Kimono and photography

Its official..Monday is the worst day on my calendar!! I dont know what it is about the day, but it always turns out dull:)) When the alarm went off at 7:30am, I just couldnt believe it!! It felt like I had been sleeping for 30 minutes!! I still dont know why I havent yet fully adjusted to this time zone! I was atleast glad that I forced my eyes shut at 11pm yesterday! And I didnt give the television a chance to play the Samson and Delilah game with me.

I think the television is one of the reasons why I cant sleep! There are so many good commercials..( can you imagine I am watching TV for the commercials?) ...well, yes I am. Like I was saying, the commercials or rather the Public service Announcements are so good. I like the brains that go into making them. They give you something to think about. One of my favourite is on Tobacco smoking. Now instead of throwing the famous smokers body that we Ugandans like using, the Americans have created an ad that starts by showing Good looking people smiling. In the ad, 6 people are shown upclose one after another. In the beginning, the viewer is taken up by their good looks until after the 3 person, you realise that all their teeth are yellowed / black. Then the ad ends with a good tagline which I cant remember right now!! But these adverts really give you something to think about.

Today's schedule was abit hectic. We continued with photography. Learnt something about composing a perfect shot. This saw me huff and puff in the late afternoon looking for practical subjects to shoot! It wasnt easy! I am glad that tomorrow, I will have more time to shoot more subjects.

The highlight of the day was attending the traditional Japanese tea making ceremony. Two ladies clad in Kimonos, took us through the exercise. It is a cermony that requires alot of skill and precision. The kind where everything is done for a reason! There are 3 sets of sentences that are spoken before one picks the traditional cake, takes the tea and after drinking the tea. The tea is not the usual brown stuff that I am used it. It is green tea. The Japanese are one people that I have seen who love to live healthy. I mean the green tea is picked from the shrub and not mixed with any chemicals. It is no wonder that the life expectancy for men is 78 and women 85 years. So the green tea powder was crushed and mixed with precision and with Japanese words mentioned at every stage. It is a really detailed tradition and I wonder how long it will take me to learn all that. After the tea had been made. Traditional cakes were served followed by the tea. The cakes looked yummy on the outside. But when I bit into it, my palette kinda disagreed! So I didnt finish it. But I finished my green tea. And I am glad I did because there was a mention of longer life.

After the one hour tea ceremony, It was time to meet up with the dance team and rehearse for our presentation tomorrow. Though 8 out of the 10 guys turned up, we still managed to pull it off. I think it went well.
Oh, I am sorry gotta go. The computer room is being closed. Talk to you tomorrow.