2012 Day 11: Navigate ourselves to Kyoto station & Kyoto Activities

Today I cheated on going to Kyoto because my host bro lives in Kyoto he simply
escorted me to the meeting point. It was a little disappointing. Today also I
found out I may have somehow broken my toe. It's a good day to be bullheaded
because even though I am in pain I don't care because this is my fun time and
the injury is my battle wound.
-Bre

Today me and my host mom took a bus to Kyoto. We went to a manga museum, and
Josie and I took pictures with the clothes they had on display. I also found
$0.61 in change under a toy vending machine when Bre dropped her money. An old
man was laughing at me the whole time, so I think I was the highlight of his
day. After, we went to a national treasure museum [Sanjusangendo] and got to see
all the old statues. We got lost after the taxi we took dropped us off in the
wrong place at the train station, but eventually found our way. We had some free
time at the airport and now we are headed to the meditation.
--Virginia

Today we were supposed to ride the trains to Kyoto by ourselves, but my host mom
insisted on riding with me whole way. Saying goodbye was really sad but she
said their family will come to WI to visit me. Later with the whole group, we
walked in the rain to the Manga Museum. I bought folders. Then we went to the
National Treasure Museum; it was really, really cool. Then I ate udon. Now we're
going to a temple to meditate. Yay.
-Josie

So I was supposed to be riding the trains by myself sometime on this trip, but
that never happened because my host uncle or whatever you want to call him was
going to both of the places I needed to go. A little anti-climactic, but I was
thankful. I will say however in recent situations I have been navigating quite
well. It has only rained one day, which has been very fortunate. However, there
is another typhoon coming which may mean we can't go to the little island, and I
would be ticked off. Since it was raining we did some indoor sightseeing. That
was really cool and interesting.

I went by bus to get to Kyoto, it was a really fast ride. Then I got to the
station and saw Darrel. We walked to the hotel but went around one block too
many. Then the subway, then the manga museum, it was pretty boring. The national
treasure temple was the best part. Then I got whacked with a stick by a monk,
but learned some things about monks. Then came back to the hotel and kinda
stayed up all night.
-Damien