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Toki Soba

Hey lovely people!! So, today i'm going to show you a unique way of story telling in Japan called Rakugo.  "Rakugo  ( 落語 , literally "fallen words") is a form of  Japanese  verbal entertainment. The lone storyteller ( 落語家   rakugoka ) sits on stage, called  Kōza  ( 高座 ). Using only a paper fan ( 扇子   sensu ) and a small cloth ( 手拭   tenugui ) as props, and without standing up from the  seiza  sitting position, the rakugo artist depicts a long and complicated comical (or sometimes sentimental) story. The story always involves the dialogue of two or more characters. The difference between the characters depicted only through change in pitch, tone, and a slight turn of the head. "   -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakugo This is my favorite story, Toki Soba. Toki Soba During the Edo period in Japan there were soba carts that were known as two-eights. They were known as two-eights because one bowl of soba cost (2 times 8) 16 mon (mon was the unit of currency

Dian Fossey

HEYA!!! So in this post I'm going to introduce you my favorite woman figure. Meet Dian Fossey!! She is a really determinded primatologist that makes changes in the world!! Early Life Primatologist and naturalist Dian Fossey was born on January 16, 1932, in San Francisco, California, and grew up with her mother and stepfather. Developing an affinity for animals at a young age, throughout her youth, Fossey was an avid horseback rider and an aspiring veterinarian. However, after enrolling in pre-veterinary studies at the University of California, Davis, she transferred to San Jose State College and changed her major to occupational therapy. After graduating from San Jose in 1954, Fossey spent several months working as a hospital intern in California, and then moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where she began serving as director of the Kosair Crippled Children's Hospital's occupational therapy department in 1955. Living on a farm on the outskirts of Louisville, Fossey sp