Before You Die: Spend a Year Doing Zen Minimalist Things in Japan by Binyavanga Wainaina
Train to be a Sushi Chef (for one-seventh of the time it takes). I make these inelegant sushi rolls with smoked salmon and soft white Ugali (a Kenyan Maize-meal dish) - it would be great to live and train in a place that is the opposite of everything I come from. Maybe I'll come back a tidy and organised person. Maybe I'll commit Hara Kari for failing to cut a symmetrical fish.
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