5-18 Journal
How’s it going, everyone? Are you having a good week? Has anything exciting happened?
Last week was very busy for me. My mother and my younger sister came to Osaka to visit me. We went to Nara on Thursday to go sightseeing. On the way to Nara we met many elementary school students on the Kintetsu-Nara train. They were going to Nara for a field trip.

In Nara, we went to Kofuku-ji first, and then we went to Todai-ji. Both were very beautiful temples. At Todai-ji, we saw the big Buddha and struggled through the pillar with a hole in it. Have you ever done that? When I climbed through many people clapped because they thought I was too big and couldn’t do it.

Next we walked to Kasuga-taisha. The forest was very quiet and relaxing and the shrine was very interesting. Last we fed the deer in Nara park. I got one deer to stand on two legs. Another deer bit my sister! She was ok, but she didn’t like the deer. Overall it was a very fun trip.

Questions:
1.　Climbing through the hole in Todai-ji gives one year of good luck. Do you know any other luck challenges?
2.　Do you know any actions that give you bad luck?