Monthly Archives: March 2009
A Frozen Watch
Time is frozen. I am staring at the broken remains of a watch stopped at exactly 8:15. 63 years ago it stopped working; it is a timestamp—an artifact of history that makes everything real. I don’t know how long it took, or whether or not his family found his body. I don’t know his last […]
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Spring Break
March 13th was the last day of school before going onto spring break. I finished classes around 1:00 with ceramics, and not having much else to do, I rode my bicycle back to the seminar house and fixed some ramen noodles for lunch. I was nervous and extremely excited, because on Saturday I would be […]
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Spring Break: Day 6
My parents plane left sometime in the afternoon, and with my Shinkansen ticket to Hiroshima at 5:00, we had to part ways with each other fairly early. I escorted my parents to Osaka, and we had enough time to visit a few stores and buy some “last minute things.” I went as far as the […]
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Spring Break: Day 5
On Wednesday my parents and I decided we would venture to Nara, just south of Kyoto, to visit its parks and famous temples. We took a shuttle bus from the hotel to Kyoto Station, then took a train straight down to Nara. Inside the station we bought day passes for the Nara bus-line for about […]
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Spring Break: Day 4
Our last day exploring Kyoto, we decided we would visit the Imperial Palace. It was within walking distance of our hotel, so we again set out by subway–bound for what we hoped to be landscape just as beautiful as the Heian Shrine’s gardens. [singlepic=414,320,240,,left]We arrived on the Imperial Grounds after rounding a wall of shrubs […]
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