Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Shirotori Gardens



This was one of our field trips to explore the city before school started, so once again...a little late. Let me just put this out there---the worst field trip I've ever been on lol. Throughout this whole thing everyone kept wondering why anyone would ever think we would enjoy this type of torture...Here we go:

We went to the Shirotori Gardens. It has a very traditional vibe and is serene and beautiful. At first glance it seemed like a good place to be.

Plus, we could take pictures so...I was sold. Then, after they lure you in, the old people take over and give you a tour...the tour of immense pain and eventual death. First, we went over this cool looking bridge. It crossed over a big lake.It's all nice and everything until...you hear this churning sound; it chills the blood. You have to figure out where it's coming from so you look down into the water and you see billions of the ugliest, biggest fish ever.
















Yeah, it's the bridge of death.

They are jumping all over one another to get the food that the visitors are throwing to them. I'm shivering now because that's how disgusting it was. Not only that, we spent ten frickin minutes on this mother truckin bridge so half of the time I was steadfastly not watching it, but I could hear it. Then I started to lose my resoluteness and I had to look. It was like a car crash, or lookin at a fat p
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erson's rolls--mortified, but I can't help but look.


Does anyone look like they're paying attention?

We finally left the bridge and started walking around the Gardens with the tour guide. lol this guide, actually all of them, were like 90yrs old. No matter what happened to us, he kept going on and on like nothing happened...totally oblivious. This is where the real torture started. As we started walking around, we were exposed to a never ending onslaught of ka aka mosquitoes. It's frickin hot and we are near the water so for the rest of our hour long tour, we have to repeatedly spray ourselves w/ bug spray (which didn't work) and/or smack them onto each other. I watched my tutor, Rika, to see what she did, being a native Japanese person and all and b/c she had a skirt and heels on while we're trekking through a forest. As I watched her, she smashed at least 15 ka and had blood all over her legs and hands. Everyone was in the same exact boat. Thank goodness I had pants on, but I still got bit alot.















So throughout this 1hr long tour, we stop, walk, stop...while battling mosquitoes and trying to translate Japanese b/c that's all our 90yr old tour guides could speak. And if you were close to the lake, the koi (carp) would follow you because they thought you had food. Killer nasty koi, mosquitoes, and rambling old guys--great trip or what? lol I think my brain exploded, that's how bad it was.


This shows my dynamic picture taking skillz...that killz lol


That's right. Smile through the pain.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

omg comment

Anonymous said...

YOU ARE SILLY.
How's school? It's busy here...
I am considering going abroad for a year in Japan next year :O

P.S. I don't have envelopes D: no letters until then :(