May 16th: Music Club

I woke up in the morning and ate my usual breakfast of rice balls. I had a tuna with mayonnaise ball, a salmon ball, and a omelet ball. I washed it all down with a cold green tea. Today class was at the Nakamozu campus, which is about 30 mins away by train. It is the easier campus to get too, since its the last stop on the m line of the Osaka metro. We spent the first half of our day in classes (in my case Com 221) learning about technical writing. Then we ate lunch, which today was a chicken katsu bento box.

In the afternoon we spent most of the day planning out Kyoto trip with our OMU buddies, and we decided to go too Kiyomizu-Dera, Arashyiama, and Nishiki market. We also tried to learn how to fold a paper crane. The most fun part of the day was the Japanese music club, where we learned how to play two songs on the Koto, a traditional Japanese harp with movable pegs which change the pitch of the strings.

After that I took the subway home, and had a fantastic ramen dinner with another member of the trip. it was a spicy miso beef ramen, and it was much bigger than most of the food we've had in Japan.

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