Stano in Japan: First concert and other first time things...

First concert

This weekend we had a concert with Yoshie and Junko in a school where Yoshie is teaching. So here are few photos from our performance.

I was told that Japanese kids are very shy, and it is hard to make them speak or do something. But actually when we asked them to join us to sing and dance few famous Japanese children’s songs, they just jumped with happiness and sang so beautifully. It was really nice to hear about 600 children’s voices. Just like angels.

We also performed a Canon by Pachelbel with 2 girls from the school. One of them is really talented violinist. Her father is a guardian of local temple, so their family lives there. Very nice place to grow up.

We also had a little party in the evening and before that I was introduced to a local farmer, who is growing vegetables in organic way. He invited us to his house and his wife prepared for us lovely carrot juice and some magic potions made from vegetables and rice and plums and lettuces. It was like in a winery, just instead of a wine, we tasted vegetable juices and rice extract. It was very nice. It reminded me of Uma san and his Allanton morning super power juice.

We also visited Fuji sanctuary the next day, and joined their celebration of the founder’s birthday. It was interesting to see lots of tents with local produced vegetables and foods. More like a Sunday market in Slovakia. I met there also with Haggit, a friend from Izrael. She was very surprised to see me in Japan. We had a nice chat.

First shrine

After the celebration we went to a near shrine. It was actually a shrine I visited on my first visit to Japan in 2006. It was nice to see it again, this time in its autumn colors.

It is really beautiful now here. All the maple trees have amazing colors.

Even Mitsuyo bought a small maple tree for our balcony, so we can enjoy the autumn colors. It is very nice.