Oh Kyoto
I've been a lazy bum, haven't I? I've been in Kyoto for over a month now, doing absolutely nothing, and haven't written in this. Oh well, I wrote in my real journal, so you lose.
Kyoto's nice, as always. I like the history and the wooden buildings and the mountains a lot, not to mention the company. It's kind of dead though, like if you take a big, interesting city and then at 6 pm suck all life out of it, that's Kyoto. But Amanda and I can work around this. Between pizza parties and renting movies with Ashley, daily walks through the mountains and fields, lots of Bomberman and DragonBall Z, making dinner every night, and frequent excursions into Kyoto proper, it's been a lot of fun. Not to mention all the visitors we've had.. first James visited Ashley (her boyfriend from England) at the beginning of February, then my friend Nadav from Tokyo stayed with us the past week, and now Amanda's sister Nichole and Nichole's boyfriend Patrick are staying with us until we leave Japan, on March 12.
So Amanda and I downloaded the Buu Saga of DragonBall Z, considering it's the one we've watched the least amount of times (1/2 for Amanda, 1 time for me). At the end of the last episode we watched, Vegeta is dead, everyone thinks Gohan is dead, Buu is killing everyone, and Goku is being brought back to the land of the dead, and as he leaves the world in the hands of two 8 year old boys he smiles and waves to everyone that's gathered and says "Good luck fighting Majin Buu! Bye!". Ok Goku.
The plum blossoms are blooming right now, kind of a prelude to the sakura that we won't get to see. They're really pretty, but they give this faux air of a spring that doesn't quite exist yet. "Wow, plum blossom, you are very nice! But I am cold."
Oh and Amanda and I are going to Europe. It was cheapest for some reason to fly from Osaka to Glasgow than to just fly straight home or through any other major city (??). So we're making an 11-day stop there when we leave Japan on the 12th, and won't be back to America until the 23rd. We've already bought train, bus, and plane tickets to take us to Edinburgh, Stockholm, London, Birmingham, and Liverpool. The hostel in Stockholm we're staying at provides a free sauna, free ice skate rentals, and free pasta without sauce; will Sweden be ridiculous?
Kyoto's nice, as always. I like the history and the wooden buildings and the mountains a lot, not to mention the company. It's kind of dead though, like if you take a big, interesting city and then at 6 pm suck all life out of it, that's Kyoto. But Amanda and I can work around this. Between pizza parties and renting movies with Ashley, daily walks through the mountains and fields, lots of Bomberman and DragonBall Z, making dinner every night, and frequent excursions into Kyoto proper, it's been a lot of fun. Not to mention all the visitors we've had.. first James visited Ashley (her boyfriend from England) at the beginning of February, then my friend Nadav from Tokyo stayed with us the past week, and now Amanda's sister Nichole and Nichole's boyfriend Patrick are staying with us until we leave Japan, on March 12.
So Amanda and I downloaded the Buu Saga of DragonBall Z, considering it's the one we've watched the least amount of times (1/2 for Amanda, 1 time for me). At the end of the last episode we watched, Vegeta is dead, everyone thinks Gohan is dead, Buu is killing everyone, and Goku is being brought back to the land of the dead, and as he leaves the world in the hands of two 8 year old boys he smiles and waves to everyone that's gathered and says "Good luck fighting Majin Buu! Bye!". Ok Goku.
The plum blossoms are blooming right now, kind of a prelude to the sakura that we won't get to see. They're really pretty, but they give this faux air of a spring that doesn't quite exist yet. "Wow, plum blossom, you are very nice! But I am cold."
Oh and Amanda and I are going to Europe. It was cheapest for some reason to fly from Osaka to Glasgow than to just fly straight home or through any other major city (??). So we're making an 11-day stop there when we leave Japan on the 12th, and won't be back to America until the 23rd. We've already bought train, bus, and plane tickets to take us to Edinburgh, Stockholm, London, Birmingham, and Liverpool. The hostel in Stockholm we're staying at provides a free sauna, free ice skate rentals, and free pasta without sauce; will Sweden be ridiculous?
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