Day 3
Friend Day #1
Photo #1
Heading back to Fushimi Inari today with my friend. Experienced a lot, and more in depth than with the group. It was hard with a language barrier, but one thing I learned in class and with my own experience is shudan ishiki. The group consciousness and aimai allowed for the understanding that was at least mutual. It helps to have a common interest and to kinda know how the people are with whom you share that common interest. In a way, it was our own Uchi Soto, but I still feel kind of soto to the group as my nervousness got the better of me on the meeting together. Thus it brings out gambari. Gambari was actually not written about until now, but gambari is the ambition and will to strive. Motivation and determination, but where most do this with education and learning, it is in my soul through many aspects — learning, my art, and even where I want to work. I will not give up easily, and that is the gambari.
Sweet treats
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It was a hike in Fushimi Inari — if we were in better clothes, maybe it would have been a hiking trip. However, it was much enjoyed, and so I was in need of something really cold and sweet. Arriving back to Kyoto station we had experienced culture, now it is a modern experience. Eating of the matcha sweets. It was awesome to watch and listen to my friend try her English and me, with the little Japanese I knew, but we just had fun.
Stone of good fortune.
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On the way behind the shrine there was a stone near it. If one can lift it then and if it’s light it means good luck, something that was interesting. It was a cultural and traditional experience and a heartfelt one. It was great and the back had so much more to see, and it helped to share with someone and experience it together.
