Went to Nara yesterday. Met a nice couple from Vancouver. They just graduated from UBC and took a year off to travel. They've been on the road for 6 months now and have been all over Asia. What is it with people and traveling for such a long time?
We walked around Nara Koen, and fought off the persistent deers. They left for Osaka yesterday night, and left me their contact. Maybe I will be able to meet up with them again, as I'm heading for Osaka tomorrow.
I got to know two Korean guys in the hostel that I'm staying in, and then drank the night away with them and two other Japanese guys from Osaka. The manager lady joined us too. Listening to them chatting in Kansai-ben was a delight. The Koreans headed off for Aomori today, and are going up north to Hokkaido. The Japanese guys are here for a track-and-field competition for medical students. I've found that so far everyone I've met are involved in medical science some how. Melissa was a doctor, the Vancouver couple was in micro-biology, and this Japanese guy is an acupuncturist and a medical student. Either this is a sign from god, or the medical field is very popular.
Youko suddenly emailed me telling me that she wants to meet me after all. This just threw my plans into a jumbo. Now I suddenly can't think of anything else.
Nara was good I suppose, and I spent today visiting some other temples in Kyoto. But really, they are not anything I've never seen before. I'm a little tired of temples now, well starting tomorrow, I will be meeting people in Osaka, Hiroshima and Tokyo, so it should be a nice change of pace.
Paul Newell emailed me to thank me for my help during my work at Autodesk/Alias. I'm a little touched, that he remembered me at all, and actually bothered to write me an email in his position and schedule. My internship has only finished less than a week ago, and yet it feels like years ago, and the life in Canada feels so far away.
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