{"id":899,"date":"2010-07-31T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=899"},"modified":"2013-04-01T08:32:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:32:28","slug":"memoirs-of-a-%e5%ad%a6%e7%94%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/2010\/07\/31\/memoirs-of-a-%e5%ad%a6%e7%94%9f\/","title":{"rendered":"Memoirs of a \u5b66\u751f"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you seen the movie Memoirs of a Geisha?\u00a0 If you haven’t, I recommend the movie.\u00a0 If you have, then the first couple of pictures may look familiar.\u00a0 This is at the Inari Shrine in the South East end of Kyoto.\u00a0 It was amazing to see the long walk ways of posts with Kanji written on each one.\u00a0 The Inari shrine is dedicated to the fox god.\u00a0 And has many festivals held at that location.\u00a0 There were a lot of other tourists at the site, it was very difficult to capture pictures of walkways with no people walking through it.\u00a0 The only down side of seeing these beautiful walkways were the mosquitoes.\u00a0 They were honestly having a blood fest with me.\u00a0 It was like I was made of sugar to them.\u00a0 By the time we were walking down, I honestly looked like I had chicken pox all over my legs.\u00a0 But it was worth it because I loved Memoirs of a Geisha and I always wanted to visit a shrine like they showed in the movie with the little girl running through the walk ways.<\/p>\n

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The next couple of pictures are from my school.\u00a0 I went on an adventure because the Kyoto Institute of Art and Design is built on a hill.\u00a0 Even though there is a hike up the stairs every day, the view is definitely worth it.\u00a0 They have a patio like structure that is right next to a forest like area.\u00a0 It is very green.\u00a0 Kyoto in general is a very green environment, both physically and economy wise. And at the entrance after the hike up the stairs, there this really cool abstract art that is in the middle of a pool of water that looks like a china wall, with the water looking like it\u75f4 falling off at the edge.<\/div>\n
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My first local festival was definitely really interesting.\u00a0 In the town of Haradani, there is a monthly festival where they celebrate their religion and fortune and write their hopes for the future.\u00a0 The next picture is me standing in front of the main shrine and the jars behind me are full of sake, which is meant for good luck with the spirits.\u00a0 Sake is the traditional alcoholic drink the Japanese have had around for centuries; it is like a rice wine for them.\u00a0 The picture on the right is the larger picture of the whole shrine.\u00a0 The sake jars are to the left of the bigger picture.<\/div>\n
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\nThe next couple of pictures\u00a0are my host parents and\u00a0they are\u00a0bomb.\u00a0 My host family actually in general is pretty sweet.\u00a0 The parents speak a little English but the two sons are learning English and I can converse with them.\u00a0 But we usually meet half way and speak half English and half Japanese so our conversations can last longer.\u00a0 My host mom’s name is Keiko and she is an Elementary school teacher.\u00a0 The father is also an elementary school teacher but for disabled kids, which I thought was pretty great.\u00a0 The eldest son is 21 and is on his last year of college at Osaka University.\u00a0 The middle child is a girl she\u3000i\uff53 19 and also at Osaka University.\u00a0 The youngest is 16 and in high school.\u00a0 All their kids play Judo and the eldest son and daughter are undefeated in Kyoto.\u00a0 They\u2019\uff52e raining champs.\u00a0 The only daughter is very sports orientated, she started Judo when she was young and picked up diving and sumo wrestling.\u00a0 Keiko-san is the person I see the most out of the family because she is always cooking and in the kitchen when I come home from school.\u00a0 The father is pretty cool too; he is into ball room dancing which I thought was awesome because I took ball room dancing in high school.\u00a0 So, he took me to one of his dance lessons and it was super fun because I got to dance the waltz, tango, rumba, jitter bug and the cha cha.\u00a0\u00a0 The guy farthest to the left standing with the black t-shirt is my host dad.\u00a0 The rest were other dancers.\u00a0 The boy on the bottom right corner with a white t-shirt and glasses is the youngest son of Keiko-san and Soya-san.<\/p>\n

Even though the weather is about a 100 degrees average, I really am enjoying touring around Kyoto, I am finding so many cool things and interesting people.\u00a0\u00a0 I definitely want to come here again, possibly when the weather isn\u2019\uff54 out to get me.\u3000<\/p>\n

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