My friend Sheena is form New Dheli, India. She had a bunch of people at her house for and indian curry night, midnight bannana wafles and a serious Jenga tournament. After that we watched some movies and then just went to bed, the next morning we hit the town, she lives in nakatsu and had suhi. I burnt my hand cause I wasn't paying attention while I was serving my tea....
anyway here are some pictues of the night!

Took a 4 day trip to tokyo for a seminar and met up with tomoko to hit the town!!!

So I lost my cool posters I had in kyoto when I moved here so I was avvoiding studying for my japanese midterm and I did this hahaha, trying to get a japanese lisence really fucks up your head, I cant sleep nor think properly since all this started hahahaha is reall hell, but the good news is that Im only 2 questions away, at least that was todays score, I got 86% and I need 90% stupid hey? but its japan and I have to work with the system it doesn't matter how silly it is.

My last 2 weeks in kyoto were fantastic. Lets start with march 14th, as you know feb.14th is valentines, but in japan march 14th is a holiday as well, its for boys to return presents to the girls so  if i got something in valentines on  march 14ht Im suppoused to give something back to that person (usually chocolates). All the big department stores go crazy arround this time cause all the guys are trying to get presents!.
this is the bottom of Takashimaya dept. store in downtown kyoto where all the sweets stores are.

After like 2 days after white day my friend shinobu who is a photographer asked me if I could model in a kimono for a project she was working on. She is working on the advertisement campaign for a kimono store, so they wanted to shoot some pictures of foreigners in kimono, this day I got a free haircut and got to wear kimono and go arround kyotyo all day plus a free dinner!!!!! good kyoto day

The guy on the left is an italian dude, he is getting married in november this year, the one in the middle is the guy who works in the kimono store he said he allways wears kimono and has more kimonos than jeans!!! (unbelivable) and of course me wiht a weird haircut on the right. Loojk at my amazing shoes (getta) they are made out of snakes skin, COOOOL shoes.
Every night I went back to college residence I pass throu the marvellous Nijo Caslte at night, I finally stopped to get a ghood picture of it, geeze I already miss KYOTO hahahahahaha.

My friends from el coyote made a faiorwel party for me at an izakaya. As japanese costme goes I wasnt allowd to pay for anything that night cause I was leaving and it was a party for me!. Here I am holding a fried frog, the taste wasnt bad but the consistence was a bit weird.

   I got an email from and old friend from mexico that he was coming to japan, so he came with a bunch of people from his university and I gave them a tour of the city, it was a bit of a challenge moving 23 people on public buses bt it was good to see mexicans again it had been a while hahahaha I was beggining to think I was forgetting my spanish. I knew some of the people who ere in the group from high school. It was a good day we went to some cool temples and I got to play tour guide again!.

This was perhaps one of the best fays I've had in kyoto. The scholarship foundation called me at arround 10:23 and woke me up to tell me that they were going to give me the scholarship, for all of those who dont know what an effort it was to send the application and sit the interview it was really unexpected cause they had told me I wasnt going to recieve it, anyway its a long story. After that I called my family and tsuda san which is the same hahaha. After spending the whole morning in pj's watching 24 I went to Ginkakuji to se SAZEN or meditation, I had to seat in a weird position on those pillows for 2 hours and clear my mind ( I couldnt do it, had a lot on my head) I was suppoused to be seating in a 90 degree angle but I couldnt so the priest hit me with his wooden stick, yeah if yuou mess up they hit you and then you have to bow). 
After meditation Tsuda san took me to a GOOOOOOD sushi place, it was so raw but amazingly good and the presentation was impresive.
The picture on the right shows the sushi I ate that night, the flower shapped one was amazingly elaborated, each petal was made from squid, rice and something pink, a real piece of art. The picture on the right shows the sashimi I ate, the red one is maguro or tuna and it was the best tuna sashimi I've ever had, so soft and tastfull.
The lady of the night, tsuda san, who has been more than family to me in this past year and a half.


Finally after so many hours of long basic japanese lessons and everyday exams I graduated the Kyotogaidai international exchange program, graduation was helled at morta memorial hall and after that the exchange studetns went to our building and they gave us or diploma there. Me and carlota were nervous cause they were naming someone from each department to rise and go on stage to recieve the diploma in fron of everyone and we thougt it was gonna be one of us but fortunately a chinese guy did it.
So first picture me and carlote in memorial hall waiting for graduation to start. Then me and the biwako member group hahahaha thats a 5 people member club but the 5th member was  in london, we went to lake biwa during summer and 2 days after graduation we went boat rafting . Me holding my diploma from gaidai and miki looking somehwere else. Piere the other foreigner on the last picture was an exchenge student when I first came to japan, he came to visit for graduatuon, the there is benchan and masaechan hahahaha its weird but guys got more flowers than girls in graduation day, hahaha I didnt get anything...

2nd last fair well party. Carlota left japan on march 23 and that marked the end of the crazy nights out in kyoto. We went to gayagaya in kiamachi to eat and drink a lot for 2 hours. I gave carlota a bottle of sake to remember all tthe fun times in japan. ]


Finally after 20 million fairwell partys I got my own, we just went to old gayagaya in saiin station with people I know. Bunsho was so funny he gave an onzen set since I was moving to beppu and told me to "get in the fucking onzen(hot spring) hahahahaha. Then mike masae and masayuki went as well my graduated friends who stopped being university students and became part of a productive society hahahaha good luck. The kimono team was there as well but only this time I wasnt wearing one, sannennagarane ghahahahaha. And at last the crazy guys from the italian departmen hahahaha ever since laura and alvaro left me and carlota hang out with them they are 1st years and also my age which was weird cause I allways felt older, they gave me a bottle of sake and made everyone signt it. I also got a tshirt from gaya gaya( laura u r so jealous) hahahaha

And just to give a drmaticv touch to kyoto the best picture from kimono day. I cant believe a year and a half has passed, it went so fast, so many people and memories. This was one of the most exciting and amazing experiences ever, I leave behind so many things and people but at the same time take all the memories. To all of those who I met in kyoto and were a part of this thank you it was GREAT.

Kameoka is a small city in kyoto prefecture just 20 minutes away from where I live by train. Every month the free guide club at the international community house in kameoka invites me to chatt in english. This group consists of 5 old ladies and 1 old man. This is by far one of my best part time jobs, eve thou is really small they are great, they allways prepare food for me and allways have something to talk about, plus lets give them credit they are 60-70`s trying to learn english and by the way they speak quite well. We have all seen the yakult advertisements of a japanese lady pushing a yakult car hahahaha well I saw it  in real life!.
Here are some of the groups member preparing the sweets and coffee!!!! 
YESSSSSSSSSSS im a spoiled english teacher. 甘えってくれて良かったねぇぇ
By far my best student, she has been to mexico so we allways monopolize the conversation and just talk about mexican stuff. Here she is eating one of those nasty mexican candys no one seems to like except me or alvaro hahahaha. (paleta de sandia)

Kameoka is a small city in kyoto prefecture just 20 minutes away from where I live by train. Every month the free guide club at the international community house in kameoka invites me to chatt in english. This group consists of 5 old ladies and 1 old man. This is by far one of my best part time jobs, eve thou is really small they are great, they allways prepare food for me and allways have something to talk about, plus lets give them credit they are 60-70`s trying to learn english and by the way they speak quite well. We have all seen the yakult advertisements of a japanese lady pushing a yakult car hahahaha well I saw it  in real life!.
Here are some of the groups member preparing the sweets and coffee!!!! 
YESSSSSSSSSSS im a spoiled english teacher. 甘えってくれて良かったねぇぇ
By far my best student, she has been to mexico so we allways monopolize the conversation and just talk about mexican stuff. Here she is eating one of those nasty mexican candys no one seems to like except me or alvaro hahahaha. (paleta