Churching... or templing?

Yesterday I got a free day to see the Jidai Matsuri, but the weather forecast said that there will be showers (from this day on I will belive in the Japanese weather forecast. When they say there will be showers you feel like you're under a god damn waterfall.) so it was postponed to today. Luckily my boss is a nice person, so she let me out for two hours so I could see the festival today.
This is me with some guy from the Heian period. He and his friends were standing in a queue, waiting for their turn to join the parade, so I came up to them and asked if I could take a picture with him. He was quite flustered - appearently he didn't meet so many gaijin women travelling alone and chatting up strangers in Japanese.

Yesterday, instead of watching the Jidai matsuri I went for something my dear friend Ania calls "churching". But instead of churches, there were shrines and temples, so I really have no idea how to call it. I don't know why, but I just like to visit places like that - I can't say I've been somewhere unless I've seen a temple there ;P. So I went to see the Kitanotenmangu shrine - the high school exams are coming soon, so there were a lot of teenagers praying for good results.

After performing my touristy duty, I met up with three guys from Kyoto Daigaku and we went to something called PechaKucha Night. In Kobe. That was one little detail that the boys conveniently forgot to tell me about, but nevertheless I had fun! Check out this PechaKucha thing, it's realy worth participating in.