Breakfast! Everyone was super tired because it felt like we didn't have sufficient sleep. It was the standard hotel breakfast with bread, cereal, etc...

We took a long bus ride to Shimabara to visit the Disaster Memorial Hall(Gamadas Dome.) It was a museum that was dedicated to Mount Unzen-Fugen(sounds cool right?) and gave information about the formation and eruptions of it. We got to experience the volcanic eruption with some re-enactment. We entered a theatre that displayed graphics of the volcanic eruption. We had to stand and the ground moved as if we were experiencing the eruption. Heat was emitted as well.

We took a ferry ride to Kumamoto. There a couple of our students were mistaken for locals. And old man in a suit came up to them and started jabbering away in JAPANESE. The boys were very amused and stumped at the same time so all they did was nod. The man kept talking for a long time. Yeap Zhong labelled him a "spammer". ^^V

After a very short tour, we moved on to our next destination which was the Kumamoto Castle. It is a castle that has been well-kept and it was re-built in 1960 but several wooden buildings remain the same. There were dudes in samurai get-ups however, we were too shy to take pictures with them. Only our very spontaneous teachers, MR JACKY TAN and MR KELVIN CHAN took a picture beside the samurai. We took off our shoes and took a tour in the exhibition of the castle.

Lunch ! We had Shabu-Shabu  , the portion was too large .

We had an 1 1/2 hour ride up to Mount Aso.We trekked up 1.5 km of the whole journey , on our way we saw different types of land formations. We came across todifferent types of mountain : the young and the old mountain . The young mountain was a dome shape while the old mountain was in a zig-zag shape.
It was due to the stage of erosion process. We travelled up to the crater of the volcano.We experienced the cooling weather due to the high alititude which led to low pressure. We saw the iron compound II which is the green substance that produce sulfur oxide gas. That is the active volcano. Beside it is the dominant volcano which erupted 15 years ago.

We travelled down to Aso-no-tsukasa Villa Park hotel whereby we had our hot spring experience. We had our dinner in the banquet dinner room. The muslims had seafood and scallops included. We had beef and pork. It was DELICIOUS to the max.

Next, is HOT SPRING!!! OMG! >< It is a very very embarass experience, really very!!  After dinner, we had some rest and prepared everything we need for the hot spring. Then everyone went to different room - girls to girls room/ boys to boys room. We , the girls, were deciding who should bath first and who are not going to the hot spring, and etc. 6 girls decided to go, and yup, though it is super duper embarassed but i think that it is all worth it. The degree of the water is somehow 30 plus degree? but it is warm to me and so i enjoy taking it, hahas! This is my second time taking a hot spring bath, but today hot spring is really embarassing....

Please look forward to our next post! :D



PS:
chingping: mummy&daddy, imissyou!!:D i think i am able to call home using my friends' handphone because theirs' is free of charge!! hahas. NIGHT! :D

yuqing: Erm hehe, Dear parents of mine, I lost my HOT PINK pants at the previous hotel. Erm sorry.





P.S. JORDAN says he LOVES and misses his MUM :D

"GREENDALE, signs off."

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