Day Three- Koya and Osaka

Holy geez.


It was freezing. It was uncomfortable. I felt like crap.


I cannot sleep on futon.

We went to a ceremony at 6 AM. We watched the monks chant and then listened to a lecture about... words and how they affect water and rice...?

We walked out to find it snowing.


We had breakfast and then packed up and left.


God.


It was FREEZING.


I had on a sweater, my coat, gloves, and my scarf. Eesh.


We walked with a tour guide from the temple to another temple. We met up with a cameraman.


From TV Asagi.




Asagi is like ABC or CBS. It's huge.



And they filmed us and interviewed us.


Then we took a bus to a cemetary. It's the largest cemetary in Japan.


It was freezing, snowing, and boring. And it was a death trap. If you look into the well and can't see your reflection, you'll die within three years. If you trip on the steps, you'll die within three years.

To make it more interesting, I pretended like it was a videogame, and I designated different events as passing levels.


We did this thing where you have to lift a heavy rock with your palm to a second level inside a box in order to have your wishes come true. Only Tiffany was strong enough to do it. So she's the only one who passed that level. The rest of us used cheat codes to get by.

Then we had lunch (Hurley paid for Marsha's free rice balls with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!) and went to the station. Now we're on the train. I'm writing. Josh is drawing, Janine is reading, Hurley is on his laptip, and everyone else is playing the game we played yesterday.


Today... has kinda sucked.


I tend to be excluded in groups. I try to stay in, but people start to ignore me. I think some people are annoyed with me because I kept hassling them to be quiet at the temple (there are other guests, you guys) but Alex did too, and they're still okay around him.

Sarah has been in a crappy mood around me. She's perfectly fine around everyone else.

Even the room arrangements and partners. Hurley obviously tried hard to put friends together, because everyone else got their best friend. I was the one who had to partner up with someone I didn't know.


It makes me want to cry. I want to go home.






We checked into the hostel and I share a room with Rachel, Tiffany, and Janine. The girls' rooms are much smaller than the guys. In fact, the guys got the rooms we got over the summer. Asher, stay away from my fun memories....!


We immediately left the hostel for Umeda.


When we were walking to the station, I got a very pleasant surprise.


Hurley was arranging to meet up with none other than...


Chris Simpson!



Yes, the anime club president for the past three years, who held the club together for my first two years of high school.


He goes to college in Beppu, I think, but he was on vacation.



Anywho, I told Natsuki and Josh and Jeremy and Janine, and they were incredibly excited. Sarah thought it was stupid.


I led the group to the subway and got us on the right one. x3



We headed over to Hep Five, the mall, and I helped Hurley navigate us through the station. We met up with Chris, who looks EXACTLY THE SAME. xD


I honestly thought Natsuki was going to cry. He was almost hysterical, he was so happy.



I had to find a bag so I went shopping with Sarah, who had to buy a jacket because she didn't bother bringing her's and Hurley didn't want her to get sick. I got a cute bag and removed the strap and attached it to my purse. x3



After shopping, I was dead. I'm sore, there were no places to sit, and I felt like dying. So Lauren (Ms. Uyeshiro), Natsuki, and I walked back to the hostel while everyone else went out to Nanba to eat dinner.



Yeah. I'm exhausted. The part I am looking forward to is tomorrow. Yay, karaoke, yay, MM single.


But after that, I'm ready to leave. It's too tiring, too stressful, too frantic, too many people.