Yesterday I had a great time. I had a normal morning doing what I always do. Around noon I left to meet Masami a girl whom sent me an e-mail about a week ago saying she wanted to get together. I have never met someone through the internet before so it was kind of odd for me. It was the same situation for her also. We were to meet at Marutamachi station and then hit the town. She lives near Osaka but came to visit Kyoto to meet with me. We met around 1 o' clock at the station and wandered out onto the street. I figured we would just talk for awhile and then be on our way. She just wanted to practice her English with me. I was right and wrong. We walked here and there and went to several resturants throughout the day. We ended up spending almost 9 hours together walking and talking. We talked about this and that and the other thing. I found out she likes art, but hasn't done any recently. Maybe next time we get together we can draw, she needs to re-ignite that passion for art. I can see she truly likes to paint and draw make ceramics and so forth. Her job makes it difficult to do that though. I hope she wasn't put off by my eternally aimless wandering. As I mentioned early on in the day I generally don't make detailed plans, just general ones. For example the activities for our day together were 1. Meet her 2. Go someplace 3. Get some coffee or something. That was the depth of my plans. I think in order to create a memorable day something needs to go alittle awry. First off I couldn't find the shop I was thinking of going to. Then it started to rain, we got alittle lost on the way back to the subway station. If everything had gone according to plan it wouldn't have been nearly as much fun. Her English skills are pretty good, as she mentioned she doesn't like to sit and study the grammar, but she does need to work on that some. She is very understandable and has a good vocabulary. When there were words she couldn't think of Japanese worked well to fill it in, but I wanted to stick to English mostly because thats why she came in the first place, not for me to practice on her. Certainly a day to remember. She wants to get together again. We are going to try to go to Byoudoin. That should be fun.