On the weekend before school started, I was invited to go on a trip with the teachers from one of my schools. We got on the bus at 8 and started drinking at half past. I had a hangover already and had only had 3 hours sleep the night before, so I learnt the Japanese for 'hair of the dog'. It has come in handy since then. Anyway, we went to Oita ken, which is in the bottom island of Japan which is full of onsen (hot spring bath houses). On the way we stopped at a toy museum, several temples and other places. We stayed in a really nice hotel that evening and sat up late in one of the male teachers' rooms drinking and talking - it was great fun. On the way back, we visited a geothermal power plant and a 400m long suspension bridge. Everyone was a lot quieter on the way back . . . can't think why :)
All of us. And yes, we had been drinking. We are wearing yukatta, which are basically bathrobes with a tie around the middle.
The next day, leaving the hotel, all the guys and 3 of the women are hungover. Can you guess which women are hungover?
The first course of dinner. I'm not joking. There were 7 courses; I could barely manage 1.
The suspension bridge.
Come on, who doesn't want a room full of buttons. This is at the geothermal power plant. Don't ask me why we went there!
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