IMAGE HEAVY, /not/ dial-up friendly and all that jazz :(
THIS IS WAY BELATED..LOL the pictures arent even that dazzling EXCUSE ME I'M A LITTLE BASHFUL :#
yah enough of that big fonted stuff, some of the pictures were not taken by me!
I'm kind of tired at the moment and dont feel like rambling or fixing so i'll let the pictures speak for themselves.. for now (speak a little louder eh? 8D )
you may be here for a while :-"
... huh i guess i should have resized and edited some pictures but ah well fix later mayhaps yeh ok
lets start.. at the airport
...heh we are happy
ahhh
david seems to know that the airplane ride is going to be hell...
hours upon hours and finally crossing the date line still... couple more hours..
I did not sleep at all. Did strange things like homework and watch The Producers and watch people watch The Producers way too many times....
are we there yet?
nah way, yah way?
hmm... :-"
yes..! thats mr. seel or seal, the other sensei 8D
"please do not put garbage on the trash"
waiting upon the shinkansen... bullet train... oh man, what sort of jobs can all these suited businesspeople have?
david and i thought it was interesting at whatever so time it was under jet lag, still not a wink of sleep...
another long wait in cushioned seat with fold out tray tables, ah
at least they got some sleep
kyoto! the crosswalks around this area have SUCH COOL sounds as you cross. its very mournful and somber, and creepy, like in lavendar town in pokemon. i dont care if i spelled lavender wrong. death music
first thing in room look for, restroom, tiny, sad for guys
outside hotel window
staring at what?
is it a minigolf course?
a cemetary
sensei let us loose and warned us to come back before 8:00 or so so we could head out
J-3 visits some Kyoto temple, maria is tipsy
there had to be at least one picture of public tolietry hem hem
tim our model
I wish everymorning I could wake up and walk to school seeing random temples and shrines every morning and afternoon, we would have stalked a kid to school just to visit but we were running out of time
the senseis call meeting
and we head to the train station, but first, up
i hate stairs. see why later.
train station full of stuff, stores and resteraunts and down in the subway system there is a fairly large sized mall, and i didnt buy a single thing (...)
obviously very happy and gay! :)
archery tournaments were held here, shot down huge hall here, crazy amazing feet but wont get what i mean unless actually see walk down hall, i would think the same
along outside...
we have to write in journals lest we forget, is semirequired
if you dont do it youre a pansy sorry
lots of walking to reach...
this utsukushisa yeah i do wish i could install japanese font on laptop (all computers in this household)
taking a picture of seal taking a picture of tim posing frooffly
the senseis were trying to tape an informational video about buddhism but everytime hurley would want to try again because of a minor mistake or forget to look and point picturesquely or the helicopter would conviently interject multiple almost perfect takes, it was fun to watch
time flies and its day three? and 1/2 of J-3 goes to the ramen shop down the alley with the magic slide door
always on a train or walking
had many small shrines and tori and TOO MANY stairs, set on side of mountain
keep on walkin' fools
cute kids that we ended up seeing again all over the place, hey look gaijin! :'D
herroooooow!
so at the beginning of our hike and we were taking a breather near this resteraunt and there was this drunk guy taking swigs and with some empty bottles nearby and joking with the little kids but when we made our trip down and back to the resteraunt for lunch we saw him totally knocked out and lying on this bench... lmao
how the heck did he get up there and how the hell was he going to get down? /:<
foooooood
HEHE
run bennettt runnn DDD:
a series of blurry pictures
at huge home of ginormous buddha, if you crawl and fit through hole in this pillar here your path to enlightenment is cut in half!
kevin attempts!
and kevin quickly suceeds!
I guess to speed your path to enlightenment one must be not bulky, semi flexible, and have initiative. ironic ;)
lmao :9
we return
kevin with his ukelele and christina with her flute have midnight jam outside, wishing again i could still play violin
time has passed, on our way to izumo to meet homestay
and from here on i have very few pictures b.c. i got distracted and lazy and too into just living, battery die lots no recharge
....LSH
private school excel in arts and basketball, uniforms...
hanging wit english class that seemed very embarassed of us being there, SILLY KIDS. I learned everyone likes baseball.
board game, "are you an alien?"
naginata
he was complimented on his natural abilities, 8D
it stormed our first day there did i mention?
cheater...
what i remember, biting cold but under massive sheets or on heated mat toasty warm
plus very clean room
from here on out i get in a bad way (mood) b.c. of anticipated swimming everyone goes on except me
i had trouble
so instead of swimming i drag along all the chaperones except the old japanese men to a botanical garden, for grandmas
three strapping fairly young men walking slowly about appreciating nature... i felt bad. though seal tried to make me feel better i still felt bad. the sky cleared up very nicely though
lunch wit the mayor xD;;;
to tea ceremonize
let it commense! guy was irish had accent v. nice to listen too x)
tea.. tasty...
...i realized he looks alot like spike from... cowboy bebop.. yeah?
i go home and feel better
they take me to small mall, meet friends
glasses guy i like, funny, sister tells me he speaks english pretty well (only one among shop), tried to speak english fun and funny
glasses guy and nice girl i also liked fit me into
kimono i try not laugh right now, i pick by closing eyes and spinning
lollllll uhggg i can barely stand ittttt
got couple trinkets and free fan from glasses guy
home, video game that freaked me out, dinner, tea
mom
bad pictures, had a limp, really cute and funny, KINDA LIKE KIM'S MOM EXCEPT not vietnamese but that other asian decent
giraffes by lighthouse, oh patrick wolf with me everywhere ahem
to the lighthouse my friend 8D
my last half assed picture b.c. was sad to go, mom and satsuki cried, was surprised at emotion so i to almost watered up, chewed violently on apple candy
i think we went to this mall... before going home? i forget but all i remember was that i found the record store too late. D:
anyway, the j-3 guys minus david and steven who are off gallivanting somewhere looking for us who are here.
LOL UHG
heading home, break time
no tips at all except some random things we slipped into his case :-"
THE ABRUPT END
eye soreeeeeeeeee have a bandaid hokay
currently am half almost back yey summer break finally got off last friday, yayy aoa sf summer school thing tues, fri, will be fun--taking animation and figure drawing mhmm... :)