Blah blah blah, booring

Talk about a dull month. Sorry about the lack of updates. I'm a bit of a lull right now.


So looks like the rainy season has started here in Japan.  Japan is serious about its rainy season. It's really been raining nearly everyday which you can imagine makes a 25 minute bike ride to work annoying. I think the season is over at the end of June...and then it will just get insanely hot with a humidity level of  "Oh my gosh this sucks!"

I've had a horrible tooth ache for the last month or so. Sometimes I can go a whole day without any pain and then there are nights like 2 nights ago in which I seriously wanted to die it was so painful. I'm taking aspirin like its crack. I really don't like putting so much medicine in my body but it's the only thing that helps sometimes. I'm gonna overdose on these things. You heard it here first folks. I need to find a good English speaking dentist soon.

So yeah, sorry. I got nothing fun to talk about. The good news is I'm alive. Then there are those moments when you aren't sure if that's the good or the bad news. ANYWAYS, I should get to bed. Tomorrow is Tuesday which means non stop 2nd year classes at Jr.High which also happen to be the most boring and irritating of the grades. Cheers!

I leave you with freaky Japanese made robot.

Golden Week 2011

For my second Golden Week in Japan I went with a large church group trip by bus to Kobe and Kyoto. During this time the small Gifu Yohan Church group combined with our neighbors the larger Nagoya Yohan Church took a bus to two popular Japanese cities. As I am new to attending the church I met a lot of new people. It's not a terribly long trip to make from Nagoya and the company was entertaining. While it was a fun way to blow an otherwise unplanned day, I wouldn't really recommend visiting both Kobe and Kyoto in only one day. While we did go to a few good places there wasn't really much time to enjoy those places. There is just too much to see and those cities too far apart. In my case I have been to both of the cities before and was mainly going this time to hang out with new people and have something to do. Also I 'm a big fan of Kobe. It would be nice to live there someday.

A view of the Kobe from the harbor.

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Kobe Harbor Land Amusement Park

Kobe China Town ornaments

The main entrance into Kobe China Town

Kyoto

Heian Jingu Shrine

Heian Jingu Shrine

Arashiyama bridge

Dozens of people out in canoes in Arashiyama

A few folks from the group posing in Kyoto