Pottery Day 2

I heard we were doing more pottery yesterday since there were two new wwoofers who needed to get their hands in clay! Although the new French wwoofer Xavier passed on making something, Emily said of course.

 At first we tried to fire up a kiln outside but we got rained out and had to run for it to the garage. From there we made camp again with the pottery teacher and Emily started over.

 Meanwhile, I was crossing my fingers that my owl would be cooked enough to survive a plane ride but it would take two hours to find out. So we spent most of the morning and part of the afternoon with clay and stoking a fire, but after that was over the pottery teacher pulled out bread mix! 

We rolled out the dough into long pieces and wrapped them around barbecue sticks, roasting them like marshmellows! 

It was very tasty :) 

In the afternoon since the rain stopped we went and weeded for a while, showing Xavier a few of the tricks of how to really pull some grass. For dinner everyone had curry followed by splurging in the French wine Xavier brought! Here's Mihoko approving of the first taste.

 I had some OJ with my banana bread (the dessert) and it was an evening filled with a lot of laughter--but that's a sound I could never get tired of. I am trying to soak up all I still can before I leave on Tuesday, but I can already tell this place has left me with a desire to visit Japan again one day. I feel very blessed to be taken such good care of here and finding a lot of happiness in daily things, even for instance watching TV on Emily's computer as we sit on the edge of our elbows ready to laugh and scream at the suspense of our scary show, or being able to teach others about my life, culture, and language. I think at the same time though I have a little voice that finally can peep loud enough, "There's no place like home" and I have never fully appreciated that until I left home 8,000 miles away.