Today's To Do list:
1. Sleep in.
2. 10:30 am - First Japanese lesson with the adorable Kojima-sensei, our new volunteer Japanese teacher
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Japanese lessons at the Akashi International Association
with Kojima-sensei. |
3. Lunch in a food court in Akashi - burgers and icecreams. Buy a
Mameshiba keychain. Take photos.
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| Mameshiba: Excuse me, but did you know... |
4. Spot of stationary shopping.
5. Catch a train to Maiko to see the
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, the largest central span suspension bridge in the world.
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| This is a big bridge. |
6. Fight off creepy, toothless old man in the park who wants to touch my necklace and camera.
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| Like this but Japanese. |
7. Take a million photos of the bridge, and be particularly impressed with its size and the thickness of its cables. Length AND width. Ha.
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| The cables on the bridge are THIS BIG! |
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| Akashi-Awaji Bridge |
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I live in Akashi. If you live in Akashi, you have to have a photo like this.
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| Standing in the shadow of the bridge. |
8. Be impressed with the hordes of fishermen and fisherfamilies, old dudes playing Shogi (like the chess guys in Wollongong mall, but I couldn't understand the swearing) and various other people braving the incredible heat to use the space around the bridge for their various purposes.
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| Shogi in the shade |
9. Head up into the underside of the bridge to see the observation deck thing. Enjoy the air conditioning. Eat a rainbow ice/fruit/icecream concoction while overlooking Akashi city.
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| Doesn't this look like an FPS? It's the underside of the bridge. |
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This is Akashi from the bridge. That photo of
me above was taken at the point of the closest bit down there. |
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Rainbow ice (i.e. shaved ice with blue, green,
red, yellow, orange and purple flavourings, with
condensed milk, fruit and soft serve ice cream). Oh, and Akashi. |
10. Then walk through the park, sit in the shade. Pretend to be a tree.
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This is a good sign that it was too hot and
we didn't take enough water. |
11. Train home, Skype, sleep.
Food Highlight of the Day: Did you see that picture of the rainbow icecream? It was DEFINITELY that.
1 comment:
Ne, shiteru?
Funny you should comment the underside of the bridge looks like an FPS - there's a section in Half Life 2 where you have to cross under a huge rail bridge that looked a bit like that. :D
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