Stupid Mountain
I'll get to that in a moment, now for updates!
The Welcome Party and Scavenger Hunt for the Newbies was a success! We all got to do karaoke after the food and it was quite fun!
English Camp was fun. We went to a very nice place in Hitachi Ota with the girls, all first year high school students, and met up with four exchange students and one extra student. The three girl exchange students were from Germany, Vietnam, and Malaysia. The male exchane student was from Brazil. The extra student was a Japanese guy who had been an exchange student in Brazil with the Brazilian boys family and his host family was the Brazilian boys host family while he was in Japan. All of the exchange students and the extra student spoke perfect English! The area was in the mountains and there were trees and animals and elementary school students (they were having their own camp at the same time).
Then from Friday to Sunday, Megan and I went to Yokohama and Kamakura. Friday I went to see my lady doc and Megan wandered around a shopping area near that station. Then we went to Yokohama and saw Landmark Tower, rode the Ferris Wheel nearby, had pie, and then went to Chigasaki and had dinner with Fumkiko-sensei before heading back to her home. Then on Saturday Megan, Tabou, his little sister Chie, her housemate Hime, and I, went to Kamakura. We saw Hase-dera, the Daibutsu, Hachimangu, and then walked along the shopping street Komachi-dori after Tabou, Chie, and Hime had gone to go to club practice and work respectively. Then we went back to Fumiko-sensei's house for dinner. Sunday we went to the mall in Chigasaki and then Megan and I started our way back.
The 30th and 31st I temporarially lost my mind and decided to climb Mt. Fuji again.
NEVER. AGAIN. under those circumstances.
If I EVER do it again I'll be starting at 10am and climbing to the Fujisan Hotel a little after the 8th station, and then sleeping there until 2am and then climbing the rest of the way up to the top for the dawn. I did do much better this time than last time though. I got much farther so I'm happy with my success. It's the altitude sickness that stops me. This year it stopped six of the 18 climbers. One even threw up. It also misted rained this year and that was a bit annoying. Going down I hurt my knees and so decided to take this one guys offer of riding a horse the last hour to the fifth station/pick up area. Another girl agreed to go with me. Best $50 I spent ever.
Today school started back up again. The sports festival is this Saturday so it's mostly practice this week and very few classes. But I don't mind. There's an ALT meeting on Friday and I get a day off Monday for it. The 15th is a holiday so that's a three day weekend. I might just drop everything and go to some random place nearby and see what's to be seen. There's a possible four day weekend the weekend after if I take Monday the 22nd off as Tuesday is the holiday. In October a bunch of the girls and I may go to Kyoto. We have to talk about it Friday at the meeting. And that's about it!
The Welcome Party and Scavenger Hunt for the Newbies was a success! We all got to do karaoke after the food and it was quite fun!
English Camp was fun. We went to a very nice place in Hitachi Ota with the girls, all first year high school students, and met up with four exchange students and one extra student. The three girl exchange students were from Germany, Vietnam, and Malaysia. The male exchane student was from Brazil. The extra student was a Japanese guy who had been an exchange student in Brazil with the Brazilian boys family and his host family was the Brazilian boys host family while he was in Japan. All of the exchange students and the extra student spoke perfect English! The area was in the mountains and there were trees and animals and elementary school students (they were having their own camp at the same time).
Then from Friday to Sunday, Megan and I went to Yokohama and Kamakura. Friday I went to see my lady doc and Megan wandered around a shopping area near that station. Then we went to Yokohama and saw Landmark Tower, rode the Ferris Wheel nearby, had pie, and then went to Chigasaki and had dinner with Fumkiko-sensei before heading back to her home. Then on Saturday Megan, Tabou, his little sister Chie, her housemate Hime, and I, went to Kamakura. We saw Hase-dera, the Daibutsu, Hachimangu, and then walked along the shopping street Komachi-dori after Tabou, Chie, and Hime had gone to go to club practice and work respectively. Then we went back to Fumiko-sensei's house for dinner. Sunday we went to the mall in Chigasaki and then Megan and I started our way back.
The 30th and 31st I temporarially lost my mind and decided to climb Mt. Fuji again.
NEVER. AGAIN. under those circumstances.
If I EVER do it again I'll be starting at 10am and climbing to the Fujisan Hotel a little after the 8th station, and then sleeping there until 2am and then climbing the rest of the way up to the top for the dawn. I did do much better this time than last time though. I got much farther so I'm happy with my success. It's the altitude sickness that stops me. This year it stopped six of the 18 climbers. One even threw up. It also misted rained this year and that was a bit annoying. Going down I hurt my knees and so decided to take this one guys offer of riding a horse the last hour to the fifth station/pick up area. Another girl agreed to go with me. Best $50 I spent ever.
Today school started back up again. The sports festival is this Saturday so it's mostly practice this week and very few classes. But I don't mind. There's an ALT meeting on Friday and I get a day off Monday for it. The 15th is a holiday so that's a three day weekend. I might just drop everything and go to some random place nearby and see what's to be seen. There's a possible four day weekend the weekend after if I take Monday the 22nd off as Tuesday is the holiday. In October a bunch of the girls and I may go to Kyoto. We have to talk about it Friday at the meeting. And that's about it!