Meditation

This was written a few days ago, on friday to be precise. sorry for the delay in posting.

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Today we went to a Buddhist temple and meditated with a monk. You had to have good posture and breathe deeply. If you did not have good posture the monk would get up and hit you with a wooden paddle. My posture was poor so I was the first one to get hit, which did not hurt at all. From then I made sure I had good posture especially when he was walking around looking at us to see if we had good posture or not. We meditated for 15 minutes twice. After that we went to a noodle factory and got to see how ramen is made. We got to see the levels of how it's made. As in how it's already thick but then it gets thinner and then it is cut and packaged. What we did not get to see in person we saw on a show that they made to tell us about different noodles and how they are made. Then we went to Hiraka East Middle school. We introduced ourselves and then had lunch. We got to learn how to play a shamisen. All we learned was the basic notes that you have to learn. We had a few minutes to relax after that, so we all went to the gym and Gavin, Alaric, Julia, and I started a game of basketball, it was pretty fun. Our opponents were changing, some would stop playing and some would start to play. After that we gathered up in the gym and did our performance and the students preformed for us and then they taught us the Japanese traditional dance. It was hard at first but the second time I got the hang of it. We all took a picture with all the students from that school and waved good bye.