Niseko Adventure~!!!

Firstly, allow me to fix an error in my previous post. When i was talking about moving house i meant to say April, not August, incase you got confused. so thats less than 2 weeks (i move on the 3rd). Anyway....

Saturday morning i got up early (yes, early on a Saturday) at about 6:30 so that we could go to Sapporo station where i met up with all the other exchange students, including the Japanese students leaving for their exchange in July (the outbounders). From there we got on a bus and travelled for about and hour and a half to 2 hours to get to Niseko. The bus ride was fun too! Considering it was full of young people so ofcourse we made it fun!
in case you dont know, Niseko is the best place in Japan for skiing/snowboarding, etc. Its a nice little town but very cold and windy! We got there at about lunch time(ish) and everyone went to their rooms and put their bags and stuff inside, then straight away we all got ready for the slopes! it was about 5 minutes walk away from the lodge we stayed at.



All of us inbounder crowd wanted to do snowboarding, including a couple who had never tried it before. Me and 3 girls from Canada, America and Finland and the Finnish girls hostdad went up on the lift together to the very top!! soo cold and the wind was really strong - PLUS you could hardly see 5 metres infront of you it was so misty (i think thats the word for it)
i actually like the fact that i picked up skiing/snowboarding easy and so i had alot of fun going down the hills!! ofcourse we all stacked it a few times but thats natural! At one point i stopped with my friend to have a break as our legs started to get cramped from the board and my face was facing the bottom of the hill and i was looking up at the top of the hill, i leant back a bit too far and did a flip down the hill, then did another one!! i couldnt stop i just kept flipping it was soooo funny!!! i didnt hurt myself though, it was snowing all day so the slopes were nice and soft - perfect conditions!



We came back at about 5 oclock (time went so quick) and had dinner together. Then we went back and all went to the same room having fun, listening to music, and eating ALOT of junk food thanks to one girl who stocked her bag up at the convenience store before we left.
The Japanese and female inbounders went to onsen after that. As you all know im so not into that, i stayed in the hotel with Minami (i mentioned her in the other post, her name means 'South' remember) and when they got back we went for a walk through the town. Originally our plan was to do karaoke but we didnt make it in time so we bought some hot coffees/hot chocolates from a vending machine and coincidentally fireworks started!! we could see that they were being let off from the skii hills and we were all pretty close to them, it was really good!

Back at the hotel we all planned to stay up all night....i think we made it to about 2:30/3ish before everyone gave up and went to sleep.
The next morning however (sunday), i was the only person who wasnt woken up so i missed breakfast. What a good start. So i got my friends to walk with me to a convenience store and bought my own breakfast. It was mildly healthy :)

Everyone packed up and we left at about 10:30ish and went back home to Sapporo. We all started out strong at the start of the bus ride but in the end everyone was sleeping. I got home and crashed on my bed and slept for another 2 hours aswell!

Today (monday) is a holiday and its meant to signify the start of Spring, even though its almost April. But it was snowing yet again today! im beginning to think it wont stop....
Also, Spring break starts Thursday and tomorrow and Wednesday i only go to school for 2 periods. Im pretty much already on holidays!
I dont know what i will do on spring break yet (apart from moving families), but it goes for about 2 weeks and i go back to school April 8th.

Ok so that was my awesome weekend ina nutshell - alot of fun and laughter.

Ok now for my photos which i have put on photobucket, its the first time ive used it and have no idea how to attach it to my blog, SO, i will list the URLs for you to click on. So far i have a Winter folder and a Spring folder, even though the spring folder looks like the winter folder due tot he snow hahaha

winter pictures - http://s939.photobucket.com/albums/ad234/dylanmahoney_2010/Winter/

spring pictures (so far) - http://s939.photobucket.com/albums/ad234/dylanmahoney_2010/Spring/