Last Friday

Last Friday, I went to Kyoto with my close Japanese friend and the international students from the Netherlands. One of them were in KGU last year, and he came back again for his school project. My close Japanese friend is dating with him, and the three of us are good friends:) It has been about a year since we saw last, so I was really glad to see him again! After greeting with some guys who I saw for the first time, we went to the temple which sacred to Shinran. Shinran is a great priest who is patriarch of Joudo-Shinshu(a kind of Buddhism) in the Kamakura era. The picture below is the inside of the temple. I forgot its name, but it was so big and beautiful!


We walked for a little while, and we got to Toji-temple. This is also in Kyoto. The picture below is the five-storied pagoda in Toji. There were also some huge statues of Buddha, but we wern't allawed to take pictures of them. It was so great, so Iwanted to take some pictures of them...! Some guys enjoyed feeding turtles and carps in the pond in Toji. There were no kappa..haha:)

We enjoyed dinner after that and I got home around 11.00p.m. that day. When I whiled in my room, my cell phone rang. I checked the E-mail from one of my friends who works at the same cram school as mine. It was sent to me with 2 pictures, and they made me so surprised! On that day, my cram school was flooded! When I saw the picts, I shouted "Oh my god!!", because I've never had flood before. The picture below is the flooded class room!

The picture below is the street in front of the cram school, and as you can see, it looks like a pond! My friends who worked on the friday soaked calf-deep in the "pond". We can't still use that cram school, so we need to borrow the space in the different building to have classes!

Thank you for coming!;)

Aloha!

Have you ever seen "Disney's Lilo and Stitch 1,2"? I really love these movies, so I often see them on DVDs. Of course I love the characters and the story. But things which especially I like with these DVDs are...the SONGS!! My dad loves Hawaiian music, so I've heard it since I was a little girl, and I love it! The picture below is the CDs of "Lilo and Stitch". There are some Hawaiian songs in these CDs. Most of the songs are sung in English, but some are in Hawaiian:) I especially like "He Mele No Lilo". I can't understand Hawaiian now, but I'm really interested in Hawaiian, so I want to learn it some day. Oh, you can read Hawaiian though! Because they are written in the Roman alphabet! I think most of Japanese students have studied the Roman alphabet when they were children;)



The pictures below are the snacks from my Canadian friend! She gave them to me a little days ago.There are snacks which I've never seen in Japan in the box! We exchanged some snacks of each country. So, I sent her some Japanese snacks! She was really glad to get them! I think, Japanese people like plain tasted food. The tasts of snacks from the other countries are a little strong (I love them though).




This is a cup of Canadian maple syrop! It's a genuine maple syrop:) So it must be good I think! (I don't have it yet) And you can see some words in French. Why is that? Because my friend who sent it lives in Quebec. In this state,they speak French! I'm studying French, so I wanna go to Quebec some day!



And this is a jar of maple butter. I've never seen it until she gave me. According to her,it's really popular food in Canada. We can eat it on toast, waffles or crapes! If you have a sweet tooth, you can eat it by itselt!! haha :D Actually her father does!

Aloha!!("Hi", "Good bye", "Welcome", "I love you" in Hawaiian)
Au revoir! ("Good bye" in French)