last weekend… sunday spent walking around kyoto… saw some geishas dance, play music and be pretty… went to ginkakuji temple… took pictures… had fun… went to an english pub for pints of beer and fish and chips

Momoyamaminamiguchi Station

Hey!
I’m getting better at this finally… I’m posting photos that are from today!
I went to Uji, in Kyoto, today with Sacchan (who I met because she was my “speaking partner” but now she’s really just my friend) and her friends Tomoko, Kanappe, Yuri-chan and Rea. They all speak English pretty well and are really sweet […]

一番: This is the entrance to the main train station in Kyoto. It’s an enormous building and is the most expensive train station in the world. I’m writing a short paper on it for my architecture class.
二番: With that class I went to Daitokuji temple, which is actually many temples. They are Zen Buddhist temples, […]

Hey, here are some photos from my spring break trip to Hokkaido. It was FUN and you’ll all hear more stories about it when I come home.
ps. If you hold your mouse over the photos a little description should pop up.

Hey everyone,
I’m back from Hokkaido, which was amazing (heaps of good snow, food, fun times) and now I’m just trying to get used to being back in classes again. Just found out this morning that I need to learn about 25 new Japanese verbs for a test tomorrow morning. Yikes.
Anyway, just thought I’d mention that […]

I’m going skiing in Hokkaido and will be gone for a week. I’ll start posting again when I get back!

Miyajima was sooo nice! It’s close to Hiroshima and I went there on Sunday. It’s a little island about a 10 min ferry ride from the mainland, and has the big red (more orangish though) torii that’s a pretty famous symbol of Japan, I think. It was still kind of cold when we were there, […]

Saturday morning I was up at 6am to catch the shinkansen (bullet train - goes ~300km/h) from Osaka to Hiroshima. I was with a huge group of about 70 other students from the uni here, cause part of the reason for the trip was to listen to a lecture by an a-bomb survivor set up […]

Awhile ago I wandered to Osaka on my own for an afternoon to see an exhibition of modernist art at the Osaka National Museum of Art. It was really easy to get to and it was a gorgeous day, so I didn’t mind (in fact I really enjoyed) just walking around by myself, doing whatever […]