Because it's okay to have fun

This is Jason's favorite store. Everytime we go, I feel like I'm taking Jason to Disneyland...or erm, UniqloLand. Though I admit I like their clothes. It's kind of like a higher quality h&m but same price.

This week for Japanese Religion and Culture class, we took a field trip to Fushimi Inari, which is famous for it's tunnel esque countless red tori gates. Here's a picture to get a better grasp of what I'm talking about.

I've been here before, but this is the first time I learned some of the religious background of the shrine. It's Shinto, though we ran into some other types of buddhist shrines along the way as well. People make pilgrimages here for religious and non-religious reasons (such as just to jog it for exercise, or to be tourists like us). I think the most interesting thing was that apparently people come to worship rocks which in Japanese are called otsukas...I'm not sure how I feel about that...but everyone definitely looked at me every time our teacher mentioned that fact. Here's an otsuka:

Later that day we went to Kyoto Tower Hotel for a welcome party hosted by Doshisha University. Here is the president of Doshisha.

The food was pretty great. Anyhow, maybe there will be a longer post about this in the future but engrish in Japan always makes me laugh.

Here's my attempts at translating

Beef Saute ala Japanese

Pork Kakuni

Mix Fried

We also had to wear name tags...which OF COURSE degenerates into this =)

And then after that we went to karaoke! Here is Jason Brown and Christian Ollano singing Telephone by Lady Gaga...

This is my 2nd cousin. He's doing a Fulbright in Kyoto and just graduated from Pomona, so we met up for dinner. And I found out he was in IV at Pomona! Exciting. And he did worship team. Legit. Hopefully I can talk to him more about it later.

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Cor 10:31