Tales From The East

Hey everyone! Everything is going well here. Just booked my hotel in osaka and kyoto for the week off about 200 dollars for 2 different hotels 3 nights each. Not terrible at all bout the same as a cheap hotel in the US. I will be rooming it up with sean for the week. Today we went to Mt. Takao which is I believe the closest mountain in the area about a 2 hours drive from town by bus. Ofcourse on top of every mountain there is a temple and all the goodies along with a temple. Cool place not much in the ways of vantage points which was slightly dissapointing but it was a fun trip. We got up the mountain by cable car which is apparently the steepest cable car trip in the country.





The previous night Jonathan and I went into hon atsugi to get our keys because we missplaced them. Afterwards we got dinner then attempted to walk to toys r us which was a failure because it was closed when we got there. Then started walking towards home in hopes to catch a bus. Ended up walking most the way missing one bus and catching another which just took us about 2 stops near my apartment.

The last weekend was pretty fun. There was a sports festival that was going on so we watched some of us participated to. There was a food race where students ran to eat something at 2 stations that were nasty concoctions of curry marshmallow and calpis(a popular local drink company that makes soda) and coffee beans. I played a little basketball with our roommate and some other japanese students.




Monday we had off so I hung out with folks and relaxed. Tuesday was most difficult because our launguage teacher decided to test us and basically show all of us in the advanced class that we suck. Never the less it wasn't a serious class.

Forgot to tell this story that I told to my ma the other day. Justin, Michael and I were in shinjuku going to our train and this mild mannered japanese man asked us if we spoke english then asked if we could give him three hundred yen, then he preceded to bow down on his knees and beg for the money, totally unnecessery but we gave it to him because whats 300 yen gunna hurt. Anyhow it was weird but it just goes to show for a very stubborn honorable country you must dishonor yourself if you are begging for someones money. Its just one of those experiances.

Thats about it for now will update in another few days anda I will have a video coming soon as well. Take care!