Wednesday 14th September ~Kyoto

We (the group) meet at the train station on plenty of time so that we wouldn’t have a repeat of our leaving Tokyo. When we had to leave, some of our families came onto the platform with us (they had special platform passes) Yui gave Jon a letter (she likes him) just before we got on the train.
When it was time for us to change trains I think most of us freaked out a little when Mrs Forman said “ ok bye guys ill see you at dinner tomorrow night “ ( her and Mr Stolz went on to visit our sister school in Hakata)
Mr Swindles and Mrs Cooper were now in charge of the group and managed to get us to out hotel with eh help of Jon’s navigational skills and Kate’s language skills. We left out bags there and headed out again. This time all the girls were in one room and I was nominated keeper of the key.
We went to the kinkukuji (golden temple) and we were supposed to stay as a group but as usual Jon, Mel, Tom and I walked to fast and got way ahead of the group. we got some photos with maiko (apprentice geisha) Jon then got me started on my obsession with melon fanta … its GREAT its just a great pity you cant get it in Australia.
From there we went to Nijojo castle, which was really cool coz it has mocking bird floors and absolutely wonderful Architecture. But as with a lot of the amazing places here we couldn’t take photos. The 4 of us had a great time mucking around in the common room and we scored many a strange looks from the teachers and brad… they were looking in on us every few minutes