So I’m fresh off the train from Kyoto and it was amazing. It’s this wierd combination of ancient and modern that I’ve never experienced in or out of Japan. We walked along this one street, Pontocho, which was a narrow alley with every step a wood and rice paper entrance to an exclusive tea house. It was beautiful and serene.

So you’re probably wondering where all those great pictures are, right? The sad truth is that I probably am not going to be able to put up pictures until I get an internet connection at my house (wherever that will be, they still haven’t told me!) or I go to someone else’s house who lets me log on. I can’t hook my camera up to these net cafe computers, they really lock ‘em down.

So please keep reading, and soon you’ll have the pretty lights make happy time, okay?

Training starts for real tomorrow and lasts until Sunday. It’s going to be a busy week from the looks of things. They start at 10 or 11AM and go until 8 or 9PM, depending on the day. We will be teaching students on WEDNESDAY. That’s right, even though I’ve never taught before, I will be teaching a classful of volunteer students on WEDNESDAY. That’s 3 days from now, for crying out loud! I’m a little worried, but I think we’ll be going through enough things in these 10 hour days so that I’ll be able to teach something by then.

I hope. Gulp.

Oh, we got accosted by a Jehovah’s Witness this morning on the way to the train station. The Watchtower in a whole new country.