a lot of riding - the route up to Temple 4 was mostly uphill, but it wasn’t as bad or as time-consuming as I thought it might be. And coming down was fun - I basically drove in the ( Read more... )

After the hockey game (I’m probably watching too many of them), I made the trip back to Naruto for Temple 1 ( Read more... )