Have you ever shout to your friends, “行きましょう！” (translated as let’s go) and start running in a straight line on orchard road? I did it today!
I’ll start from after I’ve meet up with my japanese friends from Shizuoka Gakuen High School, at their hotel, York Hotel.
At first I thought I’m just joining them to walk around in Orchard road, do some shopping with them. In the end, we’re bringing them somewhere else, and we’ve got to plan the trip on the spot. That’s really cool and challenging!
On our side, we got Wei Ni, Hwee Loo, and myself – 3 people. On their side, they are all from our group, Tetsushi san, Junpei san, Yuto san, Masaru san, Takuma san and Naoki san.
Basically our destination is different from the other groups, the other groups’ main objective is to go shopping, or go beach to play or something, our group want to have their lunch for something cheap and unique; thus we go separate ways.
As you know, food at Orchard road are not cheap, we got to find other places. Plan and plan.. we finally conclude the discussion by agreeing to go Chinatown.
We chatted, walked, tried BAGUA, and finally we reach the place where there are many local delights – delicious and very “Singapore” food. Can see they’re very hungry at that time~
So, they got their food, and we treat them with sugar cane drinks, Rojak, Satay, and Beancurd~ Yuto san LOVES spicy food! He eat until face red red still so high ;p and the others can’t really tahan spicy food. It was damn funny to see Masaru san’s change of reaction when he put the Rojak into his mouth… OMG! KAWAII! hahaha. Naoki san and Ito san got face change too xD so funny! They so cute hahaha!
Okay, then we went to take a walk around Chinatown after lunch. Showed them the old buildings and things traditional stuffs sold around here, and explained some Singapore stuffs to them, such as during chinese new year, the chinatown is flooded with people, very beautiful street, trishaw and etc..
They said they understand, I hope they really do understand my stories~ 
We even walked into the Food festival place, it was crowded and there are stalls selling Hokkien food, Cantonese food, and this and that. Later on, we went to a Chinese temple (I forgot what name is that temple!) and walked one round~ showing them chinese stuffs, and there were many people chanting! ;X
Walk and walk~ Then decided to go Clark Quay as they wanted to see Singapore River.
We went for a walk there and took photos! One of them is damn hilarious, we’re standing under the hot sun, which is very hot even for me, but I can stand it, no problem; but they seems to be really suffering under the sun, i think they are not very used to this kind of Summer weather (seriously, the ‘sun’ at that time, is very very hot)
We JUMPED and Wei ni took the photo while we’re in the air. We are not able to get to configure their japanese camera to take multi-shot, but luckily Wei Ni got good timing 
she’s able to capture nicely when we’re in the air LOL
Continue walking~ and we saw the ride beside Singapore River, the one which bounce you high up and drop you down, then stop you in mid air and bounce you high up again.
Yuto san, Masaru san, and Takuma san went to try the ride. It was really fun looking at how they enjoyed the ride! They saw the ride, stopped and see, then very keen to try it ;D Ito san took video of it, I hope he sent me the video together with the pictures when he’s back to Japan! ;D
Time’s reaching soon, thus we hurrily walked back to take MRT.
When we arrived at Orchard Road, there’s a part which freaks me out. Wei Ni and Masaru san went missing! We thought we lost them, oh my god. Ito san and myself, we’re counting the heads..
“一、 二、 三、 四、 五…” (translated as ‘one, two, three, four, five’)
Hwee Loo called Wei Ni and find out that they’re at the ticket machine there. Phew, that’s a relief. hahaha. Scared me!
Then after that, we run back to York Hotel as they are almost late. I lead the way while Wei Ni and Hwee Loo jog behind them to make sure they’re with us, we can’t possibly lost them while running! The whole road is pretty crowded at that time.
We jog to the escalator to get out of the MRT station, then in front got some people who blocked the whole place, we got no choice but to wait until we reach the top, when those people move away, then we can get to run.
It was damn hilarious! We’re jogging in a straight line without planning, we just run a straight line in the middle of Orchard Road, from Orchard MRT Station, all the way to York Hotel!
There’s one part where I made a wrong turn and we ran to a deadend, nonethelessly, there’s stairsway up there. Logically, there should be a stairsway for us to walk up. But somehow it was the other side of the place, on Lucky Plaza.
Time is running short. I asked them whether they want to climb up the so-called-fence thingy, and they show positive and go ahead! I also faster climb up.. They’re even faster than me! Oh my god, I’m old already!! x)
All the way to the top, and start jogging again. The whole journey is damn interesting and funny! Time to time I will turn back and look at them, count the heads and make sure they’re together, and ask them to be careful of the road whenever we crosses a road – I see a row of kawaii japanese boys jogging in a straight line ;D SO CUTEEEEEEEEE~!!
My stamina ran out in the middle of the run, but I hold a responsibility of bringing them back, and they are late, I can’t possibly stop and walk or ask them run by themselves, I push myself and succeed in completing the whole journey!
We reached York Hotel!
We chat with their sensei (teachers) and principal, rested for awhile until Ito san they all went down with their luggage and about to go take the bus which is to bring them to Airport.
We stand in somewhat a circle and talked for awhile, took photos~ aww, so touching scene T.T
They ask me when will I be going to Japan. This made me really upset because during NYP’s turn to go to their school for exchange programme in Shizuoka, I’m having FYP (Final Year Project) and I cannot be excused to go oversea.
I almost cried out when I look at their expression when I tell them I cannot go their school in September. )):
But I tell them in future I will go to Shizuoka and visit them, I hope I really get a chance to do so! They are nice people and this is really a good exchange programme, we not only had it in school, walk around the school, we even have our free time and plan the trip for them and bring them around Singapore.
Although it’s just a short 3 to 4 hours, we had alot of fun! The whole trip is memorable and I’m sure all of us enjoyed it alot! Even Wei Ni and Hwee Loo are glad they came, it was really truly “exchange programme”, also known as “交流会” (Koryukai).
If there’s another chance to interact with them again, I’ll still surely join them! The experience is so precious! Ahh, I want to go visit them in Shizuoka, Japan!
静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！静岡に行きたいですよ！ (translated as ‘I want to go Shizuoka!!’)
Okay, I’ll update the pictures we took once I got them from Wei Ni and Hwee Loo, and from Ito san they all when they’re back in Japan. I’m so gonna miss them!
Last but not least, big big thanks to Hwee Loo and Wei Ni, today will not be as fun if you two were not there. I alone will never be able to plan all these trips and stuffs, and talk to them etc etc.. there are so many to thanks the two of you! ;D Let’s go out again some other day, and hope we can visit them together in Shizuoka, Japan! ;D
今日はとても楽しいです！ (translated as ‘today is very fun!’)
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