Today was our much awaited first free day during the program. After a quick meeting, with a diminishing few of our conspirators from last night we decided to head to the so-called romantic train that goes between Kameoka and Saga Arashiyama that we have seen so many times from the main train line that goes [...]
Today our group visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. A few of us took a walk to see where the bomb hit. It turns out, our hotel was only a few hundred yards away from hypercenter, the place where the bomb would have hit the ground if it wasn’t an air burst. Of course you [...]
Sorry for no posts in a while. I’ve got a lot of stuff ready to go up but no usable internet connection. I am alive and doing well (if a little footsore). Keep watching the site for a ton of new updates. Take care!
Today I have decided to take up the challenge of packing lightly, with my laptop of course. For this trip I’m just taking only just what I’m going to wear the entire trip. If it works out then I’ll take less and less and just wash what I need. I eventually just want to get [...]
Toji flea market located in the courtyard of a Buddhist temple was today’s destination. It has been held the 21st day of every month for over 600 years. They have over a thousand stalls there selling everything from food to clothes to antiques to just plain junk. At first, I didn’t buy a lot of [...]
Our group has been very lucky in set of experiences we will have in Japan. We have had two very unique ones recently. Last night at 11:45 PM, there was an earthquake centered on Kameoka. It ranked a 2 out of 7 on the Japanese earthquake scale. A couple of the members in the group [...]
Today we said goodbye to our homestay families. Mine sent me off with a breakfast of curry and nan bread, a surprise for me but very tasty. Sumiko took me to the train station to meet the rest of the group. Ioku was there as well to send us off. Dr. Stapp conspired with us [...]