Music is love.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 5:47 PM

Heya ppl!!! Back to continue my japan trip posts!

Alright... strap those spectacles to yr eyes and hang on!!!

June 13th (Wednesday) : Touch down in Japan!

Yeap!!! We arrived in Japan at around 7-8 am. We were at Kansai International Airport. (:

After the immigration checks and baggage collections... we proceeded to meet our tour guides! Our adorable guide was "Rumi" haha... She sure is cute with her japan-eng accent. (: Esp. her "prefecture" haha...

Anyways.. after boarding up bus no. 2 (the official handbell girls' bus + Acs homestay's bus), we headed down to Kaiyukan! One of the largest aquarium in the world!

First thing that we did once we left the bus was to touch the hanging elmo on bus no. 1!!! haha! Ahem ahem... back to the topic...

We went up all the way to the 8th floor of the building and walked our way down while looking at all the sea creatures! We saw otters... dolphins... seals... crabs... turtles... fishes...octopus...sharks...stingrays...and the list goes on... haha...

After much photo-taking and camera breakdowns... we gathered again and headed down to one of the shopping malls for lunch! (: We ate this sort of buffet-DIY-cook meal haha... Basically.. we had this pan of hot oil infront of us... and yeap... we just dip our raw food in to cook! Was kind of cool.. but some of the food was well.. .WEIRD... haha... esp. the brocollies! Who ever thought of breaded-brocollies??

Anyways... we had to change into our school uniforms and was then rushed down to Tezukayama High SchooL! (:

Oooo.. did i mention that Lim Zi Qi was my bus partner?? haha... Yeap... we were both either listening to our music... taking photos... or basically... sleeping! haha!

After arriving at Tezukayama High School, we watched the welcome ceremony from the Japanese students! The sort of "guzheng" grp and strings ensemble performed for us. And my oh my!!! They were GOOD! Esp. the strings ensemble!!! they were SUPER precise!! All singaporeans there had their jaws wide open throughout the performance.. haha!

After the speeches... gifts exchange from the principals of Tezukayama High and Acs (B) , We went on a tour around the schooL! Our 2 lovely japanese student-guides gave the handbellers a wonderful tour! (: Thanks a lot! Some of us gave up our school badges to them and yep! another trip on the bus!

P.S: The bus was left for the handbellers Only!!! haha! The homestay boys were dropped off at the school!!! OO yeah! haha!

We then arrived at our hotel!! It was "Osaka Rhiga Royal Hotel" . We dropped off our luggage at our hotel rooms (Zi Qi was my room-mate) and yep! Headed down to Ramada Hotel for an Italian buffet Dinner! (:

Mr Fong said grace and the girls were allowed to take our food first, but guess what? We had to sit on the floor while the boys sat on chairs... hmm... what can i say?? Arent they gentlemen?

After dinner... we headed back to our hotel. We were then allowed to cross the street to one of the popular grocery store brands in Japan, Sunkus! There many of us bought instant noodles, water and SWEETS! haha...

Later that night, the handbellers met up at Christabel, Joyce & Preethi's hotel room for vaspers... Charlene opened with prayer and said out the verses, followed by Lim Xi who shared abt the word (: Christabel then closed us with prayer... and yep!! We all went back to our rooms and it was LIGHTS OUT!

Here are the pictures for Day 2 of the Japan Trip (: