This season has a few days still like summer in daytime, yet rapidly grow cool in the evening. As for kabuki dance practice, single kimono is better. Mei-Shun therefore chose following one whose textile Shin purchased for her, while Master Mei-Shu kindly asked a friend to sew. And a piece of advice from Master Bando is not to let it lie in a drawer for long, but to put it on as often as possible.
Spanish radio program Mei-Shun listen to is broadcasted from Monday to Wednesday. The same 15 minutes on Thursday and Friday seem to be for those who already won the 4th or even 3rd grade of the “Evaluación del Conocimiento Lengua de la Española”. She therefore made it a rule to train her ear, mouth and brain for above easier three days a week. What would come into the vacancy of two weekdays?
Oh, poor old textbook of Japanese Language Teaching Competency Test.
Thank you so much, Aunt K. She is the best cook, wife of Mei-Shun’s eldest uncle of father’s side. Still getting along with her sister-in-law, this aunty kindly sends handmade foods including following delicacy to MS’s mother every year. “But they are in the biggest bottles so far”, she emailed to her younger daughter. “Prepare the strongest bag to take one home”.
Yes, she did.
Typhoon Hagibis has gone. Mei-Shun wishes it to be the last beast to bite our country this year. If there is something good it brought, it might be fragrant olives: she recognized that sweet scent yesterday. Normally, they start to give it in the middle of September. She remembers a big tree in the garden of her high school, in full blossom when students prepared for autumnal festival.
Flowers are better as souvenir for you, mom-in-law. Mei-Shun visited her mother’s home today, confirmed that the latter is fine. They chatted on lunch and ohagi, rice ball coated with sweetened red-bean paste, of her handmade as dessert. She knows her younger daughter never rejects this delicacy for equinox, even if her weight is not well controlled. Well, actually it is.
And healthy you, cotton candy.
Mei-Shun’s first-tailored 下駄 finally made a debut last night. It was clear with bright moonlight, let her put them on walking to a nearby community center. She gave a lesson in kabuki dance to Professor M there, while had her own practice to make smooth steps on these pair of wooden sandals. When she came back home to put them off, her white 足袋=tabi, kimono socks were found … contaminated.
Purr, so you and I are protected by a lady on your ring finger, mom. She is wary enough to detect our wrongdoings, admonishes us if we are too lethargic. That what the omikuji lot you drew yesterday might mean. It is 大吉=dai-kichi, the luckiest saying “those who see this lot would have the sun in their hands”. And that is why you noticed without delay what I’ve done on your blanket last night!
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… and food for you, baby butterflies. Mei-Shun felt sorry when she found 2 of 5 disappeared from their previous places — her grapefruit pots. They were not lucky enough, born on smaller trees. Now all three survivors live on the biggest, yet soon starve or caught by birds. You had better move to a kumquat tree in the garden, she would help you.
You are the cleverest.
Oh, Mei-Shun was really, really surprised. Shin gave her a brilliant ring. He reserved a nice hotel in 遠刈田温泉 to celebrate an anniversary for the couple soon, meant to hand it to his wife there. However, maybe because she looked shocked missing the cute diamond on her marriage ring, he moved up his schedule. She immediately decided to call it 眼差しの貴婦人, meaning a lady of impressive eye.
Mei-Shun’s application for Spanish test was. It seems she lost all scenarios, had no reply from the secretariat so far. Anyway, it is she who made a mistake. She resumed listening to the radio program from Monday, in preparation for the next chance. Since it is re-broadcasting of April-September 2018, textbooks are already in her hands. Let her enjoy 15-minute hearing, followed by writing practice every weekday.
Baby, would you agree with your tail on one shoulder?
meishunkikunoe 