Dear Deer, Great Buddha and Tears!

All 20 of us were luckily able to get on the same bus for Kyoto Station where students could get about 45-minute lunch time during which GTS obtained bullet train tickets from Kyoto to Nagoya on the we leave on 7/24! (Our special bullet train will leave at 10am on Thursday 7/24 and get to Nagoya around 11am. Everyone can get a coupon for a drink (soft drink or tiny bottle of the wine). While one student tried to get a bottle of drink, we missed a train. In the next train for Nara, GTS got acquainted with a couple college students who might be able to become a good friend of students of our group. Giant Buddha, as usual, waited for us while a couple of students almost missed the opportunity to meet him! Some students fed deer in the park and the temple along the way from Giand Bell, Giant Buddha Hall, February Hall, March Hall, April Hall of Todaiji-temple to Kasuga Grand Shrine via Wakakusa mountain walk. We lost one student right before getting the Kintetsu Nara Station and missed several trains while searching the lost student. After almost 2 hours, we decided to leave for Kyoto. Upon arrival in Kyoto Station, we got a phone call that the student reached the wrong train station (JR) in Nara from which the student must get on the train for Kyoto alone. This is another lesson everyone must call GTS as soon as realizing being lost!!! The weather was perfect, everyone got exhausted as expected!!