Welcome party

Yesterday was my welcome party. People from AIESEC Kyoto gathered to say "hi!" to me (special thanks to Natsuki for setting the whole thing up), and we went for okonomiyaki.

I never had those before, so I didn't quite know what to expect. Basically, you order something that resembles a very thick pancake with a filling you like (pork, squid, etc) and you have a hot tray in front of you to keep it warm all the time. The food was really nice and I hope everybody had as much fun as I did.
It seems that I'm only eating and working in here, doesn't it? Well, tomorrow is my first day off and I'm going to go do some sightseeing. I divided Kyoto into four parts (north, south, east, west) and I'm planning to slowly go and explore every part. Of course, not only tomorrow, but over the next six months as well ;). And tomorrow is Jidai Matsuri - if it won't rain, the streets of Kyoto will be full of people dressed in traditional clothes from every japanese era. I really want to see people dressed in the Heian era aristocracy clothes; I can't imagine how can someone walk in those things (sometimes the 12-layer kimonos called juunihitoe weight to 10 kilos or sometimes even more).

My boss gave me a lot of tickets to many different places today, so now I have to spend some time with the dictionary to know where I'm supposed to go... 0_o