One Month!!

Today marks the day that I have been in Japan for a whole month (arrived on August 30th, it is now September 30th)! I've already done many things and met many people within this short amount of time, although it feels like I have spent a very long time here. October is approaching within the next few hours and with October I hope to be seeing a lovely display of color changing leaves and whatnot.

This will be relatively short as I decided to wait until late to write this and it is already six minutes past my bedtime so I'll cut the rants and just update.

Like the previous weekend and week, this last week was full and eventful. I actually can't seem to remember what happened last week besides classes. I did go to Kyoto with my Fine Arts Class, something I believe I talked about in my last blog update. After that, I went back to Kyoto with my exchange group on Saturday. This time we did traditional painting? It was done with stencils, everyone grabbed a pattern and most got handkerchiefs, and then colored it in. They use it to make the beautiful patterns on kimono and fans and other items. Afterwards we went to Kiyomizu temple, saw many meiko (geisha in training), and took lots of photos. It was fantastic.

Sunday I went to pottery again with my host mother and made some more fugly pottery animals. It was my second attempt. Of course, it is Monday and this time there isn't a National Holiday so classes we went. I went to Umeda with a few friends and we hit up a manga café.

As I have terribly slacked on this week's and last week's blog updates, I will try to make my next update a little more fruitful!

~Until Next Time