more pics from the magic castle

Sugoi (awesome/amazing)!

Later during orientation week, we had the chance to take a field trip… slash we were automatically signed up for it (which was a good thing). We went to some volcanically heated rivers- which had a hot spring for your feet- SWEET, and some amazingly beautiful nature… it felt like I was in a scene from Jurassic park, I kept expecting to see some pterodactyl flying down the gorge, or some long neck grazing in the background ☺.
Then we went to this “magic trick castle”- which I will let the pictures speak for themselves… just know, it was the craziest castle I’ve ever been in (despite the fact that I haven’t exactly been in a ton of castles ;). There were optical illusions, and amazing picture opportunities! Anyway, it also had some of those coin machines… which of course resulted in matching pokemon watches for everyone… sigh. Anyway, enjoy the pictures!

kitinai!!!

Sept 1
Kitinai- dirty… guess how I learned what this word meant! Shunsuke (roommate) comes out of the bathroom, and he’s learning English, and I’m learning Japanese… so he comes out and says, “problem”! “flooding”! turns out our drain was blocked with hair and moldy gunk… which we then spent the next 10-bonding filled minutes cleaning and laughing over. Gross. So, I learned, “kitinai”, and he learned “moldy”, and “crap”!