Well its been a busy few weeks since the last post. To begin with Golden week was pretty much sorted out and I went to Kagoshima with the Yamamoto family, it was a great holiday. We treked up mountains, had a barbeque, went to onnsen and saw some incredible views. I also got to meet Yoko Yamamoto`s cousin and her family, who were very nice people and spoke great english, they also had a daughter my age so it nice to talk to someone of the same age.
On the first day we went for a walk after arriving at mountain center and walked to the top (although it wasn`t steep, just long) and although it was great I unfortunatly had an extremely bad stomach ache just as we reached the top. Regrettably as we were at the top it was an extremely long walk (to be honest it was more of a hobble) to the nearest toilet, some 30 minutes away. Lets just say I have never been more excited to go to toilet. After that incident we drove to the campsite and took our luggage into our cottage. It was interesting to see the Japanese camping style, compared with the english. There were virtually no caravans or campervans in sight and due to the crowd of misplaced tents there was virtually no ground. Fortunatly our accomodation was, well, more accomodating in a nice quiet area surrounded by trees and the other cottages. Japanese camping is more like a quick fix and reduction of the english size. On the night we went to the local onnsen and had a tasy barbequed meal (japanese style)、which consisted of multiple things, most I knew, but with the added excitement of bowel.
The next day we had free time in the morning, for which myself, Emiko, Chikako and Rise spent playing card games and badminton, with the addition of Yoko. We then went to the onnsen, overlooking a pretty cool view, but I was slightly off put by the sulpher that coursed through the air. The barbeque on the night consisted of Curry Rice and a mixture of other things, but I can`t seem to remember what (maybe I had too much bowel).
The final day we went for a big walk up a big mountain, as I was more genki (feeling good) this day I decided to run most of the way with Rise (who lets just say made her best attempt). This mountain was abit steeper, but i found it to be more fun because it was a challenge. Once we reached the partial top area, there were 3 seperated ways to go, so off I went up one and was treated to a great view of the lake below and its surrounding mountains that gleamed with the glaring sun. After we rolled down the mountain (true in a way) we got back into the car for a drive to a nice posh restaurant for lunch and I had chicken and it was the best chicken i`ve had in Japan.
To finish off the day we had a long drive back and a stop off at the local Ramen shop for some yummy Ramen then a short drive back home.
And that was the first holiday.
The second holiday which was on the weekend I spent with Yukari and we went to Hause Tein Bosch (I`ll check the spelling later) . But I will have to write about that another time as I am going to the gym now and then having tea at the church. Also after the enjoyment of the holiday came the worst days ever, but thats got to wait maybe a day or two till I write about....
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