JAPAN!!

Greetings fellow earthlings,

Guess what?

I’ve been to Japan the past two weeks!! So I’m just going to blither on about that, ‘kay?

First up we went to Osaka, which was really cool, especially the subway, even though our whole group stacked every time the train a) started moving b) turned a corner or c) stopped. It was funny though.

We went to Osaka Castle, which was a tad dull, coz it was set up as a museum, so it was like, all in Japanese. I mean I can speak Japanese (kinda), but no where near that well and certainly not with that much kanji. There were some really pretty pictures, though.

We had KFC for dinner the second night, just to experience Japanese food (cough cough) although my friend said her Twister had beans in it, so there you go.

Next day we went to Kyoto, where we saw Kinkakuji temple (AKA the Golden Pavilion) which was absolutely gorgeous, and Kiyomizu temple which was really cool, but not as pretty.

After that we went to Nara for the day, where we saw the Toudaji temple, which had the HUGEST gold Buddha. Then we went on the bullet train to Tokyo (it didn’t feel nearly as fast as it was.) where we went to Akihabara where there was this huge electronics store. My friends and I discovered the true meaning of sardines in a can inside the lift. I could scarcely breathe, and it’s no joke trying to get out from the back, let me tell you that.

Next day was Tokyo Disneyland, which was awesome! We had so much fun and I bought heaps of stuff for everyone I know, especially me!!! We missed one show not once but twice, coz it was full, and enjoyed the fact that every thing was in English most of the time.

The haunted mansion was totally lame, and the flume was so fun- think four girls singing along to zip-a-dee-doo-dah, which was playing in the back ground, in the wrong language, at the top of their lungs , with four Japanese guys in the same boat laughing at them. Very funny.

Next day we went to Harajuku, which was scary. As one of my friends put it, all the girls (and guys pretending to be girls) seemed to be trying to out scare one another. Apparently that’s where all the Japanese girls in Gwen Stefani’s video clips are from, but the people actually there were way creepier than them.

After Harajuku we went to Yokosuka, where we did homestay for a week. That school was incredible. It was like three stories and brand new. It left my fifteen year old school, with about twenty stairs total in the entire place, in the dust.

Homestay was so fun- my family was totally nice, only thing was they spoke English to me the whole time, so I couldn’t practice, just think I know how to say that in Japanese. we slept on tatami mats and everything, I was hopeless though, and would get halfway across the mat before I’d remember to take off my slippers.

Anyways, I’m home now, after the best two weeks ever. Sooooo much fun.

OMG, I luv this song- The Prayer by Anthony Callea. My mum cried when he sung this on Oz Idol. Seriously.

I’d better go now, I don’t want anyone thinking I’m actually practising my touch typing!!

Bye!