Dazaifu: November 5th 2007

For some reason I didn’t went to the second JTW trip, so stupid of me. The second trip was rice harvesting. But I did went to the next studytrip, Sumo stable and Dazaifu. We went with a rather small bus to Dazaifu to first see how sumo wrestlers train. I was never really interested in sumo, but I did want to see how they practise. It wasn’t really shexy to see those fat dudes in diapers, but for half an hour it was ok to see. But I think it wasn’t half an hour but more, so soon I got a little sick of it. After watching the training we could ask questions to a sumo wrestler, apparently the guy who we could ask questions to was a high rank sumo wrestler. ( I think he was ranked 3rd in whole Japan) Pretty cool I think. So Imai sensei translated all our questions. At one time I think he even said something like don’t ask stupid question to a question Amy asked. haha (Imai sensei is crazy) After all our questions we got to take pictures with them.

While walking to the beautiful shrine of Dazaifu, there were a group of school children and they were sooo cute. So we decided to take a picture with them. I asked some of the girls, but they were saying こわい (scary) to me or King. King was saying they were saying it to me, probably he is right becuz I’m gaijin and look very different from them. I didn’t think they were cute anymore then haha. But the boys were much cooler they didn’t mind at all to take a picture with me.   I even put my hat on one of the boys head and he did the same gesture as me on the picture. The time we went to the shrine it was 7-5-3, a holiday. This is a traditional rite of passage for girls of 7 and 3 year old girls and for 3 and 5 year old boys. It was really cute they all went to the shrine in their kimono’s.

The shrine was really amazing, very pretty. We got some explanation by a priest, but I really didn’t listen. I was playing with Eunyoung and the explanation lasted a while so it got boring. We also went to a zen garden. Then we got free time and could eat and buy souvenirs.  We went to eat with a big group and it was lots of fun.

The food was pretty good and afterwards we went shopping, the stores there were really cute. There was a Totoro store <3 and also a very pink hello kitty store. I got a hello kitty from Kahyun and I also gave one to her. So nice. We all took a lot of pictures on this day. I had an awesome time that day. 
And especially for Sam my sumo pose.

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