No one will get the haiku title but it was a fun inside joke in class. So only two weeks left! I'm finding myself missing Kanazawa already and not really missing America. Oh wells! It's still just as fun. I guess since I'm doing such a 'short' program, I'm not feelilng the drop that we mentioned at the light fellowship meeting.
The most awesome thing I did last week was go to temple holiday (O-bon I think?) at a nearby temple. The temple was very beautiful with lots of gold and red. I went with my family and we each got paper lanterns with a candle inside. At the end of the chanting with yummy incense, we went outside and laid down the lanterns in front of the mini buddhas my family had carved ten years ago. I then became friends with these two little girls who I later discovered were the daughters of the temple's monk! I got invited in to have special tea, and I got a tour of the temple from their father. They were very sweet and cute and introduced me to everyone. It's strange to imagine living in such a huge temple one's whole life. I wish I could switch my life into one like that for a day. I also got into the Hokuriku newspaper! Lucky me!
Tomorrow's the in-class speech contest and everyone's unexcited about it. I think many of us want to intentionally do badly so we're not chosen for the real speech contest...
This is me and my host mom at the temple.
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