The past week and a half or so in Kyoto has been very eventful. I started off by visiting Himeji Castle which is about a 2 hour train ride away from Yamashina. We ended up getting off the train two stations too early and at that point we were out in the boonies so it was forty minutes until the next train arrived! But Himeji was well worth a visit and as the lonely planet says, if you are going to visit only one castle in Japan it should be Himeji. Plus along the way we past the world’s longest suspension bridge - larger than the Golden Gate! At Nova, teachers were supposed to be paid on Monday the 15th, but the previous Friday we received notice we would not be paid until the Friday. So
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