The world is my school today my classroom was at a cooking lesson in Tokyo, Japan learning to cook gyozo dumplings and sushi. Directions for how to get to a cooking lesson on time: 1. Get up 30 minutes before breakfast ends 2. Rush to breakfast but take your time in eating 3. Finish breakfast and wait in the lobby for someone in a kimono to pick you up for your cooking lesson 4. Get on public transport to get to where your cooking lesson is w...

The world is my school. Today my classrooms is leaving Kyoto and entering Tokyo again. I woke up at around 5:45AM and went down to breakfast. I was very empty. When we finished eating we started figuring out what we were going to do before we get on the train to Tokyo. Everybody decided on going to the 1000 gates temple, where there are 1000 orange gates, each one built by a family. The bigger the gate, the richer the family. When we arrived at the templ...

The world is my school and today my classroom was at a temple in Hakone Japan. When I woke up I only had half an hour 'til breakfast. Of course I made the right choice and stayed in bed. I cozied in my covers until it was only 7-minutes before breakfast. I was going to wait until it was 3-minutes before breakfast but a lady knocked on the door and said it was already ready. I quickly put on my Yukata (This is a traditional dress for the Japanese, both men and w...

The world is my school today my classroom was on 3 trains, a gondola and in a hot spring. Tokyo and Hakone, Japan. Today we got an early start and head right off, Sayonara Mandarin Oriental and Moshimoshi futons and Mt. Fuji. The first train was super big but was only a 30-minute ride. The next one was a little longer and looked more like an underground/subway. Finally the last train looked like another underground/subway and was a little longer than the...