Friday, May 16, 2008
Homework
Making our way to and from tourist spots has brought about many different realizations and a few minor hazards. A great part of the crowding at these sites comes from the hoardes of Japanese school children who are also touring famous spots. They are often `spirited` bunches, seldom rude, and often curious about the foreigners. The braver ones say hello. The ones with homework march right up to us in a big group and proceed through a script in one of their workbooks. So far, we`ve been the subject of four such assignments. We`ve given signatures, peace messages, messages to Junior High Students, and provided our thoughts on Japanese cities, food, and culture. In exchange, we`ve received a few nice hand-drawn student `name cards` and had a few nice group photos with the school kids.
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Oh. My. God. That is so freakin' cute!!!! I must see these pictures and little souvenirs from the children!
Oh, and Leanna wants to know if you've stayed in a love hotel yet, or if you plan to. She also mentioned something about a cubicle hotel, I think it was?
You`ll probably be quite familiar with the type of souvenir from the kids, but it`s still pretty cute. We are getting the picture taker to take a picture with our own camera in addition to theirs.
You can let Leanna know that we have no plans on staying in the capsule hotels. Doesn`t really appeal. And, neither the capsule ones nor the love hotels have been very widely advertised or noticeable (except in Hiroshima where some of the love hotels were noted on one of the maps of the city).
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