School Festival

It's the school festival today at the Big Pink People Factory and despite it being my day off, I went along anyway, because I'd promised some students I'd go and see their show. I must admit I was really impressed by all the time and effort they had put into their various shows, performances and mini-exhibitions. If only, I thought, they put they put this much effort and commitment into learning English. Then my life would be so much easier... but, such things are not to be. (*sigh*) Regardless, it was a very pleasant day, although I did get a bit of a headache trying to read all the kanji in the mini-exhibits... I'll be going back tomorrow, to see the rest of my students or as many as I can see. Unfortunately, I won't be able to schedule every class in so I'm sure someone is going to feel aggrieved...


Fresh posts up on world-famous (to be) Deep Kyoto today. The first is on Earth Kitchen Company, a friendly little organic lunch-box shop on Marutamachi. And the second is on the rent-a-cycle/cycle-tour company Kyoto Cycling Tour Project. I got Taga-san to give me a short interview for that last post and the poor chap was sweating it a bit having to speak English on camera. The words "traffic congestion" especially were a bit of a hurdle. But the end result was he did very well indeed. Here's a wee blooper.