It rained again but it was another great day! I am finally figuring out how the train system works! It is just confusing to me because I have never used public transportation before and here everything is in Japanese characters, but the location will flash up in English every once in a while!
Today we headed to Nara. Nara is historically the first capitol of Japan, but it was only the capital for a few months. Every time the emperor died they would change the capitol. The big get-up in Nara is that there are deer everywhere. They aren't afraid of people at all and they just roam freely. You can buy little cookie type things and feed them. I loved this and went around chasing and petting deer!
We visited a Buddhist temple area. There are lots of smaller ancient looking buildings then a HUGE temple. To get inside we climbed the stairs and passed by a huge urn of incense (the first stage of enlightenment). The temple was enormous and inside it was a gigantic bronze Buddha. It was overwhelming looking at it. Inside the temple were other enormous statues and various sacred elements. There were lots of schoolchildren on field trips there and some of them wanted to get pictures with us! It was very amusing!
After that we headed back to the station. Brenda, Taylor and I ran around the Kyoto station for about an hour in search of this Ice Cream place! The Kyoto station is humongous and it is so easy to get lost! We finally found a good ice cream place and it was delicious! It was also the hardest I have laughed the whole trip! I am going to get dinner in a little bit and we start meeting for class tomorrow.
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