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heart break

It's finally time to leave here where I have lived for the past 1 year and 10 months. Being here as a working holiday maker worker, has I have had to face lots of farewells. I hate that. It always makes me so sad and emotional. And it is my turn. I know that lots of people have experienced this feeling but I can't help being emotional.  I loved being,working and living here. I can't thank enough all of the people who I met here. All of you are amazing and inspired me a lot. I have been happy because of all of you guys.


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Relaxing tour to Kami-kouchi in Nagano prefecture

During Golden Week in Japan, my husband and I went to Kami-kochi in Nagano prefecture to have a relaxing time watching beautiful nature.
http://www.kamikochi.or.jp/english/

Kami-kochi is a nationally designated a Special Natural Monument because of its beautiful scenery and high academic educational value such as due to its abundant wild animals wildlife and insects. That's why we had to park our car away from Kami-kochi and ride a public bus to get there in order to prevent protect the place from pollution.

We got off the bus around 6am and started walking along a river where unbelievably transparent and pure water was flowing. It was a perfectly fine day and the high mountains around there looked so magnificent. It was so difficult to put all the huge scenery into one small picture frame that so I took a hundred of pictures.

On the way to the depth of the mountain, we encountered wild ducks and even monkeys! It was the very first time I saw monkeys outside cages or fences! We had lunch at a camping lodge, took a nap on the grass and went back to a hotel around 3pm. We were physically exhausted but felt so happy to be there! The place is now my most favorite place for spending relaxing relaxation time.

04.11.15 Songluo Lake Trail journal- part 2

You may wonder why I carried eggs for hiking… The truth is, we carried much more than eggs, it was a whole set for mutten hotpot, including pot, gas stove, cabbage, instant noodles etc. Back to the eggs, the only luck I got lucky part was we were still at the rest stop, I could wash the egg off and didn't have to get along continue on with it the whole time. My friends helped me carry my stuff and I took a plastic bag filled with the rest of the eggs and some light things. Without my backpack, I looked like I had just done some shopping in Walmat and ended up in the woods out of nowhere. LOL.

This trail is really quite a hard level, especially if you do a round trip in one day. I didn’t do any research, so I had no clue and just went with my foolish bravery. Every time I thought, this must be the hardest section, there was always another one even harder, sometimes we had to use a rope to help us climb up. (Now I can literally feel the sores just by thinking about it.) At about noon, I finally made it to the lake, even though I didn’t look like a hiker at all. Haha. It was really foggy and rained lightly by the lake, we couldn’t take a good rest, but we were still very satisfied with the hotpot. There’s nothing better than eating a hot soup after a long rainy day hike. (Actually there is, a good sleep. But it was no chance there was no chance for that to happen anyway. Haha)
On the way back, our backpacks were much lighter since we consumed most of the foods and water, but our feet were also much heavier. I was so exhausted and wasn’t sure about if I could manage the same trail again. “Could somebody give me a rescure helicopter?”, I shouted out in my head.
The weather became worse and worse, and we had to leave the woods before it got dark, we didn’t have much time to take a rest on the way. My knees were killing me, it took a lot of willpower to take every step. We kept telling ourselves, “almost there! last 30 mins!”, and about 5 more 30 mins went by, we finally saw our cars!!!!!!!! I couldn’t be happier!! Then we drove back to the B&B, the owner was so kind letting kind enough to let us use some bathrooms, and I had the best shower ever!

My feelings of about this trip were so complicated, starting from stuffed, tired, regreted, satisfied, anxious, painful, accomplished to proud. And my legs were like iron rods for the next 3 days. I’m not sure If I would do it again, but I’m really happy that I did and also blissful that I have a bunch of friends could do it with me. We made it!! I’m so proud of us! :D <The end>