Looking Back On Hokkaido
As you read this I am probably sitting at home, gently rocking myself to sleep and muttering curses about futons. Last night I had probably my worst night in Japan sleepwise. For some unknown reason I simply couldn’t fall asleep so this morning I resembled a cross between Madonna and Resident Evil.
For reference, the rest of the posts about Hokkaido can be seen here.
Something rather exciting did arrive in the mail today in the form of a CD full of more photos from Hokkaido. Since I have some spare time, I thought I’d post a few of my favourites and maybe write about some of the things I forgot.
This is Matt and I at the Toya Christmas party. Nate and Rolf came too but since Matt so generously gave them both the Norovirus, they were not in a singing mood. So it came down to us to teach the locals the lyrics of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. As you may already know Matt is a karaoke superstar so he did the singing, and I am a pointing-to-things superstar so I fearlessly indicated which line we were on. That’s teamwork!
I already wrote about Snowmobiling here but I thought I’d post a few more photos that were on the CD. Not much description is needed here, and since a photo is worth a thousand words, everyone must be getting sick of reading by now…
Closest I’ve ever got to driving properly, anyway…
After we went snowmobiling we took the excellent opportunity to go sledging, the ultimate fantasy of any young boy and thus me.
Aah, to be 18 again…
The final group of photographs were taken when we were dragged, kicking and screaming, to the airport. “No Nate, I don’t want to go back to Tokyo because I’m quite enjoying seeing anything other than the colour grey.” Anyway, on the way back we passed the amazing smoking volcano. You may all ooh and aah now, but smoking is bad for your health and can harm your unborn baby mountains.
Well, that’s all for this brief look back on our time in Hokkaido. I hope you’re all enjoying the new year so far. Here at work Matt and I have swapped classes so I’m discovering his best kept secret - namely the students in 1-5 class. They gave us nearly all of the content in English Mistakes 1. I’ll leave you with an epic shot of us volunteers. Cheerio!
please can you stop writing about this i can’t take any more jeleous thoughts
Once again, ditto Mr. Average. I’m seeing nothing but the colour green.
All I see is alot of white and grey… ;)
Mr. Average: You mean you don’t want me to write about HOKKAIDO. You know, the time I went to HOKKAIDO?
Duckers: Get yourself organised and visit then! :)
Leon: Aah…minimalism…