KARUIZAWA! Beautiful~

So this past weekend, we were scheduled to go to Karuizawa. I had no clue what to expect but I knew once we got closer. The mountains! It was so gorgeous. Quite long but check out pictures/vids below! We went to 4 main places. The whole group was so tire after the visits. The day after we went to an outlet mall in Karuizawa. Great fun times...

The residence hall we were staying during our time at Karuizawa!

Dinner!

So each time someone breaks a rule, their whole group gets punished. This is group 4, they had to perform for us at dinner time. They did Head, shoulders, knees and toes in Japanese. Honestly, I was confused on what they were singing. You be the judge!

That night we also lit firecrackers. Check this one out. It was called poop firecracker. 0.o

Team #3! Leader: Atsunori, Sub-leader: Ami! Then
there's me, Lavy, Song, Saori, Yon, Yukiko!

All the students from Bunkyo Gakuin University with the study abroad students.

First location: White streamfall.

Our program Director Jeff Kamakahi and me!

SOBA Making: We got to see how soba was made. It's a kind of noodle. Because my group ventured off too far with sight seeing while another group watched the soba making (taking turns) we were not able to see how they made the soba we ate.

 

The soba dish. You have to dip the noodles in a cup of soy sauce (left)
and then eat it. Same for the tempura at the right corner. It was very good. There was
eggplant, pumpkin, mushroom, green beans and shrimp tempura.

@3rd Location. Check out video for the name! >.<

So this is a very big rock that that a lot of coins on it. I stuck one on too!

Silly and Daring.

The heavens and earth.

4th Location: Taleisin

When we got there, we were so amazed by the fishies. They were so entertaining to watch. Flying carp...

It's funny because we kept talking to them like they were puppies. -.-

Kia and Ger.

We saw a white swan among all the ducks. It was beautiful.

Entrance.

The way to the outlet mall.

Lunch at a Korean Restaurant. Had a pretty bad hangover and wanted
some pho so badly. Only thing that could compensate for pho at
that moment when you're in Japan. 

How their seats looked.

Afterwards, we left the outlet mall and our 3hours drive back to Tokyo.