Sunday, May 3, 2009

Okinawa School Trip

From April 19th to the 22nd, my class of 177 boys and girls went on a field trip to Okinawa! We left school at 6:00 in the morning on the 19th, and took a bus to Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Then we flew to Okinawa, and spent the rest of the time touring and visiting the Peace Memorial, the giant Aquarium, and other really cool places.

Our hotel was called, "Moon Beach" because it was on Moon Beach. lol. It was really awesome because Moon Beach is privately owned by Hotel Moon Beach, so we all got to go and swim in the ocean!

I shared a room with Midori and Harumi, my two best friends here. Every day was so fun!
I will upload all of my favorite pictures from that trip.
It only rained in the mornings, and was about 75 or 80 degrees during the day. It would be wonderful to live in Okinawa for a few years. All of the natives are SUPER BROWN skinned because they have lived there for so long, and the weather is always hot and humid and sunny; and it is an island so there is ocean on all sides...



My favorite part of the trip was when we were all in the hotel. Midori was really hyper; and a photographer was coming to take pictures of us, and she didn't want her picture taken so she ran into the closet and slammed the door. The closet door had angular slats on it, so if you go down onto the floor and look up you can see inside, so I angled my camera upward and took a picture at random and it got Midori's eyes!!!
After seeing the picture I laughed so hard I started crying and had to pee. After the bathroom, Harumi and I, one by one, took the same pictures.





After that, we went to a Petting Zoo, and to the Aquarium. I was in the Aquarium and I saw a manta ray, and it had a face that makes it look like it smiles at you! I had no idea!


At the petting zoo, I petted a baby goat!




And then we went to the ocean, (my second time in my life) and I swam in it (for the first time in my life)





Anyway, I have a lot more stories but I will let the pictures speak for themselves because I don't want to type right now.




1 comment:

Moa said...

Hello!
My name is Moa, I'm from Sweden and a Japan Outbound for 09/10. I just have to say that you seem to be having the most awesome exchange ever, and I love your photos! I've been reading your blog for a while, and I just hope that my year in Japan will be as cool.
Bye ^^