It’s spring break!

Hey everybody! I just wanted to leave a short note letting you all know that I’m heading off to Tokyo tomorrow afternoon for five days, accompanied by the illustrious Trevor, the suave Sach, the enigmatic Wei, and the punctilious Nick. We’re staying in an inexpensive but modern ryokan (Japanese-style inn) outside of the Asakusa district, about 20 minutes by train from the main loop around Tokyo. We have no solid plans as of yet, except a day tour of Mt. Fuji on Thursday, but we’re certainly not lacking in options. We expect to return sometime Friday evening.

Also, I have uploaded new videos to YouTube! I have a few clips of a brief tour around Houryuji, one of the oldest temples in Japan. Sach, Ben, Eric, Kevin, and I went two weeks ago on a field trip with the rest of our art history class and thoroughly enjoyed it. The quality of my camera’s video in bright light is atrocious, but I hope you’ll still like what you see. Also, there is one video of the speech given by Yamaoka-san, the atomic bomb survivor whose program my history professor’s classes attended last weekend in Hiroshima. Pictures are coming this next weekend or week, but please enjoy the very brief video in the meantime. I have about 15 minutes of footage, but I can’t find a video conversion software that will allow me to encode more than five minutes without paying something. I may be able to split it into chunks, though… I’ll look into it.

Time for bed! I’ve got an early day tomorrow. Nick and I are going to attempt to see the sumo tournament for a few hours before heading off to Tokyo. If we can get there early enough, we can get cheap seats. *sigh* I haven’t gotten nearly enough sleep lately… Oh well. This should be worth it. Catch you later!