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Today I got up to go to the Tsujuki Fish market at 4:15AM. It was SOOOOoooo awesome! It was so busy, you had to watch out and avoid getting hit by cars and little carts. Some carts were carring fish, others were just zooming by at 10000000000 miles an hour. I went with Troi Orois and Laura Good. We looked at the tuna auction, where the tuna were huge- some over 5’ tall (taller than me!). It was so unreal! We found a little restarant to eat in. I ate a full bowl of tuna sashimi, miso soup, and tea. The restaurant owner learned to speak English in Scotland so he had a interesting accent, and tried to teach us more Japanese. He gave us all these photocopied printouts of his writing. EVERYONE here is so hospitable!! It is amazingly different then NY! We had to go back to the hotel for a lecture, and then after lunch, we saw a traditional Kabuki theater performance.
Kabuki theater is performed with musical accompaniment. A woman in a kimono “acted” out a traditional story by doing a dance. It was great! This evening, I went with a few people to a place to learn a traditional Japanese dance. We were put in kimonos and the sensai taught us a kabuki dance. We got to use fans and other props. IT WAS HARD! The moves were so calculated and the movement was so fluid. The teacher had been training since she was 2 years old!!! We got home really late from dance, and it was quick to bed for me!
Today I got up to go to the Tsujuki Fish market at 4:15AM. It was SOOOOoooo awesome! It was so busy, you had to watch out and avoid getting hit by cars and little carts. Some carts were carring fish, others were just zooming by at 10000000000 miles an hour. I went with Troi Orois and Laura Good. We looked at the tuna auction, where the tuna were huge- some over 5’ tall (taller than me!). It was so unreal! We found a little restarant to eat in. I ate a full bowl of tuna sashimi, miso soup, and tea. The restaurant owner learned to speak English in Scotland so he had a interesting accent, and tried to teach us more Japanese. He gave us all these photocopied printouts of his writing. EVERYONE here is so hospitable!! It is amazingly different then NY! We had to go back to the hotel for a lecture, and then after lunch, we saw a traditional Kabuki theater performance.
Kabuki theater is performed with musical accompaniment. A woman in a kimono “acted” out a traditional story by doing a dance. It was great! This evening, I went with a few people to a place to learn a traditional Japanese dance. We were put in kimonos and the sensai taught us a kabuki dance. We got to use fans and other props. IT WAS HARD! The moves were so calculated and the movement was so fluid. The teacher had been training since she was 2 years old!!! We got home really late from dance, and it was quick to bed for me!
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