Kyoto

I went to Gion on Monday, last Monday. I'm not sure if you guys know but there was an accident in Gion last... Saturday? Maybe? A man passed out while driving and drove right into a crowd of people. Seven or eight people died and ten were badly injured. When I was in Kyoto I was with some friends and they felt real uneasy around that area. Japan is kind of superstitious about the supernatural. They believe that that spot where the accident happened will be an area for future accidents because of the negative energy left from those who died. I wonder what caused the man to pass out at the wheel.

I swear I haven't forgotten you

It's been a while. I'm going to try to get back into the swing of blogging again. I've just gotten so distracted and I know I've probably said this three or four times before but I say it because it's true. My goal is one blog post a week. Maybe two. Even if they have nothing interesting to say.

It's spring time in Japan, you can tell because all the cherry blossoms are in bloom. I've been to three separate cherry blossom picnics. One was in Kyoto, one was in Osaka and one was in Kakogawa. The one in Kyoto was for the KCA (Kansai Canadian Association) where I was invited to be part of the staff because I plan on being in Japan for a while. It was interesting to have all these people come up to me and ask me when I was going back, to which I'd reply "I live here." And they automatically went, "For now, right? Because of work?" I'd have to say, "No, I live here with my husband and his family. There's no going back for me." Sometimes we'd go back and forth between the "I live here" "For now" Which got a little tiresome, I'll admit. Oh speaking of that, I saw a young boy playing in around the park that we had the picnic at and thought his shirt was amusing so I took a picture.