SO! It's been WAY too long, that i can say for sure.
This entry will be full of pictures, if I have enough energy to put them up that is haha. At least most of them will go on face (got over a 1000, so maybe about half will go on face haha).
Anyway, I'm sorry for not having been blogging lately!! I really hope you guys still read my blog, even though I suck at keeping it updated. I can't go too much in details about all the things I have been doing, because I simply can't remember them in that great detail, haha, sucks. I know.
So, at Monday the 15th in this month (week as well) I woke up at 4 AM. I had to catch a bus in order to get to the airport in time. Damn that was early. I went to the bus and rode it alone till the airport, not much really happened in that time. I did think a little about what the hell and where i was going to go when I arrived at the airport, I mean, no one told me where to meet haha. Luckily my bus had driven behind the dorms bus, so when I arrived I met a lot of my friends. Good timing.
We went into the airport etc. and didn't really do much in the meantime. We were all tired and excited at the same time. Our first stop would be Tokyo, Haneda airport where we would be an hour and then change to a flight that would take us to Nagasaki. In Nagasaki we would stay two days and then go to Kyoto for two days and stay half a day in Nara before going back to Sapporo.
We landed in Nagasaki and was taking straight to things we had to see. I can honestly not remember what we saw first or all the things we did see, but we saw some churches and such. It was super nice and they were so beautiful, we weren't allowed to take any pictures on the insides, unfortunately. They were as pretty and amazing on the inside as on the outside. The next day we went to the Atomic Bomb museum and like that. After that we had the rest of the day to go see some things in our groups and, well, shop. Haha.
We went to go eat lunch at Nagasaki station and then we would have to catch a bus that would take us to the ferry which we would have to take to get to the island where there was a church we were going to see. So we took purikura and rushed for the bus afterwards, since we weren't really allowed to the purikura etc. When we reached the station the bus was almost gone and we all rushed big time, we got there in time though. After about 10 minutes in the bus, we found out that it was the wrong bus though, since it took us up a mountain instead of towards the shore. So we got off the bus on the middle of the mountain and walked all the way down the mountain, without really knowing where to go etc. we found out though, but time was running out and we ran a whole freaking bridge - a VERY long one. When we reached the other side one of the girls from my group ran out to see if she could get us a taxi, even though we was 5 and another girl called a girl in the other group that was also going to the ferry and told her that we MIGHT not be able to be there in time. The girl who ran for a taxi got us one though and we pressed together in the back seat, all 4 of us, while she was riding shotgun. We got there in time and had a lot of fun on the ferry as well. When we reached the church it was so beautiful, it was amazing. The priest even allowed us to take pictures on the inside, even though I have to say that they don't really do it justice.
One of the nights in the hotel in Nagasaki a guy who survived the A-bombing also came and told his story, even though I didn't understand it all I did indeed get the big picture and I understood what he felt, what he saw and so on. It was really touching to hear about and really out of your imagination. Surviving and atomic bomb. Seeing it. It's all so surreal.
Here's some of the many pictures from Nagasaki;
And that was only SOME pictures from Nagasaki, yes, I took waaaay too many. It's sick, haha. I hope you enjoy them though.
After being in Nagasaki for two days we went to Kyoto. We flew to Osaka airport and rode a bus to Kyoto. In Kyoto we didn't go to the hotel until at night again, we went straight out to look at temples etc. We went to the Gold Pavilion that was amazingly beautiful and we visited an old temple where you could go inside and hear about what the different rooms had been used to etc. it was very exciting and very beautiful etc. it was legit just absolutely amazing! Words can't describe it. I was surprised to find out that in the temples they had things under the floor that would squeak every time you took a step so that it would be impossible for anyone to sneak in. That was an amazing thought. It was also fun to see how different it was from old Danish castles etc. I personally prefer these temples, they're so much more cultural, pretty and just exciting. Japan's history is just 10 times more exciting than Denmark's, in my opinion.
Well, we visited a lot of places and I bought two fortune slips. I got the best one you can get both times! My friend also got the best one, one of the times, but then she got a bad one. So I was really surprised and happy for that. You just put money in a jar and then put your hand in the other jar and take a piece of paper. Then you unfold it and read it. So yea.
The next day we had the whole day to go visit places we wanted to see etc. so that's what we did. There isn't really much to tell from that, I think the pictures does a pretty good job them self.
And here's some of the pictures from Kyoto;
One of the temples we visited was the temple of cows if I remember right. The thing about the cow statues is, that if you pet their head and then your own you'll become more clever, it's like them sharing their wisdom with you. So of course we did it on almost all the cows there.
Then our last day, which was basically just half a day, in Nara.
We went to the deer park where we saw a national treasure and a daibutsu, which is basically just an amazingly big Buddha, it's amazing - for more information - google it.
We saw the national treasure, the daibutsu and then we fed the deers. You could buy something to feed them with and when you bought it they just basically got wild. I got surrounded by these oh so cute deers and they started jumping me. I was so surprised, because, I mean, they're taller than me when they stand on their back legs haha. So they did that and the ones from behind that couldn't get food started biting me all over and I was so surprised that I almost dropped the food. It didn't really hurt, not at all, it was just very surprising haha. They were cute though and I petted them a lot, they basically ignored you when you didn't have food.
After that we went to Kansai airport and flew back to Sapporo.
Here's some pictures from Nara;
So yea, that was my school trip!
At the school trip I wrote a little with him as well. In fact, I've been writing or talking (in real life) with him everyday up to today from Thursday the 18th. You can bet that made me happy haha.
Well, since the school trip I've been busy and that will not stop now, I can say that without a doubt. We have debate everyday after school the rest of this month, because we have a practice match this Saturday and we have the Tournament soon (30th and 31th) so it'll be an awful time haha. At least I'm going with AFS to Asahikawa on the 25th, so I'm off school that day. Thank God. I could probably need that at that time, haha.
So, yesterday I went out with Por-chan to buy some boots and a CD that he recommended me. I know, obsessed - but no, we have the exact same music taste and that's just AWESOME!
But yea, I went to buy those things and did meet and talk a little with him, but then we went to meet Eden and Museon who was doing some Halloween shopping for a part at their school the next day. So we met up with them, did the shopping with them, went to eat ice cream etc. It was all a lot of fun - as always! Eden and I shared an amazingly tasty ice cream, it was amazing!!
Today I went karaoke with Mikko and Misato, it was a lot of fun. Mikko and I did some shopping beforehand and then Misato joined us, we went to karaoke for 3 and a half hour, then did some more shopping and went home. We're all still exhausted from the school trip, since we basically didn't sleep much for 5 days haha.
I'll be going to bed now, will come with some more detailed entries later on, as I normally do and I promise to be better from now on haha, please be patient with me!!
GOOD NIGHT! Thanks for reading and....
Take care, I love you all!!
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