From Kyoto

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We arrived in Osaka after an 11 hour long flight. From Osaka we took a taxi van to Kyoto. The trip was about an hour. We are spending our nights in a traditional style Japanese Inn. The rooms have bamboo tatami mats, and you have to take your shoes off when you go in.
In Kyoto, we have spent one day with a Guide named Shoto. He showed us some of the temples and shrines, and the train station. We saw some rickshaw drivers, and a large outdoor strip mall. The train station has a series of about six escalators that went up a total of around 10 stories.

Tomorrow we will see more of Kyoto, and then go down to Nara and see the tame deer. On Sunday (Saturday for you) we will go to Ishigaki and meet our host families.

From Devon:

Hey everyone! Having much fun in Kyoto. Its not really hot here, only about 70 degrees, but its really humid.
My phone isn't working so far, but I hope it will start soon. Tomorrow I will get post cards for everyone. I will try to send them if I can. I have been able to take a lot of great pictures! I miss you all. And BTW Finny, I GOT TO SEE RUSSIA OUT THE WINDOW OF THE PLANE!!!!
Muahahaha.

From Evan

Hey mom and dad! It is WAY too hot here...but we got the A/C to work and it is AWESOME. It may be a long three weeks but things are going ok. We leave for ishigaki on sunday (your saturday). Hope that everyones ok, ill be posting more as the trip goes on as will others. I miss you guys!

I now know how high, in earlobes, our plane was. heres to boring flights and calculators.
p.s. Im not dead
p.p.s. yet
-Erskine

From Andre,

Captains Log, Stardate.... 2

Dearly Departed,
We hath landed our vessel in ye olde land of the rising sun. The weather hath been clement, and humid as h-e-double hockey sticks. I would like to say thank you to the academy for giving me this chance to partake in such a life breaking experience.
I'd also like to thank Mrs. Meyers my Kindergarten teacher for teaching me English, because she made me realize how much I enjoy other languages because english is so boring.
Please note: I do not have access to teh intertubz. Please send Ethertubes. I am writing this with a hammer and chisel, into the side of an whale, which I hope will wash up on the Oregon coast, which will then make its way onto the internet when they try to blow it up, and realize my message has been carved into the side.
As Abraham Lincoln once said; "Goodbye everybody" I'm pretty sure he said that.
btdubz
Hi Mally.

Hey mom, im a man of few words could put my frequent flyer miles on my account for for me because i cannot...
-jade

Will - what everyone else said. Plus, I saw that green monster thing that people like. So that was cool.