Leo's Blog

Over all field studies was really fun. On the 3rd day I was a risk taker when I did the difficult course at rock climbing. I was caring when my friend was bullied(not that bad) in our room. I was a thinker when we were thinking about what to do in our skit. I didn’t think that field studies will be this fun. It was the best field studies I went to. I wanted it to be longer. We had a really good room and a onsen at the bottom of the hotel. It was great.

I woke up quite slow this day. We put our luggage into the bus before we had breakfast. For breakfast we had small bread with eggs. After breakfast our teachers came into our room and checked if it was clean of not. At 9:30 group b went on the bus and went river cleaning. It was quite dirty. We were sort of just talking and put rubbish in the bag if we find one. After about 40mins we went on the bus and went to the place where group a was doing rock-climbing. They were nearly done and they were quite loud. We were told by the teachers to buy a drink and go to the bath room. After the bathroom we said good bye to the evergreen staff and went n the bus. It was really long from there. I was playing tap tap with my friend but my I pod got out of battery so I didn’t have anything to do. The people in front of me were really annoying and I couldn’t sleep. It was really boring and we stopped 3 times for a bathroom brake and we were aloud to buy gifts so I bought a cheese cake for my mom. It took 6 hours and it was really long. When we were back at school my mom was there so I just went into the car and went home. That was the last day of field studies.

Day 4
I woke up at 6:20 and I went to the onsen by my self. There was no one there and it was really fun and quiet. I went back at to my room and left my stuff and went to my friends room. At 8:00 I went to the lobby and we had break fast. We had french toast and eggs. After breakfast we prepared for the hike and we went on the bus. We were on the bus for about 10 minutes and we were at the bottom of the mountain. We warmed up and we started hiking. It was really difficult. We went up a really bad angled. We stopped a few times and we took a few group photos. When we were at the top we had lunch. At the top we also practiced our skit. After about 30mins we started going down. It was really slippery but it was WAY easer than going up. We sometimes ran and sometimes ran and we were at the bottom. When we were at the bottom we walked for about 10mins and we were there at the parking area. Some people went on the faster bus and when we were waiting we played baseball using pet bottles.When we were back at the hotel we practiced our skit again. After 30mins we had dinner. We had steaks. After dinner we practiced our skit again. We actually changed our skit at the time even we only had 30mins. At 7:30 we went to the lobby and had our party. We were the 4th to do the skit. After all the skits we had chips and drinks and after that we did jeperdy. After jeperdy we went back to our rooms and had our last sleep at the hotel.

Day 3
I woke up at 6:30. It was really warm in the hotel so I slept for a long time. We were going to have breakfast at 8:00 so I went to my friends room and talked with them. At 8:00 I went to the lobby with my friends and we had breakfast. We had bread with eggs and salad. After breakfast we went to a field. It was quite far. At the field we did team building games. We had 4 stations. At station 1 we used a rope. At station 2 we used a mat and went on it. At station 3 we used a stick. At station 4 we used a helmet. When we were done with the team building activities we did games like fruit salad. After the activities we had a BBQ party. We broke up into groups of 10 and we made the food in those groups. We had yakisoba and meat. The meat was really good. The staff gave us onigiris and we fried them. We ate for about 40 minutes and group B(the group I was in) went rock climbing! It was really fun! There were 5 courses and some were hard and some were easy. I went to the most difficult one first. It was so difficult! It was about 15-20m high and when I was done my hands REALLY hurt. After the difficult one I went to another one and I cleared it but my hands did hurt. Over all only 8 people from our grade cleared the difficult one. After the rock climbing we went back to the hotel and we had dinner. We had hamburgs and it was really good. After the really good dinner we had hot air ballooning! It was really fun. But it was really hot in it. But it was really fun and it was my first time to go on one. After the hot air balloon we went back to our rooms and practiced our skit. Day 3 was really fun

Day 2

I woke up at 6:20. We were supposed to be awake at 7:30 so i was really bored. We had breakfast at 7:40 and we ate bread. After breakfast we cleaned out tents and rolled them up and put them away.Then we went canoeing! I went on with Jake and Kento. It was really stressing. I got wet because of the person sitting on the end of the canoe. We did a game in the middle. It was like dodgeball on the canoe. At the last part we did a race. But only our canoe collapsed and I actually swam. I got really wet and I cached a cold. After the canoe accident I changed and we ate lunch.We had burritos. It was really good. After lunch we went mountain biking. It was really fun! We first went up a hill and we after that we went down using a really dangerous road. There were so many rocks on the road so some people fell down. After that we went on a normal road and went up a really long hill. It was really long. Some people just gave up and pushed their bicycle up. After that we just went back. When we were back at the camp sight we loaded our luggage on the bus and we went to the hotel! When we were there teachers gave us the room keys. We got one of the best rooms. It had 2 floors and the top was japanese style. My room group was Ren,Aiki,Jake,Ken,Me so me,Ren and Jake slept on the top and ken and aiki slept on the bottom floor. Our room was really big. We told ken and aiki not to come up to our space. We had a 1 hour free time until dinner. At dinner they served us fried fish and soup. It was really good. We were going to have hot air ballooning but it wasn’t a really good weather so we just had free time. Some people went into the onsen and some people just took a shower and slept.

1st day of field studies. We left School at 7:00 by the bus. In the bus I played with my friends and talked with them. I played tap tap and angry birds on my I pod. I really wanted to go to the bath room so I asked the teacher and we stopped at a drive in. At 1:00 we arrived to Azumino. When we were there the evergreen staff introduced their selfs. There were about 8 people. We ate lunch there. We ate our own pack lunches. I ate 2 onigiri’s and 1 small chicken. I was really cold and it wasn’t really soft. After that we did a treasure hunt(It was like a small hike). We found a small dead hedgehog!! It was really tiring. We went threw bushes and we learned and use compasses. I used a stick and played with my friends. When we were at the middle we found a lost compass. It was the other groups so we stopped and our leader ran up and he gave the compass to the owner(Owner =The group that started  the treasure hunt before our group) . We were back at the camp sight at 5:30 and we had dinner at 6:20.  For dinner we ate meat saws with A LOT of beans in it. After dinner we had a camp fire. We sang songs and said a lot of jokes. At the last part of the camp fire they gave us hot chocolate with marshmallows in it. It was really nice. We slept at 9:20. I was really sleepy so I slept the fastest. Day 1 was a really tiring day.

Hakuba is a place in japan. At 2007, the village has an estimated population of 9,246 and a density of 50.71 persons per km². The total area is 182.34 km². Hakuba was once part of the route used to bring salt and other marine products from the coast.

I’m expecting a really fun time at hakuba. Where going to go mountain biking. Where also going to do rock climbing. I have things that I’m not expecting. I don’t want to do skits and I don’t know if I can sleep. But I think I will have a nice time