soooo... Its Nikko, not nikko. if you pronounce this wrong, no one will have any idea what the hell you are talking about. its a city name, yet pronunciation is so important that a slight emphasis on a different vowel means two of 'something' no one knows what, but two of 'something'. why the heck cant the japanese just realize that i am trying to say the city and not two of something? o well...
thursday my ffriend chrissy and I travelled to nikko, apparently the setting of a famous novel called Shogun, which ive never heard of. Nikko is know around japan for its beautiful autumn leaves, and probably the most extravagant temples in the country. I will say they are amazing. bright reds blues and yellows that i havent seen in anyother temple or shrine. very intricate as well. The temple is actually the 'suppossed' site of the original monkeys in the position of see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil. I saw the carvings which are over 400 yrs old, so its hard to dispute, but those monkeys are so popular around the world, that its hard to believe that i actually saw the originals.
chrissy and i had a great time, saw the fall foliage, got out of the city, and saw the japanese country side, it was a long day, but well worth it. in one of the temples the japanese were offering sake to one of the gods of the temple. the sake is also given to visitors who want to cleanse their souls. lets just say im now cleansed. heh. free sake.
for dinner/lunch we ate at an awesome yakitori place. for 800 yen we dined on skewered chicken and meatballs, rice, and yakisoba. yum yum yum. the woman also spoke broken english so that helped.
this week i am going to try and catch the autumnal festival at the meiji shrine. ive read that there is an archery tourney there n wednesday. and on thurday im going to try tsukiji again, maybe ill have better luck.
in the case of accommadation... i might have found anopther palce to live. its in tokyo, but the rent is 150 less a month and their are many people living there, meaning more contact with hopefully cleaner individuals.
o and i have finally broken the NOVA sacred rule of not hanging out with students. one of my students saw me at the station last nioght and we wnet for a few beers. nice guy, and i have a feeling we will hang out again.
time is running short so ill end here. take care all and PLEASE vote.
VOTE. VOTE. VOTE! but not for bush.
scotto san
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Scott, did you get my email about my firstborn? Well, it's growing inside of my wife. Hey, everybody else who reads this, Meghan is growing a baby inside of her. It's totally cool. That is all. -Cox
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