Japan day 1

My first okonomiyaki. :-) we had dinner in a very japanese restaurant. The menu was entirely in japanese and there were no pictures. We had a hard time ordering. Lucky i'm travelling with sy who speaks some japanese so ordering was not so bad. The sashimi was really good. The food was mostly good. I ate my first slice of raw octopus too. And we accidently ordered some almost raw chicken which was kinda tasty but very sinewy and we found it hard to eat so didn't finish it. Am back in the hotel. Resting after a hot shower... Ah... :-)

Japan day 1

I must admit though, we did more eating then sight seeing today. It took us a while to navigate the confusing train system and we were also rather tired. Still the food looks so cool, so we had onigiri, waffles, pizza, dango and this green ice-cream puff, which from kyoto, is really delicious. Later we may go to the food street for dinner. Depending on how tired we are. :-)

Japan day 1

Am back in the hotel room in shin osaka. Today at kyoto, we visited this really cool temple called kiyomizu temple. It's make up entirely of wood and part of the temple sticks out into the air off a cliff. There were loads of people today, not sure why. Aside from the tourists, there were lots of japanese who where there to pray. Some of there japanese girls are really something else. They were wearing these really high heels and were still able to climb the steep hill up to the temple... Wow.

Japan day 1

Am in kyoto now. That's the kyoto tower just outside the train station. We're having a light snack and coffee at a ucc cafe. After this we'll explore the city. Cool. :-)

Japan - day 1 for real

I've landed in kansai airport in osaka. Now on the haruka train to the city. We just exchanged our jr passes for a 7 day rail pass. I'm really excited to be in japan. It's my first time so am super excited. :-)

Japan - day 1 sorta

I'm now at changi airport t3 waiting for friends. I'm finally on leave. So happy. Work has been horrible and stressful so am so so glad to finally get a break. Will be heading to the land of the rising sun on this trip. Will lose 3 japanese lessons for my grammar classes and 2 conversational classes. Am a little worried about the exams in november so have brought my notes with me so i can do some studying if i feel inclined to. Still am so so so happy to take a breadther so not going for classes is fine by me too. :-) K. Going to just rest for a bit. Been a pretty busy day. Later. :-)

Happiness...

You don't need big events and expensive toys to be happy. :-) these last 6 weeks to 2 months have been the busiest i can remember in recent times. It was exhausting. Work was killing me. :-( But yesterday i meet up with friends and spent time at lunch with a good friend. I had really good indian food too. Happy happy happy. :-)