Entry 102
Dear Diary,
It
seems like just yesterday that I was writing last Monday and the day
before yesterday when I was writing two weeks ago. I`m quite certain
that time has sped up quite a bit. It`s got to be a part of somebody`s
evil plan to take over the world. I`ll have to figure out who`s so that
I can stop them. I`ll look into it tomorrow. Thought the week was
extremely fast, there was also some good interesting stuff.
We went on a fun adventure during preparation day last
Monday. There was a way famous historical site (Hieizan) in our area,
but on the map it looked like it was in the middle of the mountains. It
was actually on top of a mountain. We rode the train to the bottom of
the mountain. We then rode a cable car up the side of the mountain.
That was pretty interesting. We rang a giant bell. We walked around
looking at all of the neat Buddhist stuff. Apparently that mountain is
the "Mother of Buddhism." The top Buddhist guy used to live there and
stuff. There was a little cartoon map of the whole mountain at the
entrance. A little ways off, at what looked like the summit of the
mountain on the map, the was what was called a garden museum. We really
wanted to go, but didn't want to pay for a shuttle out there. We
decided that we could just find the way and started going up higher on
the mountain. I figured that as long as we were going in an upward
direction, we had to be going the right way, right? We went up for
forever. The farther we went up, the more foggy it got. .Pretty soon,
we couldn't really see ten feet in front of us. I started to hear some
freaky animal noises, but we kept going. Eventually, we actually made
it to the top of the mountain. There was a little pile of rocks and a
sign stuck in it that said "Mt. Hiei Summit 848.3m". I felt somewhat
accomplished for having climbed the mountain, but also somewhat
disappointed that there were not gardens or artwork around. While
wandering around at the top, we saw a little path and decided to follow
it. It led to an empty parking lot. I said empty because there were
no people or cars in it, but it wasn't really empty. There were about
ten to fifteen monkeys walking around it it. Some of them had babies.
They were climbing on fences and street signs and stuff. It was pretty
cool. We even saw some jump into the parking lot from trees near the
other side of the fence. It turned out to be the parking lot for the
garden museum. It cost like ten dollars to go in. So, we just left the
way we came. On the trip down the mountain, we saw a deer. Fun day.
I`m excited to go to Mt. Fuji and Tokyo with my family
next month. If we take the bullet train (shinkansen) then it would take
about four and a half hours to get from Kyoto to Mt. Fuji. It`s just
that we have to take the bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo and ride a normal
train from Tokyo to Mt. Fuji. It would cost about 15000 yen. Is the
shinkansen included in the train passes? If we take the normal trains
from Kyoto to Mt. Fuji, it`d take about seven hours and about 100
dollars. Going from Mt. Fuji to Tokyo is about two hours and about 20
bucks.
Sunday was Father`s Day. Nothing really happened here
in Japan for Father`s Day. I think that most people were not aware that
it was a holiday. I have the best father in the world. I hope that he
had a great day in the U.S. on Sunday. I`ll get to see him and tell
him Happy Father`s Day soon enough. I hope that my wonderful mother
has a great day on her birthday that is coming up. Normally, we have
the same birthday, but because of the time zone differences my birthday
will be the day before hers. Isn't that interesting?
I've got to get going. If the evil scheme for time
acceleration keeps up, then I`ll be writing again in a couple of hours.
Bye.
-Elder Isaac Swift
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