Okay, my first post. I'm not too sure what we are suppost to write about, but here I go anyways:



Ever since my bus first pulled out of Osaka airport I have wanted to see these hills. To me even here in Kirakata city they seemed so far away. This is actually the closest that I have come to them since comming here. One intersting thing that I discovered about them was that from so far away these hills look so pretty, untouched by modernization. However, that is clearly untrue since those telephone towers go right through them. I guess that it should not have been so surprising because it happens in America too, but isn't Japan suppose to be the county that is closer to nature? But I guess if that was ture then no one in Japan would be able to talk to one another, after all, there are many pretty hills in Japan.

Before comming to Japan I had this idea in my head that Japan was a place where no matter where you stood inside the city and the surrounding areas, that all you would see is concrete buildings. I had this notion because Japan is a very small place with limited land available for actual use that it just made logical sense to me that the Japanese would try to use all the land that they could. However, I took this picture not ten minutes away from my dorm. Back home I would have to walk miles and miles away from the city to see a sight like this. I think that is the most intersting part. That America is so wide and vast and yet it is in Japan which is so small that I can just walk out my front door and see such beauty.