This weekend I attended a foot massage lesson (in Japanese) at the community centre. I teach at the community centre once a week and the staff there are great. They always keep me up t0 date on the town activities and ask me to come along when I'm free. I knew some of the old ladies from my pottery classes were going, so I wasn't too scared to attend. I really just went for a laugh and to do the community thing, but it turned out to be really interesting. There was about twenty people, and they were all over the age of sixty. I wasn't expecting to learn much since it was in Japanese, but since the class was free and on a saturday morning I thought it would be good listening practice. However, the teacher was great. Very practical and there was more doing than talking. Five minutes into the two hour class and we all had our socks off rubbing cream into our pretty feet. The man sitting next to me was ninety-five years old and the class joker. Recognising me as another joker, we bonded right away. He was so cool. With five gold teeth and a big smile, he kept the class in stitches with his antics and flirty remarks to our teacher.
I never knew much about reflexology before, but now I can ease my neck pain by rubbing a spot on my big toe for two minutes. It's pretty freaky actually. The teacher had us try to touch our toes, then rub a certain spot on our foot, then try again. The flexibility difference was amazing. We didn't go into all the different body parts that can be worked on, but it's certainly something I'd like to find out more about.
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