Well, our first full day proved to be full of surprises! We were all awake around 4 ish as our bodies were telling us that it really is the middle of the afternoon!!! We had orientation with 3 of the committee members. We first went over the itinerary...WOW!!! We were told that we would experience some things that no other team had experienced before! We have quite the 4 weeks ahead of us! We then discussed culture but it became very apparent that we had had quite a bit of preparation in this area...so on to the presentation. We each took turns doing our introduction and changes were made and finessed. They were completely thrilled with the quality of the brochure and introductions and exclaimed that, " it will be one of the best presentations by any GSE team! " Wow, that got us pumped! Thanks Tamie and Lori for helping to make that possible!
We were treated to lunch at a Ramen Noodle House and we all had amazing noodle bowls (huge bowls of noodle soup with thinly sliced pork. We also had Goiza which are pork filled dumplings, boiled and then fried, dipped in a mixture of vinegar and soy sauce. This a specialty for this region of Japan. They were amazing!
In the afternoon we took a stroll in the rain through the streets around our hotel and stumbled upon this beautiful shrine smack dab in the middle of a residential area. The entrance was lined with these beautiful orange lamps.
And the prayers hung outside.
And we decided to return at night and the sight of all of the laterns lit was amazing!
We also found this awesome little "Rotary like" saying that was very meaningful and a great way to end our first day.
We are being picked up this morning by our host families so today will prove to be another amazing day with great opportunities!
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