Friday, May 17, 2013

Kyoto!

Day 2 in Japan! And actually my last one! Only 2 days =( But Dr.Chen has been great at making sure I do as much as I possibly can! So earllllllllllllly morning today so we can take the fast bullet train to Kyoto in under 2 hrs!






Kyoto is such a cute place. Very historical and therefore very touristy! We go see some beautiful temples and of course go shopping in all the cute shops!








The first temple we went to was beautiful. Sorry I don't actually know any details or even the name of the temple! lol but I did love it. There were tons of school children jockeying for the best views. People selling charms and fortunes. As we were walking out an older gentleman stopped us and asked us if his schoolchildren could ask us some questions they prepared. It was very adorable. They asked us our names, where we were from, and had their own answers prepared for our questions =) Afterwards they gave us little folded paper gifts (I got a pencil!) and I gave the little girl who interviewed me one of the random bouncy balls I had in my bag =P





We explored Kyoto for a while...ate lunch, got ice cream, shopped (I bought some presents =D), visited another site and after a loooong day in Kyoto we catch the train back to Okayama where the Japanese students had a fun dinner planned for us!






The dinner was amazing! We all sat on the ground on cushions...none of us could sit on our knees very long =P We had fun, ate, drank, and thanked everyone. Sensei Yabe and Dr. Chen thanked the groups and each other. And Charlie even sang for us! =D I think we have like 10 videos of that happening =P The Japanese students presented us all with personalized cards they had decorated and written personal notes on it was very sweet! The Okayama students were just so amazing and really made our trip to Japan great =)


We said goodbye to most of the students but some of us went to Karaoke! =) Wow Karaoke is fun in Japan! We seriously need karaoke like this in the States! We rented a room in this 3 story karaoke place and we drank and sung to our hearts content =) It was an amazing end to my 2 days in Japan =P I got no sleep last night since we had to leave at 6am AGAIN for Taiwan soooo time to go to bed now and I'll fill you in on my time in Taipei tomorrow!







2 comments:

  1. I love the story about the schoolchildren!

    But what is The Great Pumpkin? IS it Halloween in Japan?

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  2. Great Pumpkin was the Karaoke place =)

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