The First Batch Of PICTURES: Scenery of Tottori within Walking Distance

Finally! The pictures have arrived! I kept postponing this to “tomorrow”, and then decided that today is tomorrow. :P


So this post as well as the next few posts will focus on pictures. Today I'll show where I live! If you want to see specific pictures in a following blog post, just ask me!


Let's start with the most important picture:

A lot of people didn't believe this was really my university' mascot. I'm hoping this proves it.
In Belgium, all school/university logos are like this:

No wonder no one believed me.

Many were also curious why I chose Tottori University. It's a small university, not well known in Europe. There were two main reasons: 1. I could freely take on courses 2. The environment had beautiful, rich nature. The mascot might have also played a role in deciding, but let's go with these two.
Taking on courses: check. I enrolled in a few courses.The Japanese level is still too high for me. I think one of the lectures is about plants. Let's hope I figure out the rest too.
Rich nature: mountains! I love mountains! That's the first thing I noticed upon arrival - mountains everywhere! Covered in green, thick forest, seemingly floating above the clouds...

So let's show off some mountains! Click on a picture to enlarge it.

Pretty much mountains all around. Except for the beach part. The mountains slowly fade into hills, and then there's suddenly the Japanese sea!

 

 

Next, a few random trees and shrine scenery. I love nature. The first time visiting a shrine, I didn't bring my camera. However, yesterday I went to the forest! With my camera! That's material for a different post.

Took this one whilst riding my bike. :P

 

To end with, here I am with my classmates ^_^

 
So in today's post I only covered scenery within walking distance from my house. A few were shot by Marcos (link leads his Portugese blog).
Note: all pictures are unedited.