the first couple of days

Well I am still feeling tired but this is now because I have already done so much.
I walked around Kanazawa a little bit on Monday morning, completely missing all the shops and the huge park in the centre so I now have a map in English from the tourist information. I followed this up with 5 hours japanese in the afternoon, its soooo hard, i am finding it difficult even to learn simple phrases, I just done have anything to hang the words onto. Speaking to other students this is a common occurence so its something I simply have to get through hopefully in a week or so it will get better.

During dinner on Monday evening I mentioned that one of the things that I wanted to do was to visit a japanese bath house, a big discussion followed (none of which I understood) and suddenly we were in the car and going to a local one. It was a great experience, the baths themselves were very similar to spa's in Switzerland but the water was much much hotter and there was also 20 minutes of cleaning and scrubbing before you got into the water. Arrived home after this and went pretty much straight to bed, shattered.

Tuesday morning came and I went to visit Shishiku heights, which is a nature park/temple about 40 minutes away from Kanazawa by train. The temple was really impressive and the view from the top of the cable car was pretty good as well, I just cant get over how tree-lined all the hillsides are, I guess the reason they dont build on hills must have something to do with earthquakes.

Now I am about to spend a couple of hours doing my homework for tomorrow.