Yuki

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**Weather:** sunny
 * Day 1:** **March 23rd**

I woke up at 3:50, ate breakfast, and went down to the lobby to wait for Chloe’s car. Her car came to pick me up, and brought us to school. We got to school at 5 and took the school bus to the airport. The bus drove us to the wrong terminal at first so we had to wait for the same bus to come again to take us to the right terminal, terminal 2. We checked our bags in (Wayne met his friend’s dad, Chloe, Erica, Melody, Naomie and I was an M&m beanie bag toy while we headed towards the bathroom) and walked towards our terminal. On the flight, I sat next to Melody and Erica. And we played with our make up. We took pictures of our selves, and never got tired of it. Melody named my stuffed animal ‘fumchickens’ and Erica gave it artificial respiration. We were on the plane for 4 hours, giggling our way to Kunming.

Before we road our second fight, we checked out our luggage, checked it in again, and met a ‘Melody disaster’. Apparently, she lost her ticked while passing her luggage threw the metal detector, and was panicking. (Yeah, and okay, so basically Melody is blaming ME for this whole thing 'cause she says she was so 'worried' about me, when I got in trouble with the people who were trying to take my stuff. But anyway.)We had to wait for a while, and then our plane left without Melody. I felt sick on the plane so I talked with Eric and Naomie for a while, and fell asleep. When I was in the middle of a nice dream, Erica shook me and woke me up to tell me that we were at the airport.

At the airport, none of our luggage came back to us as it was stuck with Melody in the previous airport. Since we found out that our luggage was not coming until the next day, we left for lunch with our tour guide. After lunch, we went to take a walk at the Black Dragon Pool Park, and took some pictures of the scenery. The walk lasted for about an hour, and then we walked all the way to the village and to the village center. We had 40 minutes of free time. Erica, Chloe, Melody, Naomie and I went to look for dresses with Ms. Perks. T bought 2 dresses that look alike to Chloe’s. After shopping, we went for dinner, and then we left for the orchestra. We heard old men playing the ancient instruments. The man that showed us a traditional play was really cute, so Melody, Erica and I were laughing for a while. Soon after, we walked back to our hotel, got our luggage, were assigned a room (115), and our first day finished.

**Day 2: March 24th** **Weather:** Sunny again

Our morning call rang at 6:50. I woke up, tidied up my room which I thought was completely clean, and went to the canteen to eat breakfast. Then I packed my bag (Mr.Sein came to check our room and commented that it was a complete mess, not to mention he took many pictures of it. It was perfectly clean for me.) and headed towards the bus at 8, that drove us to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. We were supposed to ride the cable car but we ended up waiting for 3 hours just to get into the queue and get called. While we waited, Chloe and I took pictures, we all munched on some snacks, and we played around killing time. Before we went on the cable car, since we had more than enough time, we decided to eat lunch first.

As we finally got on the cable car, we got to look at the fantastic scenery. I rode the car with Erica, Chloe, Melody, Naomie and Jimmy. In the cable car, we took pictures of each other, and the scenery. We saw huge mountains covered with snow at parts, and we took a picture of that as well. When we got off the cable car I was completely fine, but as the girls and I walked to the bathroom, and I waited for them outside, I started to feel sick, and felt my head banging. I had altitude sickness. Chloe and Daniel were really helpful, and they stayed back and walked with me slowly up the stairs. Chloe was feeling sick herself as she caught a cold, so she had to go slowly anyway. I tried quite hard, and, although I didn’t make it to the top, I made it to the 4th stair up. I lied on the snow, took a picture, and walked down again, feeling sick, but satisfied. Chloe and I sat down by the bottom of the stairs, and waited for the others to come back down again, and also for the sickness to pass. When the guide told us to line in the queue for the cable car we were one of the first ones to line up. We got to the bottom( I was sleeping the whole ride down), and we saw Jamie helping Kana who also had altitude sickness. I felt awful too, so I knew exactly how she felt. When I started to feel better, everyone came back down as well.

After the cable car, we went on the bus that took us to the local school. There, we had a presentation, where Naomie, Jimmy, some students from the local school, and myself performed. We were then broken up into groups of 2, and 4 students from the local school took us on a tour through their school. Chloe and I went around with 4 guys ( forgot their names), one in the student council, one who is spectacularly good at basketball, one who is extremely pale and one that was very nice who wore glasses. We walked around, chatted about our selves, and met up with everyone else at the basket ball court. In the end we took a group photo and left for our bus, as we were running out of time.

Dinner was nice, though I couldn’t eat much. After dinner we had 2 hours of free time, so Chlo, Mel, Dan, Sal, Jeff, Joe, Mr.Sein and I went shopping. The 2 hours was amazing; we went from shop to shop, Melody pulling my hand and literally trying to pull it off. I bought lots of bracelets, Chloe bought a bag, sal bought a souvenir, dan bought Chloe a necklace, and Mr. Sein bought himself a ring. Jeff had a dramatic fall down(as usual) when Mr.Sein shot him with a plastic gun from one of the shops. The 2 hours passed by like it was 2 minutes, and all of us headed back to the hotel laughing or buts off. That night was the best :)

**Day3: March 25****th** **Weather:** Still Sunny

The morning call rings at 7:30. I yawn and stretch in my bed, then jump out to open the curtains fully, and try to wake my sleeping beauty room mate up. I tidy up the stuff around my bed, then go to eat breakfast with Chloe who just woke up. Break fast was as usual. Back in our room, I packed my suitcase up so that we can leave our hotel. Sunscreen, check. Make-up kit, check. Wet wipes, check. Wallet and camera, double check. Everything in my bag, I am ready to go. I roll my suitcase to the lobby, and hung out with some friends there.

We walked to the bus afterwards; on the bus I find out that we are on the vehicle for 2 hours until we reach the starting point of our hike up the Tiger Leaping Gorge. ‘Urgh..’ I moan. Bus rides aren’t my favorite. On the bus, Erica, Naomie and Melody ask for a mirror at the same time. I had out two mirrors that I had, and I give them my make-up pouch so they can figure out where the things are them selves. I hear them chatting but my brain insists to sleep, so I do. Soon (it’s actually 2 hours but it feels like 10 minutes) Chloe wakes me up and I get off the bus, wondering if I am going to survive the 15km hike.

The hike was awful. It was awful. It was really really extremely awfully awful. Everyone was out of breath after 20 minutes since we started walking, and our muscles ached. Erica, Makoto, Tim, Justin, Jimmy and I were the leading group(who left the others behind :P) who reached the lunch table first. We hiked for about 2 or 3 hours before we got to the Naxi Family’s home. We walked uphill for the whole 2- 3 hours, our pants sandy and our faces hot and sweaty. We had about one and a half hours of rest, then we started hiking again. The second half of the hiking was even worse, all very tired, and out of breath. Naomie was our official counter of the day, counting how many bends we had left, starting from the 28th. Even though she lost count after a while, we got up to the top safely. Then we went down hill. This was even worse than uphill for me. I was freaked out the whole time we went down hill, slipping and sliding at parts. At last, when I got to out hotel( more like a log house) I was exhausted. 　 There, Chloe and I found a puppy. I named it Mouche, Jeff named it Fur-balls, and Jordan named it Andy, and its mother Allen. He has the worst naming sense ever. Our night was fantastic (except for the shower we had to take in the dark); we had dinner, danced around the bonfire, met a girl named Nadine who comes from SAS Sh, and had a long sleep after our hard day. Room: 103

**Day4: March 26th** **Weather:** Sunny and Sunny and more Sun

7:00 my i-pod beeps. No morning call today. I start sleeping again. 7:15, I realized that I really had to wake up. I tried to stand up. Ouch. I can’t stand up. That’s weird. I tried again. Somewhere still ached. I sat down to investigate which part of my body hurts. Just as I thought; my knees hurt. And they really ached. By then I was sure it was going to be a tough day. I struggled to stand up, and I made my way to the bathroom to wash my face. I woke Chloe up, and went down for breakfast. Chloe and I seated ourselves on the table where Tim and Ms. Perks sat. After breakfast, Chloe and I had to clean up our room, which was a mess as usual. It took quite a while till it was clean, but we managed to make it look like before (at least we thought it looked like before. Except for the garbage :P). We took our bags, and started hiking again.

Hiking down hill was a pain. Nina was kind enough to fetch me a stick that was just the rite height for me. Melody stayed by my side in the beginning, and she carried around a twig that was shaped like the letter ‘Y’ which she called ‘Yuki’s Symbol’. Mel and the tour guide helped me in the first half of the hike, when my knee hurt the most. After a few hours, we stopped for a break, and Ms. Perks lent me one of her knee pads. Then we changed the order of our groups. Our group started 3rd, and Erica helped me all the way till we got to the bottom. She held my hand down all the slippery parts, and I can’t thank her more for helping me. Mr. Sein carried my bag down as well. On the way Mr. Sein said, “On these trips, u find out who your real friends are”. Right on, Mr. Sein.

When we got down to the bottom, I was so relieved. Lunch tasted nice, though I didn’t eat much. I was nibbling off bits of the pancake-ish, bread-ish thing, when my knee started to ache again. So, I decided to take a walk outside to refresh myself. After that, we took a group photo, and rode onto a small bus. On the bus there were: Erica, Chloe, Tim, Salomon, Daniel, Joe, Ken, Naomie and me. Ken was talking about a If-there-were-a-Chinese-Super-Here situation. He mentioned “shooting noodles out of his wrist” 3 times, and Naomie, Erica, Mel and I still remember his funniest quote ever, “You go to jail, BAD BOY!!”. After we got back, we had an hour of free time, and then we went to the internet café for 2 hours. When we got back to our hotel, the girls got together and chatted through the night. Lights off, ‘night girls.

**Day 5: March 27th** **Weather:** Cloudy and pretty cold.. brr

Back in our old hotel, we were assigned a new room last night; room 2115. In the morning when we went to eat breakfast, Mr. Sein and Ms. Perks were unhappy, because we kept and American lady awake. Apparently, she was complaining about the noise we made, so all the girls went to her to apologize. After that, we pulled our luggage to the bus and headed off to our starting point of the day’s cycling. I borrowed a blue bicycle. Eric and I were worried because we haven’t ridden a bike for a really long time.

In the beginning, I had to get used to the bike. My riding skills were terrible, and my bike was very wobbly and unstable, but I managed to pull off. During cycling, Wayne was kind enough to stay behind and chat with me. He told me that he goes cycling a lot in Shanghai with Kai and Tim and stuff, so I figured he was a good rider. Still, he stayed behind and rode slowly in my pace and helped me out. Thanks Wayne. On the way, the blister in my thumb broke, which really hurt. But except for that, my knees were pretty good. Ms. Perks was complaining that her bum hurts, and I couldn’t help but laugh. The hour we cycled felt like 10 minutes.

Our finishing point was at the Baisha village. It was a pretty mysterious place. We looked around the Mural, and saw ancient (I think) buildings and pictures of the people in the village in the old times. Brian (and parts of his body) was always in my pictures, so I got angry at him, and planned a revenge plot which was to take lots of pictures of him and annoy him with Chloe..which didn’t really work out. After that we had lunch in the village. Chase, Brian, Mr. Sein and I went to see this old 86 year-old doctor who gave us some herbs labeled ‘healthy tea’. First, Mr. Sein introduced himself being from Holland, and then the doctor thought all 4 of us were from Holland. After that, when the doctor started to examine me, I told him I was from Japan, then he thought Brian was from Japan as well. His memory is apparently not too good. We didn’t have much time, so we had to thank him and leave him. We left for the bus, and headed off to the airport.

Our first plane was very fast, but we had to wait for 2 hours in the Kunming Airport. First, the girls and I went to KFC to buy our dinner. Then I found a nice sofa for myself to sit in and read my book. Soon I fell asleep. When I woke up again, it was an hour later. Then I played card games with Ken, Jordan, Jimmy, Chase and Toby to kill time. Jordan kept winning in poker, and I played even though I didn’t really know the rules. When I got tired of card games, I walked around to find myself a nice comfy seat once again. Justin was nice enough to offer me a seat so I sat down and started reading again. We had an award ceremony before we left, and Chloe and I got the shopaholic, and the messiest room award x)

Our flight was the most tiring flight ever. Ken and I were bored to death, so we killed time chatting on about many things. Soon I got tired of sitting, so I took small walks to the bathroom (though I didn’t go in) and back. Ken and I asked for like, 10 cups of water, and I had to ask Brian to get us some as well. Erica claimed herself as being ‘the gift from god’, and I forgot the reason why. After the flight, we got our luggage back, and we road the school bus back to school. I was fast asleep since it was past 11 o’clock. My dad and his driver were waiting at the school gate to pick me and Chloe up. The 5 days of this trip went by quicker than ever.

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