Alright so starting off the subway system is super difficult, and unfortunately for my friend who invited us to stay at her house, we can’t help her with figuring out the transportation. Although she does live there, she even gets lost ㅋㅋㅋㅋ, We left Korea on Thursday afternoon and arrived around 10 o’clock to her house. A two hour flight with a 4 hour bus ride to her hometown, to another subway ride, and then finally a taxi. Yeah, a long ride and many transfers, but it is worth it. Yuogang, my friend who invited us over, has been showing us around and been going sightseeing it is beautiful. Let me just tell you being a tourist is hard. A lot of walking and not a lot of resting. When we arrived it was sleep and get ready for the next day. So yesterday we went to Osaka and went hiking to see monkeys on a mountain. They roam free and we can go into this shed type area and feed the monkeys. After that we went to the bamboo forest and Chabeli and Annie decided to ride the carriages pulled by tourist guides (mainly men). We raced the guy who was pulling Chabeli and Annie around. The guy had told Yuogang that we weren’t going to beat them, but Kellie, Yuogang, and I are pretty competitive. So we proved the guy half way wrong. He met up with us half-way through the forest and when he saw us he said we walk fast. We took some pictures and the guy offered to take pictures for us. Which we took advantage of and since Yuogang can speak Japanese she asked other people that day to take pictures of us. We ended the night with going to go eat shabu shabu at Yuogang’s favorite restaurant. The food was great and it was pretty fancy looking too. Her mom, treated us to the dinner and we are so thankful for the delicious food. When we went back to Yuogang’s house, Chabeli mentioned how she wanted to dress up in the kimonos. As a collective decision we all said yes and today that is what we did. Before that though, we want to a palace and went on another hike to get there. The palace was beautiful and the view of the city was gorgeous too. We were late to the appointment of the kimonos, but we had a great time walking around in our kimonos and taking pictures in random allies and taking 셀가’s (selfies). I am so tired but tomorrow we go to universal studios! I am so excited but so tired at the same time. This trip is a nice break from school, but I have a feeling this break is going to catch up to me. Well got to go, we are going to get ice cream at the convenience store. It has become a tradition in our group to get ice cream at night.