Today, 21 May, is our university's foundation day, it is also Saturday. Classes are cancelled for the day (yes, some classes are held on Saturday here). Yay! I hear you say...well yes, but not quite. In order to observe this day, there is a formal gathering out at our western Tokyo campus (where the university was established in 1924) and all staff are required to attend.
And we did. Dutifully.
In addition to the foundation observances (and the birthday of the founder), there was a ceremony recognising the long service of several staff and, just so we didn't miss out, an all staff presentation on curriculum mapping...true. Well, if you're going to go to work on a Saturday, you know, you might as well make it worthwhile...
After lunch, we all headed off in our homeward directions. I had to purchase tickets for a trip to Fukushima next weekend, and then it was dinner time.
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| Bonsai bloom |
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| In the garden |
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| Raw ginger |
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| Samplings of a sort |
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| Samplings...of another sort |
We tried this little restaurant having come across it in a newish book extolling the virtues of our little part of Tokyo. Not bad. We'll be turning the pages on this book for a little while yet.
[Camera : iPhone 6S, 6.06pm-7.18pm, 21 May 2016]
