March 04, 2006
Test Entry
There may be a few typos when I write, but i will try and catch them.
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February 11, 2006
Grahaeme's Trip To Mihara
I sit behind a Social Studies teacher, Mr Kato, who is into walking pilgrimages all the time. He puts on his big old sun hat and goes walking from temple to temple. To keep track of how well he's doing, he wears a step counter to work. He's pretty serious about his walking. But the thing is that as he visits temples along the way, he takes a zillion photos and collects stamps in a little book he keeps. So this last weekend he invited me out to a temple with him in Mihara. It was up in the m
ountains and there's been a cold snap recently, so it was a little chilly; but it was really nice. So Kato-sensei's book, like one of my sketchbooks but with a nicer cover and you collect stamps in it. When you visit a temple you can pay 300yen and the local priest/monk will write the temple's god name in lovely calligraphy. So he got a book for me that I have now used and when we visited the temple we got this done. (see picture to the right) Then we hit the Onsen, which was a salt water Onsen from the ocean and an all you can eat buffet. The view from the onsen is really nice looking out over the inland sea. You can watch the ships roll in and out of port, or just watch a little fisherman roll on the waves. We went to one other temple in Onomichi, which is a small city just 20 minutes away from Fukuyama. The temple we visited there was up on top of a hill, so we drove up and walked down. On the way home we stopped for a coffee in a little coffee shop on top pf the hill. It's sort of a mountain, but not really.
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