School Culture Festival today. Lot’s of students running around excitedly in costumes, handing out flyers and trying to drag poor innocent bystanders along to watch their performances. One ends up being pulled in several different directions at once and inevitably missing something. I think my Japanese listening skills may have improved since last year though as I seemed to have a slightly better grasp of what was happening during the stage acts. I don’t want to hear “Country Roads” again though. I’ve heard that song one too many times today. This weekend should be busy. 英会話 at the Clinic tomorrow morning. Then back to the Culture Festival to catch whatever I missed today. Then Randy Weston live (singing Country Roads?) at Kamigamo Shrine tomorrow evening (which I expect will be awesome) and the Veggie Fest on Sunday. I’m planning to hand out some Deep Kyoto cards to hapless victims foreigners. Speaking of which there is a poll up on D.K. on the subject of commercialization. I think I may have been overdoing the ad thing both there and on this blog too. What do you think? Has Deep Kyoto Sold Out? Cast your votes!

This is Randy Weston: