An American's Japanese Life XIII

May 27, 2015

      Today started off like a normal day. There were no early excursions like we had in the past few days. It was our first day going back to class after about four days of solid traveling around Japan. I was kind of glad to get back to the regular schedule because I was truly tired of running around, Train riding, and walking what seemed to be like a thousand miles resulting it sore feet and complaining. I felt happy just sitting in a room or an hour and a half rather than the endless walking I had to endure the past week.
      During class, we went over the different types of advertisement and how it is used. So for our homework, we had to go out into the world and find any examples that would the specific type of ad that we were looking for. On our quest for the ad examples, a few friends and I came across this building that specializes in wood block print. I did not actually know what wood block print was, but my friend seemed pretty excited about it. We decided to take a break from the assignment and take a look at the place. It just so happened that this place was the famous Mukuhankan owned by the print master David.
      We walked into his shop and he greeted us with open arms. It was that warm type of invitation that you need once in a while to justify that there are still nice people in this world. He took us around the shop explaining what he does and how long he has been doing it. He has been working there since I was born back in 1993. Along with the tour, we were given the opportunity to actually watch how to art was done by one of his students. At the end, my friend bought a piece that resembled the characters for the famous Nintendo game "Star Fox".
      We left the shop and carried on with our previous task of finding the ads. Some of the group decided to split and leave for the hostel. We roamed several shopping areas before deciding that the best thing to do was to go to the local 7-eleven and check the magazines rack. There we found most of our assignment.
       For dinner, we decided to go a sushi place. Dr.V gave me the challenge to eat over 14 plates of sushi. I happily took on that challenge, gather a crew and headed to the sushi place. At the end of the end, I summed up a total of 15 plates while me friend exceeded and got 18 plates. Challenge accept
and exceeded.