Boxing Day.

Today we have work. 

Before that though, it's Saturday and we have karate training. 

The strangest thing happened- I was only saying yesterday how it would be super cool to try the kusanku bunkai - recently we have been working on the shiro matsu no kon bo bunkai- that is very cool- albeit a little scary- we have come very close to hitting each other hard around the head with the bo!! 

So I go to training today and we are practicing everything and we did a bit of the bo. Then Sensei said he wanted us to do kusanku - 'hai Sensei'

Then he says kusanku bunkai- James looked a bit surprised too! 

How did Sensei know that that's what I wanted to do. It's all a bit creepy!! 

So after training we have laundry to do. Today is bedsheets and dogi. 

Jeff got thrown in too ;) 

I made ninjin shiri shiri too- one of my favourite champuru okinawan dishes. 'Ninjin' is a carrot and apparently 'shiri shiri' is the sound the grater makes when you grate the carrot! 

So basically it's grated carrot stir fried in sesame oil - sometimes with onions and other veg/ spam, salt, pepper and some 'hon dashi' which is powder stock. Then once it's cooked a bit you add eggs and let them cook too. Then tada, ninjin shiri shiri. 

Way more successful than my Goya champuru attempt. 

Tonight, one of our friends from miyako- jima brought us some omiyagi - it was purple potato cream break. So oishee! 

Coffee and purple bread for breakfast will get me up and running ;)