yamaonna

and now its time for more exciting adventures with michele….

stop jumping up and down already

well, first of all, a bit of house cleaning, really.  My family wants to know what my room is like, so heres a couple of pics –

very basic as you can see, bed, desk and closet, but enough, and pretty spacious for japan   got a huge map of sendai on my wall, with a couple of postcards that im collecting.  did you know you can buy blu-tak at loft?  Imported from AU of course….

So this weeks holidays were some state holiday and childrens day, but we had 3 days off in total.  Tuesday was spent on homework and washing, wednesday I did some exploring of the cbd, and no my wallet wasnt ‘much’ lighter after that.  Sendai is truly a beautiful city, and they certainly arnt lying when they call it the city of trees.  there are the main avenues in town that are lined with these huge trees, and once of them you can even walk down the middle of the road on a pedestrian walkway! check out the city website – http://www.city.sendai.jp/kankyou/toshisuishin/pamph-e/index.html  it was a nice day, but i must have had a sign stuck to me saying ‘Talk to Me!’ cause so many people stopped me to chat….  and i only knew one of them…..

Speaking of, the dorm-mother here has taken a real shining to me and keeps showering me with food!    she’s soooo nice! (give me food and i will love you too!)

Yesterday I decided to get up early and go to Yamagata prefecture.  after getting up i finally made the 11 o’clock train……. yeah, kind not so early…  but it didnt affect my day much.  I went to a place called Yamadera (mountain temple) where there were a heap of shrines and temples built on a mountain….  I got there and realized, I must like torturing my self, cause I keep going places where I have to climb stairs….  to give you an example, this is the view from one of the temples –

yep, see those houses down there???  I climbed all that and higher.  its no wonder my legs are still hurting…. but it was pretty.  here’s some of the buildings –

and for some reason japanese people like to take there dogs on hikes….  when the stairs are taller than the dog…..  crazy….

I headed a little further on to Yamagata city, but was very disapointed with that.  But I suppose finding my local mister donuts that afternoon made up for it   hehe

Today it was back to the grind, but of course tomorrow is the weekend….  Everyone has moved back into the dorm, so its pretty noisy here again.  getting woken up at 5…..  but thats probably the sun, and the fact i take out my ear plugs while Im sleeping.

god forbid i have a husband who snores

RIP SLAO

oh, and Laura, you have permission to kick my butt…..