Sunday in Kyoto

Our very last weekend in Japan! It is so hard to believe we are going back to Sweden. Japan is like a second home to us now. But it isn't over right yet! We still have 3 days left and they are fully booked! There is still 2 more IKEA stores that will receive our presentation. Tomorrow we are going to Kobe and tuesday is Osaka's turn. IKEA gave us Shinkansen-tickets. Shinkansen is a bullet train that travels at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour!
On wednesday we have a whole day for saying good bye and see you later to all our wonderful friends... We have come across many difficult tasks on this trip, but leaving Japan will definetly be the hardest one of all!

Right now we are chilling out in our hotel room, exhausted from a whole weekend of sightseeing and buss riding. We managed to visit 4 temples and 2 gardens and some shopping aswell.
(pictures will be posted later)
Kyoto is built just like an american city with square blocks, so finding your way on a map is no problem. But calculating the distance is more of a problem... a way that looks like it should take 20 min actually takes around 2 hours. That goes for the buss aswell. Yesterday we were taking the buss from the first temple to the rock-garden. The trip took like 1,3 hours!!! It was already dark when we got there and the place was closed, but we all had a really nice nap on the buss, haha.
We went back and had dinner in a restaurant instead.
Thank you William for coming with us to Kyoto! It has been real fun and many laughs =)

In the jacuzzi at the hotel this evening we were talking about how to survive in Japan without knowing japanese. Asking our selves how we have magaged? So what have we learned? First of all you need to show appreciation to your co workers by thanking them for working hard, and then you should show a general interest in the location that you are in.
These frases we have learned by heart and is the "quote of the day"

Otsukare sama desu! (something like "thank you for working hard")
koko wa doko desuka? (where am I?)

That is surely true entreprenourship and about the only usefull japanese we have learned in 8 weeks!

And today we used a new frase aswell.
Oishii desu, arrigato goisamasta (this is delicious, thank you) becouse we have been eating so meny free sampels of sweets today!

Oh yeah, one more thing.
Mamonaku shim misato, shim misato desu. (next shim misato, shim misato)
that is the frase we are looking forward to hear every morning on the train going to IKEA Shin Misato.

Time for bed now. Tomorrow we have new exicting day! First of all we will try to find the station, and then the right shinkansen train and after that our hotel and before 1 pm IKEA kobe! Good we've practised map-reading.