May 1 2010
So yesterday we had our first day of traveling around Kyoto. We had a lesson the first part and then went to a lot of different places. We started by going to Shimogamo Jinja. It's a very famous shrine dedicated to the gods for allowing the rivers in Kyoto to be joined (they’re routed one of the two main rivers in Kyoto back in 800ish AD and this was the place where the two rivers met.) it's a huge Shinto shrine that has numerous buildings inside it, as well as the path to the sacred mori (forest). While we were here there were two Shinto weddings taking place. It was very interesting to see them to say the least.
After that shrine we headed to the temple of 1001 buddhas. I went there with Mom and Dad when they came and picked me up but that time we were rushed so this time since we had all the time in the world, it was nice to really study and look deeper into everything.
After that we went to the old red light district…there wasn't much there (course it was 4 in the afternoon…) .
The thing was everyone had an opinion on what we should do and no one was looking out for anyone else. I was so annoyed because no one was thinking accountability. Its funny but I’m used to watching out for others. I guess the army has a way of doing that. Anyways I suggested to Dr. Lawrence that we had some type of accountability for where people were. I feel like I have to do a lot of the motivating to get decisions made. No one wanted to research getting into the Imperial Palace so guess who got it. And the other thing we were trying to get lunch and couldn't decide on anything and everyone was starving/ complaining. So finally we decided to meet up in an hour and go get whatever we wanted. That worked out pretty well. I guess its something we’ll have to work on.
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