Sunday, July 20, 2008

I love my camp kids











My camp kids and I have so much fun together. We have Judo classes together.We go on field trips every week and they always look forward to the end of the week when we have a special event and three kids get to cream a counselor! There's so much more I could say about them, but I would be writing forever.

Field Trip



On Thursday July 3, as I was on my way to an amusement park with my camp kids, we stopped in the park to eat lunch. The park was the perfect place to eat that day because we got a chance to see the cutest little Japanese children. They were all in a line putting on a show. There were drummers, flag people and some of them were even instructing! The children were so disciplined and they all seemed to be the same height. I loved it! On the way to the amusement park I had my eye on all of the Japnese school children and people thinking about how cute and unique they were. Coinsidently, by looking at their expressions, they must have been thinking the same exact things about us Americans.

Kamakura





























In Kamakura I took a bus tour to see ancient temples and shrines, the big Buddah and small Buddahs. Eveything was very historic. I got a chance to go inside the big Buddah for two dollars. It seemed to be very small and dark inside.On the train ride back home, I saw an interesting sign that said women only. Apparently, in Japan, after certain hours women can ride on their own train car so they won't get man handled.

Ebina
















In Ebina, I went to a black sand beach that is developed from some type of volcanic substance. Ebina was great. We didn't stay on the beach too long because it was quite windy and cool so we ended up washing our feet in the family bathroom (which was kind of weird) because we were all bunched up in one small bathroom, washing each others feet. We ended up taking a boat to the other side of the island and made our way into a cave and a few Japanese temples. I saw lots of fried octopus that day and it seemed to be very popular because everywhere it was being sold, we saw these lengthy lines.