Today my day started by me opening me eyes to my parents telling me to get up and get dressed. They were waking us up to go and make sushi. Yes you got that right today we are learning how to make sushi. Oh and also dumplings also called gyozo. After a rush breakfast a lady arrived and brought us to where we are going to make sushi and dumplings. First was the sushi. We learned how to make Maki (the sushi in rolls), Nigiri (the sushi that is rice on the bottom...

Today my day started by me opening me eyes to my parents telling me to get up and get dressed. They were waking us up to go and make sushi. Yes you got that right today we are learning how to make sushi. Oh and also dumplings also called gyozo. After a rush breakfast a lady arrived and brought us to where we are going to make sushi and dumplings. First was the sushi. We learned how to make Maki (the sushi in rolls), Nigiri (the sushi that is rice on the bottom...

Today we woke up early, early, early. Early, early, early is about 5:45 in the morning. After getting dressed and ready to go we went to breakfast for the first time in our new hotel. The breakfast was SOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!! There were some western things there that I miss having like pancakes. After breakfast we took the train to the oldest temple in this area where our meditation class is going to be. We arrived at the entrance of the temple after a...

Today we are doing a bunch of traveling. To start off the traveling we went on the bullet train from the city to the country. The bullet is really called the shinkansen train. It is nicknamed the bullet because it is the fastest train in Japan. After the bullet train we took a normal train. Then we changed to a train to go up the side of the mountain. That train lasted about 15 minutes and some turns were so sharp we had to back in to the mountains and then g...