Listening to CocoRosie this evening and taking my very first steps in learning Japanese with the help of two wonderful blogs: Japanese lessons and Kanji. I’ve made myself a notebook cover with sakura – it’s more fun this way. Let’s start counting days till I will be able to read my manga from Kyoto.

He set off to the long journey to the East. Then the spring came and he came back too bringing a light scent of incense together with him. And I was sitting and listening to his stories from the far far away, drinking sakura tea, smiling and silently dreaming of the day when, perhaps, I [...]