We arrived at the hotel at around 11 pm at night, and all of us were dead tired. Most of us also hadn't gotten any sleep for the past 24 hours, so we were ready to crash. So that's what I'm going to do. Here's the night view from our hotel.
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Saturday, July 30, 2016
On Our Way!
We're all at Denver International Airport! We survived security, and we haven't lost anybody yet! I can't find the exact plane that we're going to fly in to go to Los Angeles (LAX), but here's a picture of the type of plane we're going to fly in.
Thursday, July 28, 2016
About two more days!
The trip is right around the corner! I'm so excited for the trip!
On Wednesday we came together for one more last minute meeting. Unfortunately, not everyone could make it, but those who did come shared quite a few laughs. We're supposed to do a dance for the opening ceremony when we arrive in Ueda. We tried to pick an 'American' song, and we chose the YMCA. Now, we couldn't do a simple dance. We had to go and make it complicated (not that I'm complaining - much). Since not everyone could make it, we filmed it so we could give the other delegates an idea of what we had in mind. We recorded, then watched it. And laughed. We...to put it nicely, were not the best at synchronized dancing.
But, our last meeting before the trip was full of laughs. One delegate had just returned from Canada and he decided to show us his Canadian accent. That brought a round of laughs. And while we were practicing our dance, a couple of the boys decided it would be a great idea to try to do handstands, and somehow that led into carrying one of them? It was definitely amusing. Not to forget that we were practicing in the backyard which only had a fence separating it, and a busy road behind it. (Well, there was the sidewalk and some grass as well, but, you get the point) We attracted quite a few second glances.
Hopefully I'll be able to post while in Japan, but if I don't, the Broomfield Sister Cities Facebook page will update regularly.
Mate ne! (See you later!)
On Wednesday we came together for one more last minute meeting. Unfortunately, not everyone could make it, but those who did come shared quite a few laughs. We're supposed to do a dance for the opening ceremony when we arrive in Ueda. We tried to pick an 'American' song, and we chose the YMCA. Now, we couldn't do a simple dance. We had to go and make it complicated (not that I'm complaining - much). Since not everyone could make it, we filmed it so we could give the other delegates an idea of what we had in mind. We recorded, then watched it. And laughed. We...to put it nicely, were not the best at synchronized dancing.
But, our last meeting before the trip was full of laughs. One delegate had just returned from Canada and he decided to show us his Canadian accent. That brought a round of laughs. And while we were practicing our dance, a couple of the boys decided it would be a great idea to try to do handstands, and somehow that led into carrying one of them? It was definitely amusing. Not to forget that we were practicing in the backyard which only had a fence separating it, and a busy road behind it. (Well, there was the sidewalk and some grass as well, but, you get the point) We attracted quite a few second glances.
Hopefully I'll be able to post while in Japan, but if I don't, the Broomfield Sister Cities Facebook page will update regularly.
Mate ne! (See you later!)
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
10 more days!
We've done quite a lot since the last time I've posted something.
If you're interested, you can go look at the facebook to see pictures of what we've done.
I'm really excited for the upcoming trip! It's almost here!
- Went down to Sakura Square during the cherry blossom festival and ate Japanese food
- Ate at Sakura house and ordered our food in Japanese
- Finished Japanese classes
- Worked on our dance for the opening ceremony (we can safely come to the conclusion that we are not skilled at this - we didn't get very far - seriously, like five seconds of the YMCA)
- Made Inari sushi, and since we had too much rice, we created a 'snowman' (or riceman in this case) named Frank-san
- And even saw a small Ken-do demonstration
If you're interested, you can go look at the facebook to see pictures of what we've done.
I'm really excited for the upcoming trip! It's almost here!
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