Friday, December 23, 2005
outward bound japan
12th to 22th dec: OUTWARD BOUND JAPAN
to serve to strive and not to yield
11th dec: at the airport le. leaving at 11+ for tokyo-narita airport. flight time 6hr50min (i think)
12th dec: arrived in tokyo. board the bus to the nagano base camp. 2 stop overs for 5 mins. total journey time: 6hr 30 min.
woah.. everyone was sleeping on the bus lah. nothing to do except look at scenery and gradually no snow become got snow scenery. there one place v nice. behind snow mountain and lake in front.
FINALLY, arrived at outward bound school (nagano-japan).
opening cermony and the rest of the day juz settling in the new env.
instructors: mamo and yuki, risa and yoshi. and log's shimuken. haha.
our dorm
our bunk
day2: x country ski-ing. 
shuxian and ms lim
haha. it was so fun. budden i always cant get up once i fall down.. not enough arm strength to push myself up with the ski poles. boo. once, i was stuck for like 3 min+ and risa and ms lim had to pull me up. oh man so diu lian. =(
clearing snow from the van (not me, is the instructor)
day3:training expedition (2D1N) trek in the snow with sleighs. haha. i was slacking coz my sleigh was the lightest. reached campsite and went to build toilet.. haha. it was v nice, still got wall around it. at night was damn cold lah. freezing manz. 
4th day: went to climb to the mt manaita plateau. muscle ache again. stomping on the snow was even worse than doing door-to-door leaflets. haha.. the scenery was nice at the top. anw.. after that we juz rushed all the way back to the base camp. yays, got heaters!
5th: solo expedition. this one is to build your own tent and sit in there to rot for dunno how many hours. haha. i brought mp3 along lah (actually not suppose to bring one but who cares) so juz doodle in my book, sleep , eat, drink, go toilet and stone.
6th day: slacking day of preparation for final expedition. oh, we also played some brainless games, thanks to ms lim lah.
7th day: actually suppose to go for final expedition budden snowing too heavily so road block coz they were only clearing main roads. whole day playing cards. haha. the rise of shimuken
8th day: haha.. my bdae yays =) ok. they postpone the final expedition to today. so we're back to pulling and pushing the sleighs to the campsite again. snowing again lah. then the gust of wind blow then all the snowflakes come crashing into your face. sian. keep having to change facing direction. reached campsite at 1130+. omg, we're so fast. haha suppose to reach at 3pm one lorz.. went to build toilet again. so fun and so slack. the instructors so nice treat us to mochi(some sticky rice stuff) and red bean dessert. though it was v sweet budden the mochi was nice
9th day: went to trek up to mt tatsuo. ok, i was slacking at the back again. haha. lazy to pave the way up coz i v slow one. so we reach there in record time. 2hrs and dunno how many mins. obj record leh. haha. then rot up on the mountain to take photo and enjoy the scenery. shimuken hiding in the woods again.
at the top of mt tatsuo
woah sian, then going down i was slacking at the back again, walking v slowly so my grp ask me to go lead lah. so stressed diao coz usually my grp walks v fast so i had to like press on though my legs are breaking. haha, not bad got down in 30 min. yays! 3D2N became 2D1N. coz we're too fast. suppose to finish attacking tatsuo by 4pm budden we're back at 12 pm. haha. so bo pian. they have to let us go back to the heaters again. =)
10th: last day le. went to do the 5km ekiden-the whole grp share 5km. each person only run 500m. phew! haha. not bad leh. i nv stop when running lah. then the obj van will follow behind you to pick you up after you're done. ending point was the japan sea. so nice. the water was greenish blue not like s'pore one. murky colour. then in the bg got snowy mountains. haha. 
went back to the base and slack. in the late afternoon, the village chief came to teach us how to make mochi. the hammer thing so heavy. anw, it tasted like muah chee only that have to add more sugar coz it's tasteless. so packing up stuff and going home le. boo. it was fun there. anw, the instructors sent us to a 24hr mart to shop for stuff. woah, the place was v big something like giant. the shopping queen horrible lorz. spent like $100 over. haha. wenta take the train to tokyo and change another skyliner to narita airport. wah, the seats so cool can turn around one. haha. another round of shopping at the airport. so sian, the whole place is hello kitty, hello kitty and more hello kitty. why no other characters. anw, i figured out the stuff there are not so ex afterall.
back to s'pore. =) haha. miss the food here lorz.
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