MOCHITSUKI 2007
I love
Japanese Culture.
A great
thing about my work is that I am surrounded by it. I work with my Japanese staff
, talk with Japanese guest, eat Japanese snacks , I even got to liking drinking green iced tea
with my lunch. I even got someone to talk about my Akira Kurosawa movies which
I watch and collect in DVD’s. Plus I get to brush up with my Japanese.
In my trips climb Mt. Fuji .
to Japan I already started to collect Japanese items I have a nice Kimono,
Happi coats and even Tabi socks. Hopefully this 2007 I get the chance to
In my 2nd
New Year here I again participated in the hotel’s MOCHITSUKI festival.
A Japanese
tradition of welcoming the New Year by making rice cakes called mochi. The rice
pounding Last year I only got to pound
and eat this delicacies but this year after pounding I actually got to make a
batch and man the mortar without getting hit by a mallet .
It was fun
sharing this festivity. Even the hotel guests got into the act along with some
US Navy personnel staying the hotel.
This is to
a prosperous new year to all.
