Danny Lee's Composition: A Country I Have Visited

A Country I Have Visited

I still remember the trip to Alpine, Japan. It was from ninth to the sixteenth of June this year. The whole journey took seven hours. While I was on the aeroplane, there was some turbulence. I was frightened as the aeroplane started shaking violently and I thought that we might not make it to Japan. My parents assured me that it was only a turbulence. Once the shaking stopped, I heaved a sign of relief.

When we reached the airport in Japan,we immediately met up with the tour guide,Yu Ren. After that, he told us that we could have our breakfast as our flight was a night flight from 11 pm to 6 am. I dashed off to find a Japanese food stall. I then found a ramen shop and found a vacant table to sit at. I then slurped the ramen noodles so loudly that people nearby looked at me disapprovingly. I was flushed with embarrassment.

The few tourist attractions there were the steep Suicide Cliffs, the rest stop at nearly half of Mount Fuji and the interesting Snow Wall which was high up in the snow-capped mountains that it took an hour's ride up.

The Suicide Cliffs were not within my expectations, because they did not look like people had committed suicide there. However, I noticed that the cliffs were steep and high. There were hawks flying above us in all directions. I was comforted by Yu Ren, our tour guide.He said the hawks were harmless if you did not mess with them.

The rest stop near half of Mount Fuji was scary but fun. I looked down the mountain and I immediately stood back. It was very high in the mountains. There were a lot of people there shopping at the gift shop, taking photographs of the scenery and eating hot and hearty meals.

The last and most interesting tourist attraction was the Snow Wall. The ride took an hour to get up. As I looked around, we were surrounded by snow-capped mountains. As we stepped out of the bus, we immediately went to take photographs at the Snow Wall. The snow was so white that it was hurting my eye. My mother then dug into her handbag and gave me a pair of sunglasses to put on. I wore them and my eyes did not hurt anymore.

On the last day of the tour, we were on our own. We had a free day in Tokyo to shop. I was awed by the shops in the streets in Tokyo. There were games, toys, books and food. All the things were to my satisfaction. But there was a problem, we could not speak Japanese! I then used my handy Japanese Dictionary on my Nintendo DS to translate for us from English to Japanese. At the end of the day, we were all holding a lot of shopping bags of items we had bought.

The best part of my trip was the stay in the hotels. They had nice comfy beds to sleep on, were air-conditioned and had televisions. Luckily, Yu Ren told us that we could watch the FIFA World Cup 2010.

I was excited.When we were boarding our plane back to Singapore, my heart was still reluctant to leave Japan. How I wish I could go back there again in December. It was an enjoyable holiday indeed !

Written By Danny Lee Hao Jun from 5 Endurance