a new week started in Japan and we met another friend based in
Kyoto named Ryoko. Monday morning we waited at the train station with other young friends employing the whole day and making a visit at the university. The visit included two temples in the morning one gold and one silver, the largest difference we found between these is that the golden leaves you amazed by its beauty, completely appeased in gold . For the silver one our attention was caught by the particularities of the garden, obviously cared on the smallest details: the maintenance work is never finished, there are a lot of gardeners involved to maintain in perfect conditions the grassy mantle and everything else in an almost maniacal (they brushed the grassy mantle as though it was the floor of them house and pick the fallen leaves one by one). In the afternoon we enlarged our Japanese knowledge as Ryoko presented us some fellow academics and with them we spent the whole afternoon around
Kyoto.
In classic Japanese style have it urged us to enter into an amusement park, a sort of amusement arcade spread over several floors. One of them was completely devoted to one of the most popular young japanese entertainment... this is a kind of istant photo machinery , which you can customize in a thousand ways, with the more disparate backgrounds and writings .
The following day, always under the watchful gaze of Ryoko, we did a trip to the local university.. we have been invited to the Italian course for Japanese. In truth it was a course dedicated to Italian dialects, and we held a lecture on Treviso dialect . He struck informality of the lesson, a climate decidedly relaxed and serene, so much so that at the end of the lesson the teacher came to lunch with us. At the end of lunch academic affected by surprise while sorseggiavamo a pseudo Italian coffee, we heard voices behind us Italians. But to our surprise is checked Simona, a girl of Frosinone which is located at
Kyoto to study Japanese for an entire year. . There was delighted to make his knowledge and feeling a little 'of dialect ciociaro ... and we did hear quite well since she never quit a moment... that ..., in fact we did a lot nice to meet you. In the afternoon, another temple: kiyozumi Temple. The peculiarity of this construction lies in the fact that was erected on the piles, but mainly represents the integration between two different religions, that Buddhist and Shinto. In the evening, for the pleasure of our readers, we have abandoned the usual restaurants, because Masaki invited us to dinner at his house. His mother has prepared a classic: rice curry graduation three (in fact you can choose how spicy you like, on a scale ranging from one to thirty).