06 March 2005

Last Updated: 06/03/05

 
Pokapoka youki.  (or ぽかぽか陽気 if we want to be entirely accurate and show off a bit...).  There are many different ways to talk about the weather in Japanese - there are very specific phrases you can only use at certain times of year, and there are lots of different words for the different types of snow.  Pokapoka means warmth, and youki means cheerfulness (or weather)...the phrase is use to describe a lovely spring day.  

Incidentally, there's another phrase that means "3 days of cold weather followed by 4 days of lovely warm weather".  But that's Japan for you.  

Anyway, today can definitely be described as "pokapoka youki".  No snow...a bit of a breeze...lots of sunshine...

Has spring arrived?!

Today has been a very "Japanese" day.  (Ok, so every day is a Japanese day...but anyway...).  After our Japanese lesson (hence the lecture above), we went to an ikebana exhibition, enjoyed some green tea and Japanese ame (the Japanese sweet that goes with the tea), then set off on a minor exploration mission on our bikes.  

Have you ever seen a corgi with plastic eyebrows?  (sorry, no photos)  

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