June 24, 2007- Sunday
I'm back..............I haven't written in here for a while because of various reasons....I went to Kyoto and Osaka in late May and after that I moved to be closer to my work location. I currently don't have access to the
Internet like I did in the past, but I should be able to be more frequent now....at least once a week. So much has happened in the last month and a 1/2. Kyoto was nice. I saw a
Maiko show, which is for all of you westerners, a young lady...usually between 15-17 that looks like a Geisha.....in Kyoto they don't really say Geisha...they say
Gaiko....I'm probably spelling it wrong, but that's my understanding of it....I'm going to try and upload some pictures and a video from the experience. Osaka was awesome.....I ate
Okonomiyaki for the first time....
Negi-
yaki to be exact....it was
oiyshi....delicious...
Part of the reason I took this job in Japan was to experience another culture....to see the differences and similarities, and I realize that although the west is
different from the east, there really are so many more similarities than differences. We all laugh, cry, experience joy, and even pain the same way. I've also realized that young people are the same everywhere it seems.....at least from what I've experienced in America and now in Japan...one example is of when I went to the 99 yen shop. I went there to pick up some bottled water and a few other items.....the total came to 936 yen, and so I gave the store clerk 1036 yen. She happened to be a teenager...anyway, she put 1031 in the computer by accident and it said that I should get 95 yen back....when she saw the 5 extra cents that I had given her, she realized it was too late to enter it in again.....so instead of giving me 100 yen, she proceeded to take out a
calculator and to find out the correct change she should give me.....I just looked in astonishment because truth be told....there are many teens in America that are completely computer dependent. Please repeat after me, "I am smarter than the computer." Computers are not supposed to be smarter than humans because we are the ones who make the programs and software...they don't make us....let's go back to the basics.....
On another note......I'm going to China
tomorrow....
Watashi wa ashita Chugoku ni ikimasu.
yeeyyyyyyy....I'll be back on July 1st so I'll update it then or on the 2
nd......
.......until next blog with pictures....I think that will be above this blog......
K
June 24th- Okay, so here are some random pictures of Kiyumizudera Temple in Kyoto....it's actuallly been nominated to be a wonder of the world....I have video but I can't seem to upload it....I also have a picture of the Maiko performing and a shop, a candy shop to be exact in Kyoto called, "White Lover." ?????? I just had to take the picture and finally some random shots of folks in Harajuku.....I hugged someone who was advertising that he was giving away free hugs....they do that a lot here in Harajuku....groups of people stand outside of the train station and hold up signs that say, "Free Hugs." Enjoy....
