jueves, 27 de septiembre de 2007

名古屋城





昨日名古屋城へ行った!すごくすてきな所だと思う。 そして刀があるよ!南山大学のフィルドトリプだったから日本学生と留学生は一生に行った。友達サヤコさんとサヤミさん話したりした。スパイン語がわかるのでスパイン語でたいてい話した。楽しかったと思う。写真は見て下さい!This is Nagoya Castle!!! This is the first castle that I have ever seen in Japan! It was magnificent! I learned a lot about what life was for the royally rich back in the day and i'm guessing that it pretty much rocked. There were several floors to climb, many a sword to see, and several exhibits to gaze upon. The thing that Nagoya-jo prides itself on are these two gold-plated whales placed on the top of the building on opposing sides of the tip of the roof. They are immense. From the top you can see all of Nagoya (which is pretty smoggy by the way) and the rest of the castle grounds. The kindof cool thing about the construction of the castle was that the many different clans that helped out moving hte foundation stones all marked the stones with their family crest and these crests can still be seen today. Mind you the actual structure was completely annihilated during the air raids of the second world war, the rebuilt structure is still the heart of the city and an amazing site to see.
Afterwards I mainly came back to my home in 一宮 and did some homework. I did that until about 10 when I went online for a bit. Mom/Dad/everyone, you are never online anymore!! I try to text to no avail. But really, excluding some rare excursions to the computer cluster on-campus, I am hardly online anyway except for late at night (USA read: early morning). There are a couple more things that I needed to report on that concern Japan's abnormalities or eccentricities. The first concerns riding a bike: When riding a bike note how the Japanese ride their bike, they constantly swerve to and fro which leaves the want-to-pass-you foreigner (read:this guy) also swerving to and fro...jockeying for position like a nascar racer around a horse-drawn carriage. Absurd. Second, concerning buses: Some buses, like those bound for a certain Myouken-cho 妙見町, come at an outrageously frequent interval; whereas other buses bound for other, more popular and certainly more important areas of town come once in a steely-teal moon (which is rarer than blue moon mind you).
Una etstrellita del mar se callo aqui en mi corazon. La doy mi amor, pero まだ miedo tengo.
Tengo fotos! Disfutan!

1 comentario:

rbenne2 dijo...

the view of Nagoya looks sweet! how come there aren't any pictures of the massive whales or the family crests? that all sounds very cool, hooray for history. i saw a lot of castles in Ireland...it would be fun to compare the backgrounds between the two. hope you are doing well!