 It's Friday and it's actually really crazy because today we are going to a place called Hanyu, which is super far away. Oh my gosh, I just looked it up and like I need to show you guys on Google Maps so you can see how far this place is. So this is where I live right now, okay? And I have to take this long train path for an hour and a half to Hanyu station so far outside of Tokyo. Oh my goodness. It's gonna take me like an hour and a half, almost like two hours to get there. It's really far out inside Tama. But we're going there because we're doing Indigo Dai. We're using Indigo Dai to make Shibori patterns. And Indigo and Shibori are two actually very quintessential Japanese textile designs, I guess you could say. And it's two designs that I really, or like two things that I really wanted to learn at Boonka. So I'm really excited about today. I have a little bit more time this morning because we have to get there at 11 o'clock, which is obviously much later than I start school. Normally I start school at like 9.20, but yeah, today we just so happened to have a little bit more time this morning. And of course I have my trusty cereal. It's so good. All right, so I officially made it out of the house. I'm running a little bit late, which is okay though. I just texted my teacher being like, don't worry, I will be there. Otherwise I'll catch the train. It's gonna be a long ride, so I'm excited. I'm gonna wear the t-shirts and tie them up with elastics. Just like I did, I'm only doing the sleeves to prep the shirts for dyeing. I've never actually explained this, but the type of indigo dyeing that I'm doing today is called kagosome. And kagosome basically means dyeing with a crate. So essentially the first step, right after I finished washing the t-shirt, was that I had to put it in this lovely crate. And so once I was done scrunching the t-shirt, I basically put another crate on top of it, and then I tightened it up with some metal rods, some really thin metal rods. But as you can tell, I didn't do a very good job, so I had to ask my teacher to redo it for me. So once my teacher did that for me, I then went right into the indigo vats. These vats are two meters deep, by the way, they're very, very deep. They use them to dye really long and wide pieces of fabric, which is why they're so big. But yeah, so we had to wait and dye it the first time for just, I think it was about three minutes. And then we took it out for a couple minutes, let it oxidize, let it get some air, and then put it right back in. So... After I finished putting it in, I think I did three rounds of three minutes. I then took the shirt out and brought it to the bath outside that's basically just water. And essentially, as you can see, the t-shirt's actually green. It's not blue, and that's because it needs a bit more time for it to completely oxidize and aerate. And my teacher was telling me that I needed to open it up to let the air kind of pass through it. And then you can see that it actually turns blue, which is really cool to watch in real life. It's such an awesome process because it's completely natural. Howdy. And then I decided that I wanted to dye this Sachiko fabric, which I had bought. And I basically wanted to do a gradient. So I asked the man who works there how to do that. And I basically was told that I need to first put it into a vat with some very light colored indigo, just like a very small dose of indigo in this water. And then the second time I needed to put it in the much bigger indigo vat that had some darker dye in there. And I had to do it in little in layers. And that's how we got this really cool gradient effect. Stuff like this is Yuko-chan. She did some circles and some of my other friends were dying their bags. Some people brought huge pieces of fabric to die. And so this is just me walking around checking out my friend's designs. And now going back to the t-shirt that I dyed. This is me unraveling all the elastics that I tied on at first. And this is how it turned out. And right before we left, our teacher explained to us a bit about these threads that were hanging outside. And then it was time to head back home. So we took a taxi back to the station, and then took the train back home. That's it for today's video. Vlogging was so much fun. I missed you guys. I missed you guys. I'm so glad you guys were able to see this week in my life though, so yeah, okay. Talk to you guys later. Bye.