The Fuji plight

July, 30th

One of my fears when I came to Japan was that I wouldn't be able to record everything that happened in the form of a blog. Turns out I was exactly right. My blog sort of stopped around week 1 although I do have spotty blog posts ready to be posted relating to single days I thought were worthy to write about right then. I had really hoped to blog about most of the stuff I did, though there was so much I did and because of that I hadn't time enough to write them all down.

Today marks my 6th day left in Japan. I'm both sad and over joyed about the fact that I'll be leaving Canadian farm, all it's oddities and all the misunderstandings that were had there. I'll be heading into Tokyo with my friend Derek on the 2nd who I met at Canadian farm. It's pretty ironic that we're both leaving Japan on the same day with the same airlines even at the same time yet we aren't on the same flight. It would have been a much more comfortable flight if we were traveling together but I guess coincidence wasn't strong enough this time, maybe next trip.

As I write this I'm in the car with Yuuki, Aya, Travis and Derek, we're heading to Fuji san. The big plan is to start our climb at 11:30 at night and arrive at the top at 4:00 in the morning to watch the sun rise over Japan. We're being a little rebellious in doing this considering that the weather reports have foretold rain the past week. As long as the top of fuji isn't all clouds I'll be happy since it's not very interesting looking at pictures within a cloud. I'm not currently very optimistic about my chance at good pictures but even If I come out with a nice group picture I'll be good. Anyways, Fuji san is 3700 meters which is I don't know how many feet but it's alot, maybe 11,000'. Haseyan expects us to be back sometime around lunch on Friday. That's what I told him anyways. I hope our attempt at Fuji works out with little to no rain but that seems like alot to ask for considering the circumstances.