Last Friday, CIEE took us on a trip to Kamakura--the land of buddhas, temples, and tourists. Look, I made a friend!
This was a little guy, and he was friendly, but there was also a behemoth buddha, which everyone trembled in fear of.
(Jay kay or am I?)
Kamakura was a truly beautiful place, and out tour guide was friendly and adorable. If you want to see pictures of the entire trip, plus some video (of the tour guide showing us how to pray, Hiromi getting a fortune, and SAMURAI CANDY, click HERE.)
On Saturday, I woke up late but rushed to meet some friends in Odaiba. I'm not sure what exactly Odaiba is famous for--it's near the beach, and looks fantastic when lit up at night. As far as I can tell, it's a great spot to take a date because you can shop (lot of malls), and get on the ferris wheel at night for some "cozying" up.
New York City doesn't have this many colors!
I couldn't get a steady hand, but this captures just how trippy it was.
When we finally got to Odaiba, we met a large group of CIEE kids for dinner, but quickly split up since we wanted to get on the ferris wheel. Christiex2, Kyle, Jordan, and I all boarded the ferris wheel and it was a fantastical 16 minute ride full of lulz.
(I am not creeping away from Jordan, just the claw he made instead of the traditional Japanese PICTURE PEACE SIGN. Those were the wrong gang signs, Jordan!)
After, we took purikura! Those little sticker pictures. Very azn, no?
You can get them sent straight to your phone via infrared! Japan is amazing. (DO YOU SEE THE CLAW?)
Sunday was fun too--it was Easter so I checked out Christie's church. I met a bunch of awesome people. :D
I leave for class soon! More blog to come: club activities, first days of classes, etc! :D
9 Comments:
hisashiburi indeed >:3
Kamakura looks bangin. I wanna hang with all those Buddhas. And the samurai candy guy of course.
Odaiba is prettttttyyyyyy. I'm so jealous you got on that huge ass ferris wheel. Remember our Six Flags trip? I just wanted to go on the ferris wheel... lol. *Watches everyone ride Batman for the 42342534th time*
lol the claw...everyone looks very... bright. x)
omg the batman had to be one of my favorite ones :D fcck that kingda ka amirite? im sorry, i dont feel like getting raped again kthnx. lololol.
we will ride that ferris wheel together one day, k! ;) or maybe you and celia will? :O
there were some buddhas i couldn't take pictures of. they were BIG AND GOLD. perhaps they were too sacred for peekchurs.
YAY update :)
See, you have so much cool stuff, stop holding it back :D
The Kamakura trip was awesome, those Purikura pics are so crazy! Where'd you get that one taken? In a Taito?
Kamakura was cool, they should have fed us better though haahaha. That purikura was in Odaiba near the ferris wheel. You should go to Odaiba! They have an indoor amusement part! :O
dude the Behmoth Buddha was awesome!!! Odaiba looks beautiful! And yea nyc looks more green and black at night haha maybe a lil yellow with people's lights on. I firmly believe that there should be a colorful ferris wheel everywhere :)
Can't wait to hear about the first day of classes etc...welcome back to the land of homework haha
I mite be really late on this, but i like ur bangs too btw!
You all look great in purikura
eileen its ur dad i was super amazed and very much enjoyed ur blog my princess its very enjoyable and fasinating at the same time i also see a very beutiful pics of my little girl and i see the fun you are having and feel very sad and happy at the same time godbless you and miss u very much keep enjoying ur adventures my little girl and god bless u and have a safe trip my prayers are allways with you
Ahhh you're purikura is amazing! I'm obsessed with those now...I'm actually writing a paper on them HA
EJ
eileen loved those pictures of the gardens and statues and the turtle wich i think should be named michaelangelo however i kinda got jealous of you rubbing that little budda's belly me mad now! just kidding <3 lovefromyour real budda dad miss you loved all your poetry on your blog darling allways thinking about you my little girl keep upthe good workproud of you mua! papa :-)
