A picture is worth a thousand words… but I don’t have the energy to photograph everything, and Dave and Andrew are doing a pretty good job anyways. It’s hard to find time to upload thousands of MB of pictures, but I can write anytime anywhere, and upload in a moment. Somehow writing is more fun anyways… probably because I don’t have to look at my clumsy mug.
It’s really too bad that I didn’t get to writing until now… one week into our trip. At this point… the novelty of everything is wearing off, although we’re still very much entrenched in the awesomeness of Japan. Questions have been answered… and the answer to the first one is, YES.
Yes… I definitely could live here.
That’s not to say everything is perfect… but everything is fine enough.
Somehow I haven’t smashed my noggin once in the past week.
I’m sure however… I’m bound too sometimes soon, and what follows will be a fit of Canadian proportion. Or maybe I’ll just bust a hole in the door frame, car roof, or train ceiling. I still can’t get over walls of paper. Even if they aren’t paper… they’re thin enough that I feel like I can run through them.
Where we at? What’s going on?
We pretty much spent the first week in Kyoto, with a night in Osaka, and day trips to Nara and Kobe. Our tourist activities have pretty much been seeing temples and shrines etc. I think this is really sweet… and I’m not sick of it yet. Walking around shopping districts however… gets tiring fast.
Somehow… in a land smaller than the state of California, containing over four times the population of Canada, I have yet to feel annoyed and overwhelmed with people. Politeness is something here that I only imagined possible is theory. This is a sort of utopia. People actually line up to get on buses and trains. On escalators, relaxed people stand on one side to make room for those who are in a hurry. Everywhere you go… “welcome” “thank you” “please”.
No goons and hooligans…
… yet.
However… somehow… something is missing…
Once and a while… we see signs of something underneath all this politeness… but I’ll write about that later.
In the meantime… I miss my girl. We moved to Nagoya today… which means she’s only an hour away. Looking forward to seeing her in 6 days.
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