Our second day was great fun. Andrew took us to the beach where we met up with Heather. It was ok as far as Japanese beaches go, sandy and big enough, but with plenty of concrete, view of some industrial stuff, and over the hill from a nuclear power plant! It was great to swim though, and play a bit of frisbee. We had an inflatable raft I tried to manuever unsuccessfully, I had to abandon ship and just pull it behind me as I swam to return it to Andrew after I nearly floated over the buoys. Oh well. It was so fun to hang out at the beach, we can't do that too easily in Osaka.
That night was the fireworks festival, so a group of us met up at some other teacher's apartment for pizza and I had to get help getting my yukata tied on. How such things were ever invented I'll never understand, it's way too complicated! After the fireworks I changed back into normal clothes as I didn't have it tied tight enough and was in danger of coming undone. The fireworks were beautiful over lake Shinji, and it was pleasantly not that crowded. Granted, this was the smaller display as the big show is on Sunday night, but if this was in Osaka it would have been absolute madness. And in typical Japanese fashion, as soon as the fireworks finished nearly everyone stood up and headed out, so we enjoyed hanging out by the lake for a bit more before checking out the exciting Matsue nightlife! It was nice though to be able to walk to all of the bars and not worry about a train or anything. There were a bunch of wet-behind-the-ears new JETs in town as well, so we hung out with them. Only in Japan for 3 days! So cute, I remember what I was like my first week :-)
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