I haven't been playing music lately. I'm not sure why. I just turned on my playlist and have been rocking out to Journey. If you're not, I suggest that maybe you should be, if you ever wish to find true happiness.
Holy crap this week kicked the crap out of me. I have no idea why.I blame my do-nothing attitude from the break. That couldn't have helped. Thankfully, Coming of Age Day is on Monday, so that means I get a three day weekend that is very welcome.
In class we talked about something called the Shikoku Pilgrimage. Well, that's what it is in English, damned if I know it in Japanese. Anyways, it's the original trek that the Koba Daishi made (he was a Buddhist guy. Pretty important. For Buddhists. In Japan) and people follow in his footsteps quite literally walking to and visiting 88 temples in the circuit, and some people do it multiple times in their lives even. You can do it by bus if you're a jerk or handicapped, but there isn't much fun in that.
Anyways, I REALLY want to do it. This would be a bad move, because I wanted to see a whole lot of Japan over the 2 month break coming up, and while this would be travelling a good amount of Japan on foot, it's limited to a specific aspect of Japan instead of the entirety of the culture. Needless to say, it would probably be an enriching experience in and of itself, and I'm sure it would help my language skills to travel on a trek that forces you to rely on the kindness of strangers. There are houses along the way that travellers can stay at for free and the people there give you food and stuff. Pretty cool.
Also, the entire journey (according to my quick Google sleuthing) takes at best 34 days. That's slightly more than even the longest of months (Sleptcember). I'm not sure I'm willing to dedicate that much time to something, regardless of how free it is. We'll see though. And if it does happen, chances are the blog will update extremely sparsely in the time I go, but it would have plenty of pretty pictures, yah? Yeah.
There is a cruise tomorrow for Senjinkai. A FREE cruise! With food and stuff! Should be fun. I'll take a bunch of pictures, and then I will post them here. And also in the photobucket album (incidentally, please tell me if the photos stop working. I get the impression I'm using up most of my bandwidth from the album).
Til tomorrow, bon voyage.
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4 comments:
lol well I learned from the best ;)
we definitely need to have an American food fest when we get back to the States this summer...
I god that would be excellent. I've been cooking for myself here, but I do miss the hormone pumped, preservative slathered American food more than I thought I would.
If you did that pilgrimage, you wouldfind out a lot about Japan and not just about the religous aspect of it. Read up on some blogs about it. (And incidentally, you may want to drop the 'jerk' description of those who don't do the walk ... you clearly have a lot to learn.)
Glad to see an anonymous stranger is commenting on my blog and calling me ignorant and childish.
It apparently would surprise you to find out that the "jerk" was a shot at a sarcastic joke, and not an actual attempt to discredit anybody who makes the trip by bus or whatnot. I've got a lot of respect for people who are willing to make the trip in the first place, and I fully understand that a good number of them are sick or old that are incapable of making the walk.
It might behoove you to learn that there is a thing called a sense of humor that exists, and you should look into it.
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