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it is really very hot here today. we rose at what i thought was 11 but in actual fact due to my inability to read cool old wooden clocks when my eyes are half shut it was 10. still an extra hour on our day is always nice. i ate breakfast then went upto the temple to record the sound of me walking round the temple on the wooden decking. i am still in awe of its antique and beauty. the sound of footsteps padding around the surface is amazing and from a fixed point the recording recedes and then escalates as the person walks away adn toward the point of recording. i have an animation to show along with the recording. nice nice. chris and i realised last night just how much actual work we are getting done while we are here. it must be a truly inspiring place. i think anywhere this new and different would have to have a major impact on our perception of both this and our home environments. lovely. anyway, we have spent the last two hours helping to spring clean the temples in preparation for the mass congregation of monks to arrive on tuesday when the tendai-sect will worship at otagi-ji in a rememberance srevice, type thing, for the establishing monk,senkan naigu, who built this temple in 1192, after it was moved from the otagi district (central kyoto) where it was first founded in 792 but washed away when the kamo river flooded in 1192. the exciting news is that we are the first ever foreigners to ever help in the upkeep of the temple and its estate. e.v.e.r. cool, huh? thats alot of responsibility for us. but we did our best and the temples are looking spickandspan...lol. as i said to kosho, they will be done in a different way to how it is usually done, but to the same high standard. (if i could put a cheesy photo of a winking cheeky monkey then i think it would be muchos appropriate right now.) talking of monkeys there are some in the forests round here. we haven't seen any yet but our eyes are peeled. nice one. anyway, wanted to get in from the humid, heat and thought i could let you know the progress. still on a high after many comments and compliments on my work last night. grin.
here is a photo of our opening last night taken from across the very busy street without a tripod, sorry if its blurry im stioll to look through all my photos from yesterday. i took another 300. eek. zip-drive soon me thinks.

catch you later.x