Mount Fuji Climbing

School semesters have been very interesting and excited although I am in foreign environments with foreign languages. But nevertheless I really had good time here.

Weather is getting warmer and warmer now, from 7 degC on April to 30 degC now. It is more and more like Malaysia and Singapore now except for the humidity.

With the change of season, the Mount Fuji entrance will be opened soon and of course I will be going to climb it! =)
Morgan will be joining us for the climb and I will be having my first experience in the most famous mountain Mt. Fuji! I will be going on 9 July tentatively. So let's pray for good weather! I also hope to settle my camera before this.



All the best and hope I could get a fairly nice camera!

Hiking + Ohanami

We went to Hiking today at Ikeda City with Ms. Usunami.
She invited us to go for O-hanami (An activity of Japan at which people gather together to enjoy the scenery of Full-blooming sakuras) on Tuesday.

I woke up 7am this morning and started to prepare the breakfast for this morning. We ate instant noodles + vegetables + eggs. A simple yet filling breakfast (but not healthy! T_T) then we went to Ms. Usunami's house.

We walked to Ishibashi and took train to Ikeda for 150 Yen. After we reached the place, we took a 15 -minute walk to Satsukiyama (五月山) [I had a tendency to say "Gogatsuyama" Five month mountain ^_^).

After a few minute walk, I saw a magnificent view of sakura! =)

Following after that, we went on a climb to the mountain and listen to different cultures of Japan Religion such as a stone which will protect children (so-called earth god, お地蔵様), culture of daimoji (大文字) when we walked there. When we reached almost the top, we saw a magnificent view of Ikeda city and Nishikawa City.

We proceeded to the mountain and saw many sakuras blooming, and eventually came to a hanging bridge (吊橋,つりばし) and Ms. Usunami took photo for us.

After that we bumped into a botanical garden at which there is many colourful flowers blooming:

Our trip ended here and we proceeded to our lunch with Ms. Usunami, we order a bento set for 1200 Yen. We wanted to pay for Ms. Usunami but she refused and we thanked her for her kindness and she really treat us as mother to son. So I will not bless her by the means of 'giving back' her something, but will treat it as a son giving his mother present. So with this heart, we bought fruits for the dinner. She invited us to her home for dinner with 3 other friends: Wilman, Carlos & Du Hang.

We had fun time over there and I really got very full.

I managed to study Japanese today and I felt very fulfilled today. Tomorrow I will need to go back to school to settle student account matters, library card and subject choosing.
Will be a great day tomorrow and I am looking forward to it!

Franco

* My photos of today: