Day 11
Western breakfast with a twist is how I started my day today. Actually there wasn’t much about breakfast that was western. There was sausage with 
broccoli, curry spaghetti, meatballs in 
sweet sauce, and a number of other interesting foods like gooey dehydrated soybeans. But the food matches the place well. Today Amanda and I went with Susan, Rory, 
Tonya, Fadie, and Oliver to Nara. In Nora we went to a Buddhist temple. It was really neat because it not only had a three-story pagoda but it also had a five story one as well. Also it is interesting to see all the different ways people pray to the gods. In all ways they believe that you have to get the god’s attention. This can happen in many ways: ringing a huge bell, clapping, or even burning the prayers so that the message is carried up to the god. There was also a new way that I saw today in which the person praying splashes water onto the statue of Buddha and as the water evaporates that carries the message up to the god. After the temple we went to the National Museum and we even had a personal 
English guide that took us around and explained each of the different statues. This was so helpful because there were so many different stories behind the statues and without the guide a lot of this information might have been missed. After the museum 
we went to a park where deer just wonder around and you can feed them these special deer cookies. This doesn’t mean that they will only eat deer cookies though, in fact they will eat anything that you are not guarding. One even tried to eat my passport holder, and we watched one deer bit these guy’s pants right in the butt. After playing with the deer for awhile we went to see the 
big Buddha. He is 40ft tall and his eyes each measure 3.36 feet wide. He is really big! After taking in as much as we could of the Big B Susan treated us to lunch, where I had as you might guess, Katsudon. After lunch we al broke off and Amanda and I did some shopping before heading back to Osaka. By the time we made it back we were tired and so decided to fold some cranes.
We later wondered around for dinner but settled on convenience food take out, which is surprisingly rather good. Make sure to take some time to experience Japanese television culture. It is really different from American TV and it shows a different perspective of Japanese life. Well, until tomorrow.
broccoli, curry spaghetti, meatballs in 
sweet sauce, and a number of other interesting foods like gooey dehydrated soybeans. But the food matches the place well. Today Amanda and I went with Susan, Rory, 
Tonya, Fadie, and Oliver to Nara. In Nora we went to a Buddhist temple. It was really neat because it not only had a three-story pagoda but it also had a five story one as well. Also it is interesting to see all the different ways people pray to the gods. In all ways they believe that you have to get the god’s attention. This can happen in many ways: ringing a huge bell, clapping, or even burning the prayers so that the message is carried up to the god. There was also a new way that I saw today in which the person praying splashes water onto the statue of Buddha and as the water evaporates that carries the message up to the god. After the temple we went to the National Museum and we even had a personal 
English guide that took us around and explained each of the different statues. This was so helpful because there were so many different stories behind the statues and without the guide a lot of this information might have been missed. After the museum 
we went to a park where deer just wonder around and you can feed them these special deer cookies. This doesn’t mean that they will only eat deer cookies though, in fact they will eat anything that you are not guarding. One even tried to eat my passport holder, and we watched one deer bit these guy’s pants right in the butt. After playing with the deer for awhile we went to see the 
big Buddha. He is 40ft tall and his eyes each measure 3.36 feet wide. He is really big! After taking in as much as we could of the Big B Susan treated us to lunch, where I had as you might guess, Katsudon. After lunch we al broke off and Amanda and I did some shopping before heading back to Osaka. By the time we made it back we were tired and so decided to fold some cranes.
We later wondered around for dinner but settled on convenience food take out, which is surprisingly rather good. Make sure to take some time to experience Japanese television culture. It is really different from American TV and it shows a different perspective of Japanese life. Well, until tomorrow.
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