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Nelson's Winter Report April 7, 2006 |
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Hey everybody whats happenin>>
I too must say I am but way overdue***
therefore for this one I'll have the # 6 with
no January and some fries
For January i will do like i always do when i
go to Burger King or some fast-food place>< i order whichever
number and ask for no Mayo (which in this case January is the Mayo). so
skip do dee do ./:./,// . . .
we're into February}}
In february I went snowboarding with my second
host families host brother and host father in Nagano (where they
held the Winter Olympics once... "oh yea that place")
I dont know about y'all but for me it was my first
time and it was a hell of an experience. Maybe it was just the fact
i had never snowboarded before or that i had never seen so much
snow since just once or twice before that, but it was great !! Though
it was only for one day (just a few hours actually) I had enough
time to learn how to snowboard, run into some people (very embarrassing
and scary, knowing that you can possibly kill somebody by running into
them with enough speed/force), and falling a numerous amount of times.
Now that I remember, falling was actually my favorite part. Because when
i would fall, i woiuldnt just fall i would hit these dangerous twists
and turns and flips and tumbles while falling, due to the amount of acceleration
and force that had incorporated itslef within the way I snowboarded.
Well after a good few hours of rolling down the mountain,
it increasingly became warmer and the snow on the mountain began
melting little by little.... this is where i and many others began to
hurt ourselves unwillingly... well the nice and cozy falls that we
had had once upon a time (a few hours beforehand), began feeling as if
falling face first/ butt first on the concrete as opposed to same
fall(s) in a different scenario (say the grass or a mattress/sofa). The
last thing that happen that month was I change to the third and/or
probably final host family.
March/><\
March was actually very fun and probably the best
time ive ever had in my stay here in Japan so far. <Yet it
came with its challenges> In March I became closer and more
comfortable with my new host family and all. . . But around the end of
the month i went on a rotary trip to Kyoto (once the capital of Japan)
and Hiroshima (one of the places the a-bombs were dropped). These three
days or so were filled with fun and joy as we laughed and got to know
each other better as well as the other exchange students from
another district and much, much, more. In Hiroshima we went to the
bombing sight and we saw all the pensive photography and
features of the bombing. But the most appalling thing to me must
have been when many people whom i know and whom ive yet to know, asked
me what did i think about it? was i sad? or what did i feel when i saw
all those terrible pictures and remains?
B+ing a person that usually speaks their mind, it
was quite an ultimatum to dispense all of the feelings that stormed my
mind at that time. So I simply told them that it was very dreadful
and agonizing yet not to forget what befalled in Pearl
Harbor. Even though it was inaccurate and an unpleasant deed
Pearl Harbor shoudnt have taken place either. . . . thereafter no
comment> emphasizing my nostalgia towards their losses while recollecting
the losses the U.S obtained as well. That fragment of the Hiroshima
trip was taunting yet a wake-up call and eye-opener to my true sentiment
towards things. As soon as we finished having the tour of that part of
Hiroshima we navigated to Miyajima in a ferry. At the moment of our
arrival we were quickly rushed to our accomodations to have time to
properly escavate the island and then some. Minutes later we ran out of
the hotel and started to eat *Momijimanju* [the local, well-known
sweets]]. After a wonderful night on the island, we woke up the next
morning and were back on the ferry traveling back to mainland Hiroshima.
To make such a story short we went on the fastest
train in Japan (Shinkansen) and made it to Kyoto. There we ate lunch and
went off to explore a many lot of Temlpes and Japanese-style gardens.
After a long day of adventure in Kyoto we reverted to our accommodations
and ate Japanese-style Cuisine and had our own lil-Karaoke thing in the
dinning hall, allowing us to act-a-fool and be teenagers.
After some hours of Karaoke we were thrown out of
the dinning hall for being so noisy. So being the intrepid-type
teenagers we were, we took the fun to one of the biggest suites and even
sang Happy Birthday to my from Taiwan went the clock struck 12:00.
The trip was staggering yet I learned a few more
things about the "Japanese Culture" as well as of "Me,
Myself, and I".
Well fellow family and friends,
I think it may be safe to say that i have payed my
dues.
So until the next time....
Peace & Love
- Nelson E. Notario RYE 6990 Outbound to Japan
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