Kanazawa spring field trip

*cracks fingers

Just because I feel like it, this is going to be a long photo post on AKP’s spring field trip which we took to what looked like pretty rural places in Japan – Fukui and Kanazawa.

We went by bus.

Thanks to people like David who got the flu but still die die wanna come for the trip because it’s paid for…

…Prindle made us all wear masks to avoid contamination.

Invisible Woman wtf.

Our first stop was in Fukui prefecture, at a paper-making factory!

There, we got to each make a piece of handmade paper, press dried flowers and other stuff into it, and personalise everything.

The dried stuff you decorate with.

Me making the paper. You fill the tray with the pulpy paper, and shake evenly to drain the water out. Then you lay flowers or whatever on the surface and pour more pulp on top. (god my mouth is big)

I think Angie looks damn cute here 😀

This is Angela’s halfway. Her end product is even prettier because she put pink spots behind the flowers and a little glitter and the result is fantastic.

This is mine. I have no decorating talent at all. I tried to make a sun with some yellow dye but it just looks like I spilled orange juice on it. The three blue spots were supposed to be clouds. The red feathery things are still a mystery to me.

I’m not sure what this is, but I think it was a model of what a traditional paper factory looked like.

My hand got itchy and i touched one of these papier mache statues. This know-it-all saw and she scolded me, “Don’t touch! Haven’t you ever been to a museum before? Hohoho.” wtf. Well, we weren’t in one!

In the “musuem” wtf.

Then we went to a famous Buddhist temple. I don’t know what it was called either, because when they told us on the bus, I was asleep. After that it was too cold for me to really care and all i wanted to do was get back on the bus.

It was really pretty though.

The whole ceiling was made up of painted panels of birds and flowers. Only 5 were not – 2 lions, 2 koi and 1 squirrel.

Christine, me and Andrea.

To my relief, we finally got to the hotel and had another banquet dinner:D But the food this time so-so only la.

Here’s a video of Danny doing the gayest rendition ever of Livin’ La Vida Loca. I love it! wtf. But then he jumps off the stage and tries to seduce me wtf.

Me and Christine in yukata.

Shit I had the worst experience with the yukata ever! I was wearing it and er shitting wtf. Everyone tied their sashes in front but i refused and tied mine at the back because I remember reading in Memoirs of a Geisha that only prostitutes tied theirs at the front for easy removal wtf.

So when i was in the toilet, my sash fucking sank into the toilet bowl without me knowing and I sat there happily shitting wtf. Then when I got up, water sprayed everywhere on my ankles and the floor and even on the wall and door wtf.

I was wondering where the hell the water came from, cause I wipe damn clean wan ok. And I thought the toilet had a leaky pipe wtf.

Only when I went to shower and took off my yukata that I saw half a foot of my sash was wet and I realised it had dipped into the toilet bowl and sprayed the water all over me. Fuck this shit.

I forgot my contact lens case. T_T So I had to put my contact lenses in the ash tray and cover it with a cup wtf.

What we had for breakfast. Tired of always either missing breakfast or having to eat it fast, we woke up damn early this time. And we were the only ones there next to the teachers wtf.

Christine didn’t have shades wtf.

Checking out of our room wtf.

We visited a samurai’s residence.

Very pretty right! I would wanna live here too, if not for how cold it would be in the winter.

The altar.

Iron stirrups. I wonder why they use iron, the horse already has to hold up the saddle and the rider some more have to be weighed down even more with iron stirrups when they could have used leather.

Then we went to a national park, supposed to be one of the top 3 most beautiful gardens in Japan. Dunno what it’s called (sleeping again).

I like this pic!

Angela, Christine, David, me, Danielle, Trey and Andrea.

More pictures of the pretty garden.

Tree-huggers wtf.

Me and Angela outside a…. castle. I know la I’m hopeless!

Little did I know that stupid Trey was posing next to me wtf.

Sorry, didn’t resize this cos I thought our poses were funny. Here’s me stabbing Trey with an invisible sword wtf. Entrance of the castle.

The moat around the castle. Angela asked if there were crocodiles in it HAHAHAHAHHA. I told her I know everything about castles cos I build them out of sand quite often. wtf.