Day 14 at the Kushi Institute

Today iit is beautiful.  The sun is shining and it must be about 75 degrees outside.  I have been here for two weeks and the time is just flying by.  It has been nice being some place that doesn't have a TV so at dinner and afterwards many of us spend a lot of time talking and getting to know each other.  Make-up and facy clothes is not important since we have to get up early to exercise and then go to classes I skip on the make-up and my hair is going to be in a bandana later in the day so it gets pulled back into a headband.  At the beginning I felt naked without my make-up and my hair looking perfect but after awhile your skin feels better by the foods that you are eating that you don't want to cover it in make-up and chemicals.  My hair is starting to have a nice shine so I don't want to douce it with hairspray.  When I get home it will be interesting to see if I will go back to wearing foundation or not.
Tonight I am going to practice my shiatsu massage technique on one of my collegues called Noemi.  She is from Japan and she is a student in Level one classes.  She owns a restuarant and got sick by eating all the fried foods that she was cooking.  A friend told her about Macrobiotics and she started following the diet and got better.  She came here to learn more and is going back and changing her restaurant into a Macrobiotic rstuarant.   I asked her if she was going to loose all her clients and she said no they are excited about the change.
Today for lunch we had some steamed squash which was great.  If you are looking for a quick vegetable to eat I would just cut up some butternut squash, acorn, or one called Kabocha.  It is so good for your digestion and will nourish the pancreas.  The squash is naturally sweet so you won't be have a sweet tooth later in the day.  All they did was  add a pinch of salt into the water and that was it.  I am learning how to just let the vegetables stand for themselves instead of always trying to add things to them or change them.