Here in Japan we have just had our so-called Golden Week, which at Ritsumeikan equals 3 days without school more or less strategically chosen to be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Which means that if you want a real holiday you have to skip school on Monday or Friday.. But don't get overly excited about your suddenly big amount of freedom: The classes you've lost will be given back to you cause Ristumeikan has Saturday-classes to make up for the Golden Week.! Woho!
Well, to be honest I did not do much during the Golden Week anyway. I was planning to go studying in the library at school, but since it was closed I ended up in the basement of one of the other buildings where they rarely close before 22:00 anyway. Beside going shopping one evening that is pretty much all I did during my Golden Week. But hey, I did a lot of traveling in February/March so I'm not going to complain. Besides I'm going to Tokyo this upcoming weekend!
On Saturday I did however do a little bit of sightseeing. I even had a personal guide with me, mr. Kazu, who wanted a chance to practice his English.
After meeting him in the city centre we strolled down to the Heian Jingu shrine, which I had been to once before during the
student festival back in October (can't believe it has been over half a year..!!)
At that time it was evening though, so I didn't see much of the temple itself.
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| The gate to Heian Jingu |
The weather was perfect - It feels like a Norwegian summer here now - so it was a good day for sightseeing.
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| View from a bridge towards the mountains in the east. |
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| The Oten-mon Gate () |
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| Heian Jingu: Daigoku-den (大極殿) |
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| むすび木！ |
Beside the nice buildings Heian Jingu also has a pretty large garden. Last time I went here we never went to this part of the shrine, in fact I did not even know that there was such a big garden hidden behind the buildings.. Anyway, here are some of the pictures I took
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| A Japanese family feeding the ducks |
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| かわいい〜 |
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| Picture of Taiheikaku (泰平閣). |
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| Everything is nice and peaceful. |
Eg får så lyst å reise til Japan av å se på bildene dine =)
ReplyDeleteDet høres bra ut, fint hvis jeg greier å friste deg til å komme på besøk x) hehe..
ReplyDeleteJeg har søkt på master her nede da, så det er en viss mulighet for at jeg blir her lengre enn antatt.. :p
Aha!! Så spennende! Hvilken master? Då e det kanskje håp en gang i fremtiden. Eg har for tiden absolutt ikke råd =p
ReplyDeleteJeg har søkt på et såkalt duel master program faktisk, nå er det på langt nær sikkert at jeg kommer inn da, men det er sånn at man tar 2 mastergrader på to år.
ReplyDeleteDen jeg søker på i utgangspunktet er Internasjonale Relasjoner. Nr 2 kommer litt an på om jeg kommer inn på 1stevalget eller andrevalget (eller om jeg kommer inn i det hele tatt selvfølgelig), men det er sannsynligvis i Utviklingsstudier. Hvis jeg kommer inn på dobbel-master programmet blir det først et år i Japan, og så et år i Nederland eller Spania alt ettersom..
Og hvis jeg ikke kommer inn på dobbel-masteren blir det 1 master på 2 år her i Japan:p. Men hvis jeg ikke kommer inn på noen av delene er jeg litt usikker på hva jeg skal ta meg til for å være helt ærlig. Haha..
Yen (japansk valutta) er på vei ned for øyeblikket, så om ikke annet blir det billigere å være norsk i Japan i tiden fremover;) flybilletten er jo på den andre siden litt kostbar da:-/