I Think Im Going to Japan to Study Bonsai!!!

Sorry for the lack of general information this last year but at least the bonsai are still growing. I have been pushing the envelope a little this year with the decision to go to Japan for a trial acceptance in Spring of 2016. Most would get wrapped up in the craziness of that decision. I just simply wrapped myself up in the fact I dont speak Japanese. Well with a good deal of panic and a great excitement I enrolled in a class and hired a tutor to help me. Now im well on the way to speaking some embarrassing broken Japanese. So it slowly set in that at 33 years old I am going on a great adventure of a lifetime and couldn’t be more excited and terrified. The largest weight was taken off my shoulders when a great friend Matthew Ouwinga called, after I texted him with the exciting news that I was going he called to tell me “Im going take care of your trees for you” REALLY “yes I want you to have trees when you get back from Japan”. I have to say for those who don’t know thats a big deal for anyone to do for someone. So now I know where my trees will live so back to the books and study.

Being nervous would be the understatement of the century but I really dont have much time to think about it with 2 days a week going to learning Japanese and still going to Boons for intensives as well as working full time. I am testing that old saying there is not enough time in a day, there is not I promise.