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May 19th: Kyoto Presentation Day


 Around 9 a.m. my ERAU buddies and I met up with our OMU buddies at the I-Site building, which wasn’t too far from our hotel. Once we got there, we had a short lecture from Dr. Hirose and got to work on our presentations. The presentation had to include each group’s theme, what we had learned, and our impressions of the Kyoto field trip. My group’s theme was Nature focused as we went to shrines, and temples to embrace the beauty that surrounded those places. Joseph, Dante, and I learned so much while in the Kyoto prefecture. Since we had gone to the Kanji Museum, we found out that there are over 50,000 Kanji and that 2024’s Kanji means “tax.” While walking around we wore Yukata’s and our OMU buddies Kyoka and Nene told us that there are 3 types of kimonos and the Yukata is a thinner material used for hotter days. Our impressions were a little scattered but the main one is that many other foreigners were also wearing Yukata’s. After all the presentations were done, my roommate Victoria, Kyoka, and I went to an arcade, which Kyoka said was a popular place to go to after school. We went into a photobooth; however, it wasn’t like any other photobooth, it added a very striking filter. You were able to edit the photos to your liking, but we were timed and since Victoria and I couldn’t understand what the machine was saying, we felt rushed. Kyoka ending up helping us out big time, but in the end we got really cute and funny photos. We then began to play some games and Kyoka explained them to us as Victoria and I didn’t understand what was happening, but once we did, we were all having a great time. After exhausting ourselves with upbeat activities, we all decided to get food and Kyoka brought us to an Izakaya, which is another place college kids go to after school to hang out with friends and have a good time. While we were there Kyoka said she had never spoke in English in an Izakaya before, and I thought that was interesting. Once we had finished our snacks, we stopped by the convenience store to get desserts and then we split ways. It was more of a laxed day as there wasn’t too much running around, but still fun getting to try new things.

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