Week5 and the Exchange Zine is coming along nicely!Still room for more submissions!

Exchange magazines submission posters are around the university and the submissions are coming in! Thats my desk space there..its sooo nice to have my own area to work in.

What I have been reading on the bus and when I have a spare mo. Handed in the Draft Proposal of my dissertation this week with the help of some of these books. The 'Education role of the Museum' by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill was quite pivotal. Maybe Museum studies masters next next year...

Pompoko!
These little fellas are everywhere, like are garden nomes! After talking to the girls in painting we realised that the japanese restaurant back home is named after Racoons!

Anime Lucy, Shelly and Millie!
They girls here love these photo booths where you get edited and airbrushed into a cartoon manga character!

'Dieting'
By touching this little cow will cure all your aliments and running around this building turning these blocks and ringing a bell is pretty good for you too... Oh and they have shrines specifically for babies! Enlightening. 

Kyoto Markets
 We stumbled into a flea market in some temple grounds. ..they were selling all sorts of foods, crafts, clothes and all sorts! There are lots of shopping arcades here and food markets! Squid with a quails egg in its head.Yoshi (yum)! They like raw egg over their food here too, i didnt realise this and hacked away thinking it was hardboiled, dribbly egg everywhere...

Night in Kyoto!
Saw the giesha girls, it was really exciting, quite magical, and a bit disney like...Met some other internationals from a fancy university in America i think in a Brazilian bar...not very japanese but was fun! Then off to a club, usual hip hop goop but with some funny DJ hyping in between. Squid balls and a bit of apple shisha after, an alternative to the kebab at the end of a night!