I Survived the First Day of Camp!

Hi everyone!  Guess what?  I survived the first day of summer camp!  I am extremely tired, and am hoping the coming days go a little smoother than today, but we did it!

Here's some updates on what I have been up to since my last post:

This weekend was amazing!  Japan is a really cool place to be.  Friday night we went out to a sushi restaurant where each table was seated along a conveyor belt.  You could choose different types of sushi directly from the belt, or you could order (via a computer screen in the booth) whatever kind of sushi you wanted.  There were tons of options!  When the item you ordered was ready, it would be added to the conveyor belt under a special bowl so no one else would take it, and shortly before it arrived at your table, the computer screen would ding and show you what item of yours was about to arrive.  Each plate only costs about 100 yen, which is the equivalent of $1.  When we were finished eating, we pushed a button on the screen for someone to come prepare our check (based off of how many plates we had.  Different colored plates meant different price ranges).  The sushi I ate here was all Nigiri, meaning it was just the meat on top of a chunk of rice.  The kinds I tried were: shrimp, sweet shrimp, octopus, salmon with cheese, and marinated tuna.  My two favorites were the regular shrimp and the octopus.  That was the extent of my Friday evening activities.  Here are some pictures of the food we ate at the sushi restaurant.

On Saturday morning, we woke up and left a little after 9AM to head towards a train station to go to Yokohama, which is the second largest city in Japan (after Tokyo).  This was our second time using the train system by ourselves, and we ended up on a train that stopped at every station on the way to Yokohama, so it took much longer than it needed to, but we made it there without getting lost!  While in Yokohama we explored a shopping mall called World Porters, ate curry at a sweet Hawaiian restaurant (see pictures below), viewed the city from the top of Marine Tower, explored a very large Chinatown (see pictures below), and ate at a Hard Rock Café.  We arrived back to base around 11PM, but we were all exhausted!

 

On Sunday, we slept in some and then headed to a beach in Zushi.  It was the perfect afternoon to spend at the beach relaxing before heading back to base to finish preparations for the first day of camp!  Here are some pictures from our trip to the beach.

Be jealous of my awesome tan lines! :)

I’m really looking forward to this week, which is the first week of Camp!  I am working with 2 other Camp Adventure counselors in a room of up to 30 kindergarteners and first graders, meaning very few of them have experienced Camp before.  There is also two staff members who work in the center year-round in the room with us.  The first week has been a truly awesome experience, and I look forward to the weeks to come!  Have a fantastic week!

Love,

- Becky