Today is setsubun in Japan, the last day of winter. Japanese people celebrate this with some odd traditions. One tradition is to have somebody wear a devil mask, while the rest of the family throws beans at them. Then they pick up the beans off the floor and eat them. That means they will be healthy during the next year.
Also, it’s a tradition to eat sushi while facing the lucky direction (this year is apparently southwest). You are supposed to eat the whole roll of sushi without talking, too.
Cool traditions, but I only did the sushi one today.
At school I had just two classes, so I spent some time with Mr. Hayashi studying, and also had a really fun ESS club meeting. We had four members there today, but we had a guest boy that was lingering in the area. We talked him into joining and I think he might have had a good time.
Tomorrow is Friday, and I’m looking forward to wrapping up the week. This weekend should be interesting because I might be having dinner with Kuniko’s family. I haven’t heard yet whether it’s going to happen for sure, but if it does we’ll be handling some interesting topics.
