Gion Matsuri (gion festival) is one of the biggest festivals in japan. all of the big floats are put together with just rope and no nails/screws etc. I went the night before the festival to check out all the action. It was really cool. Lots of people. Hot weather.. I love summer.
My friend Kurt was hitchhiking around Japan and one day I decided to join him on a day trip to Nagoya. We took the train to Nara then got on another one thinking it would bring us a little closer to Nagoya but we were wrong and we got lost. But these two fine gentleman gave us a ride (in the opposite direction.. in fact right back to kyoto where we started...) They were funny. The driver was half japanese half mexican (the first mexican I saw in Japan) and his car was totally decked out with mexican flags and lots of stuff to make your car fast and a lot of money was prob wasted on his car. The air con was broken and so was their english...
After we got out of their car we headed to the river where we sat and wrote a message in a bottle (no reply yet..) and ate dinner and enjoyed the beautiful day. After we were done swimming and hanging out we found these japanese school kids sitting in the island in the middle of the river. We went over to see what they were doing and they were getting shit faced. We started partying with them but all they were drinking sake. sake is the most fucked up type of alcohol. right after you drink it your brain feels like someone is hitting it with a baseball bat. So i developed a great technique where you put the bottle to your lips but you do not open your lips.. you just are a big poser. but it works for me. So when I was playing it cool everyone else was chugging the sake.. Including my friend kurt who got REALLY wasted and who I ended up having to take care of..but yea. things got really crazy that night.. one kid kept telling everyone how small his penis was and then ended up just taking off his pants and really showing us.. I will leave those photos out of this.
Thankfully Hannah new of a wonderful place two swim in these hot hot hot hot hothot days in kyoto. 25 min away from downtown kyoto you end up in this magical place perfect for swimming and sunbathing and pretending you are in the movie Jurassic Park. I think we ended up going to this spot, Hozukyo, maybe 5 or 6 times. It was incredible!
I wish I had a better jump pose!
Hannah and Hamish tired after a good day at the river
Pierre with some kawaii (cute) girls at the river
Here are some girls in my rozome (wax dyeing) class. They are first year students and they screen printed fabric for Yukatas when I was in the second year students class.
This was from my sayonara party that my teachers put on for me. One of my teachers caught all the fish. It was tasty but I just think fish kinda taste weird sometimes.. so I just ate all the veggies instead.
A scary/weird place in Osaka
La Foret department store in Tokyot. By far the coolest clothes I saw in Tokyo.
A cute little cafe I Went to down cat street in Tokyo in Harajuku.
Tokyo had some really weird adds. I loved them
um. YES PLEASE
This just looked so cool.
tokyo
In tokyo I went to the Mori Arts Center in Roppongi Hills and they had this amazing exhibition.
This is done by an artist named Yoshioka Tokujin. they were feathers and every few minutes a fan went off and the feathers blew everywhere. It was supposed to look like snow. It did and it was absolutely beautiful
/This is an Artist named Shinoda Taro. IT was so cool! he made paper to mimic what it would be like for a seal to pop his cute little head out of the water and see the world above. You walk into this room crouching down and when you pop your head out of a little hole and peep the whole seen. It was so cool and creative.
View from gallery
Tsukiji Fish market. the most horrible place on earth. I wish I never went to this place..
Tango! my school has a beach house in Tango about 5 hrs bus ride north from kyoto. It was exactly what I needed. Swim all day and eat good food. The other international students cooked lunch and dinner every day. The other students are from Taiwan,Thailand, Korea and China. They did not want to swim and if they did they swam in their clothes. I felt really uncomfortable being in my bathing suit in front of them cause they just stare. The only down side was that it was about 80 degrees at night and there was now air con and it was cooler outside but I got attacked by mosquitos. I have so many bug bites still that one could do connect the dots all over my lower half of my body.
Just a new friend of mine
Hanabi (fireworks)
Someone had a pet monkey named tomato.
This man was walking down the beach when we first got there and started talking to us and told us he played the flute and that he would come back with it and play for us. Two hours or so later he came back with his flute and played. He was a funny man.
The day after I got home from my trip to Tango a few of my classmates gave me a goodbye party. It was so cute. I cried. so hard. And some of them gave me gifts. I love Japan.
Neal Chillin. They brought this pool and filled it with drinks. It was so hot that all the ice melted and we all enjoyed warm drinks.
This is a cake one of my friends made. She said it was cheesecake but I don't know if I believe that. IT was good though. It had chocolate and mangos in it. It was so good
This would be great if my eyes were open
splashing around in the pool
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