Today we got up @ 6h30, breakfast being served @ 7h15.
Before we could leave for today, we had a brief Orientation meeting with all Summercamp members (consisting of 288 campers/42 overseas chiefs and 45 Japanese chiefs) which was quite a big group.
Our Japanese chief / colleague Jiang introducing herself
Our groupmembers
We left the hotel @10h15 and moved on to Kappa Sushi where they serve very nice...
Some like it, some don't, but in the end everyone found something that he/she could appreciate.
Joris' style (say sHHushi)
Kappa Sushi
After our lunch, we drove to Boso-no-Mura, a Japanese scenery of 150 years ago at the Boso-area. We took a walk for about an hour and got on the bus again for a 2hr drive towards Mobara-city. Over there, we have visited the Tanabata-festival or star-festival.
Arrival at Boso-no-Mura
Tanabata-Festival
Once our visit was over, we took the bus again for almost 2,5 hrs and finally arrived at the Shinigawa Prince hotel.
With this magnificent view from the 39th floor, I wish you all 'Oyasumi'.
Who are we? We are a group of seven 14-year old children and one adult who have been given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to Japan for 1 week.
Every 2 years, Yazaki Corporation organises a Summercamp which consists of a mixture between cultural learnings, getting to know other children from Yazaki plants wordwide and share a unique experience with lot's of fun, laughter, friendship and unforgettable moments.
Our journey started on 25th of july in Düsseldorf. After luggage check-in and customs controll, we (Manuela, Sophie, Joris and Domeniek) took off for a 1hr flight towards Frankfurt where we would meet up with Anton and Katherine from Yel-G and Eike and Katharina from S-Y Germany. For the flight from DUS to FRA, everything went well.
Our arrival @ Frankfurt was quite relaxed, the rest of the organisation for the whole group was more like....a mixture of stress, missing children, unclear information,.... but in the end everything worked out fine (thanks to the good help from Lufthansa ground crew).
Anton and Katherine finally arrived as the last children from a group of 80 children (boarding for Narita was already done for about 3/4) and @ 13h50 we took off for an 11hr flight towards Narita, Japan.
We flew in the Airbus 380 -800 which was absolutely FABULOUS! We had never been in a plane so big ( capacity of 555 passengers, 310.000 litres of fuel, 24,1 metres high, 79,8 metres wide), so heavy ( max. 560000kg at lift-off), and couldn't be morE comfortable with 10 seats for 4 people. We arrived at Narita airport @ 7h50.
View upon Japan
View from tail-camera
Sleeping 'beauties'
For our first day we are staying at the Nikko Narita hotel. Friday will be a resting / relaxing day as the journey towards Japan was quite exhausting, especially for those who didn't get enough sleep. We just met up with our Japanese guide Zjiang who will accompany us for the rest of the Summercamp.
Narita airport
Lunch @ Nikko Narita hotel
We wish you all a nice day and send you lots of greetings from Japan. See/write you soon.
