Friday 23rd September ~ Kamakura

haha yet again my lazyness prevails.

on this day, our last in Japan was a school holiday, what the occassion of i really cant remember, but the school had aranged a bus for us, and our host families to go to kamakura for the day. kamakura is basically the hostorical centre and is famous for its woodworks and carving. it is also the home of the biggest outdoor budda, which you can climb inside of. after going to that temple and the surrounding area, and witnessing a Japanese wedding we were free to wonder the area with our hostfamilies.

we left kamakura on the bus to the airport where we had to get of the bus leaving our host families. for me this was a really difficult time as while with this host family i had struggled alot because of the language barrier and being really homesick especially during the 2 days we wernt at school, where i had no contact with any fluent english speakers but as i said God provided for me and brought me through it and it was a strengthiening experiance that i really felt a few more days in and i would have really started to actually enjoy myself instead of using all my energy just on understanding them and what was going on around me and being so stressed about not comprehending. also at that point of time i didnt believe that i would ever see them again as i didnt see it as a reality for us to contine communication once i had gone home because of the language. but it was something that had to happen, and i was given 2 very long letters written by them when we left, that i had to get mrs forman to read it to me, as it was all in japanese, simple japanese as far as the words go but they still used kanji, that once mrs forman had told me the reading off i could actually understand the most of it.

once checked in we had time in the airport befor we could bored our plane, we had dinner and looked around at a few of the shops befor moving down to the depature lounge and location our gate.

at one point we were rather worried about not getting out of japan that night due to the weather conditions, an oncomming typhoon but we did get out befor it hit and only experiances little turbulance. but i discovered that i do not like overnight flights, i could barly sleep and i hadnt packed much in my hand luggage to keep me entertained as i had though that we would be getting he little screens again, though this was not the case.

its hard to define the diffrence of days here because of the lack of sleeping and a true night but i will finish this log here and put the jounal of arriving home in a seprate blog