Golden Gate Park: Japanese Tea Garden

The Golden Gate Park is something that will take a while to explore, since it's approximately the same size at Central Park in New York. Correct me if I'm wrong... I've already been to the Academy Of Sciences a couple times, so today to celebrate my free day I decided to go somewhere else:

The Japanese Tea Garden. It's a little bit of japanese culture in the middle of a big city. For the first time, I could forget all the loud cars, busy streets and skyscrapers and just enjoy nature. Having never been to Japan, today gave me a small idea of how beautiful it can be. To top it off, the weather today was sunny and there was no wind at all! (I'm laughing at you Finns with your snow and cold weather)

The entrance

Zen garden

Pagoda

Drum bridge

This place has now reached my Top 5 in things I should do in San Francisco. Even though it was quite crowded since it was Columbus Day --the place was full on asian tourists snapping pictures of a tree for five minutes before moving on-- I still managed to enjoy myself. I even sat down for some green tea :3 This place is totally worth the 7 dollars it costs to get inside it.

There were squirrels running around and hopping on trees, lots and lots of coy fish trying to escape the heat of the sun and you could hear birds chirping in the distance. Makes you forget everything and just take everything in. I am definitely going to japan just so I can see if this was all a terrible lie or will I really find this kind of paradise again. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

Coy fish, yay!

For some reason my Macbook won't read the SD card from my camera, so all these pictures were taking with an iPhone… The place was magical, but the phone pictures makes it look boring. Ugh.

On saturday, I finally moved in to my own place. My room in probably 3mx4m in size but that's alright. It's actually quite cozy! I've got my own mini fridge/freezer, microwave and a TV I can watch from my bed. The only problem is that the bathrooms are on the corridor, as is the kitchen. So basically every time I need to use the bathroom or cook something, I need to remember to take my key with me so I don't lock myself out. This is exceptionally difficult during the morning hours, because my brain doesn't have the ability to function correctly to remember to take it with me... Otherwise the neighbors are really quiet... I mean like "not even here" -quiet. I've seen one person leave this place, that's all. The manager told me that there are about 20 rooms, so a lot of people.... but to me it feels like it's just me. Yay for privacy!