Today at the village festival, which I attended after completing my assignment two weeks early, I was encouraged to take part in an activity called katanuki in which for a small fee, I randomly selected a thin candy square with an animal imprint on it.. the challenge is to remove the animal without breaking the candy frame, using a safety pin.

Seemingly my wife has never seen this completed successfully.. today on my very first attempt, I completed it and won a giant inflatable baseball bat for my daughter.

.. It didn’t seem like something that few people complete but there were a whole lot of people coming over to watch. Life is weird sometimes.