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turtlebaiq · 4 years

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Holidays went wrong when you are on budget, but worth to try.

It has been a long time since I wrote my last post, but now it’s not about how you achieve your academic carries anymore, cuz I just graduated yeayyyy! Congratulations to myself though.

Anyway, in this section, I’ll share you some funny experiences during my short visit to Japan. Yas, it’s Japan, the country that I dreamt of since I was a child.

So, why I ended up in this place? It is because I made a stupid promise to my friends for visiting Japan one day,exactly after I finish my study -and one fine day, suddenly they sued my promise. I was in a very difficult situation, I mean I am no longer scholar, run out of money, also end of study means no more supply from my scholarship institution. In some points, I thought why I didn’t do that earlier so I shouldn’t be this desperate. Well there’s no way out, only god knows how much I needed the money.

At that momment I tried my best to figure out where else I invested my money at. I mean, who the hell borrowed my money but haven’t given it back yet. Well well well, lucky me, I got the money from transferring my room to the new tenant, so I got my deposit. Yeay. And the adventures begun.

Getting close to our departure date, 2 of my friends invented a drama. It’s our fault though, we took everything easily about our fancy but actually not really fancy holiday. from the visa problem, money, inn and many things.

An hour before our arival to the Inn, We almost be the bum near by the airport cuz the payment couldn’t be processed. I was so furious and curious at the same time. Why this kind of small thing happens, again. After checking my balance, well I had inadequate balance lol, so asked my friend to send me 100 bucks to make sure that the money can be withdrawn. And yes, as you expected we finally have a nice sleep and sweet dream in that inn.

Just in case you guys wanna have a recommendation for holiday, this place is totally my top notch option to stay. It’s called Tatami house machiya.

We really had the beautiful nights in Osaka until we decided to go to Tokyo.

Well, FYI, as a tourist it’s better to buy a JR Pass for traveling accros Japan Island, why? It’s more efficient and effective to reach one place to another across Japan. For example, 2 days in Tokyo and move again to Kyoto, then go to Nagoya and so on, you better hold JR pass. It’s kind of magic card, when everybody is struggling with their transportation card, we just showing off with our JR pass and immaculately get in the rail line without any problem hihihi. About the price.. when you act like you are rich holding that card, basically you just trading your money almost $ 200-400 USD. Pricy isn’t it? But I bet it’s worthier than you expect.

JR pass covers all of transportation with JR logo. Most of JR logo are for train include the famous and the coolest bullet train in Japan, aka shinkansen. But for some subways, they are not covered. Don’t worry, you guys still can pay it directly to the ticket station or on the bus, it’s only 200 Yen in Osaka and Kyoto for adults, and 220 Yen in Tokyo and surrounding.

Back to the previous topic. It’s so nice to know Japan is very welcome with google map application which makes it more accessible and understandable. Since in some areas you need to download a specific app to access their location, such as in Korea, people there do not use Gmaps. How stressful I was, luckily I have friend there and she helped me a lot. Well anyway, I may overlap talking about this. If you plan to stroll around South Korea, you better download Kakao Map, Line, or anything relate to them. My friend said they are very useful.

Using gmaps for our travel to Tokyo is such the coolest thing I have ever done. You know it right, gmaps will always show us the fastest alternative to get to the place we’d like to reach. From Kyoto, Gmaps recommended me to take platform 12, taking the Osaka shinkansen line called Nozomi to reach Tokyo. It’s crazy, you can reach about 460 km within 2 hours by train with only 2 stops, that’s insane.

Well, I am not that sharp to read the map and I think my geospatial skill was totally damaging in this journey. I didn’t want to waste my time by looking for the direction back and forth like stupid tourists, I better ASK a simple question to the officers.

For those who haven’t visited Japan, the people are goddamn nice and helpful, they will never ever give you a wrong instructions. Note my words. I won’t tell you twice. That’s the lesson for myself as well. And for everyone, obviously.

When asking the guys in a uniform, confirming weather my platform is right or wrong, he said that we couldn’t take platform no 12. He probably said the reason why, but their English was not clear enough to understand so I only caught the important information. The point was, instead of waiting in platform 12, we better stand in platform 11.

When heading up to the platform, we found that the train has already waited the passengers in platform 12. we checked again the information board this platform (12) was exactly the train for tokyo. While another side of platform showed the information that we didn’t understand, like the name of trains and etc. we even asked the one who stand beside the train, and he still convinced that we should take the train in platform no 11. Well, my logic denied that cuz in the information board there’s no information that the train in platform 11 would go to Tokyo. Also, my google map didn’t say so. It’s kinda weird. Without showing any guilty, we entered shinkansen in platform no. 12.

As we got in, we were amzed by its interior design, and how fast that train reach on place to another, even sharing the fun facts about shinkansen with my friends. We totally looked like the people from ancient era who mesmerised moderation of Japan transportation. I bet you wouldn’t want to see our faces. Suddenly 2 of my friends texted us in a group showing the picture that the train we took was not suppose to be used by JR holder. My friend who sat beside me was freaking out, and started panicking. We tried to roll up our memory, remembering that the information we saw that time about 2 TRAINS that will not be covered by JR pass. Yes, we got the wrong train, it was Nozomi train. If they know that we got in without any tickets they’ll kick our ass off out of the train and pay around $180 USD. Which is a lot. And we were broke as hell.

I don’t want that happen cause I had no idea where to get more money that time. My friend started looking for alternative while freaking out. She started blamming everything, include herself, or probably myself or I dunno, since I am having such a terrible memory, or she probably disappointed of herself because didn’t recall such a thing. She thought Japan is so strict and we gonna end up our holiday that day, while me trying to calming her by saying there must be a solution. And yes, I remained to find the possible solution by talking to the officer that we genuinely got the wrong train and we were sorry for that. I thought, even though people in Japan are very strict, they must be very considerate, at least.

When the lady officer came across my car (aisle), I held her hand then told her that we got the wrong train, cuz the Gmaps showed this train is going to Tokyo. She stopped for a momment, taking up a pocket book and a piece of paper and took a note. I didn’t know what to do, I assumed she wrote the fines as the distance we reached already. Well at least we shouldn’t pay that much, but still we run out of money. I wanted to cry, where to get the money?

My guess was wrong anyway, in a very limited English skill, she tried to explain that I could get off in the next station and just change the train to the next platform. The reason why she took a long time to write it’s because she still figuring out writing romaji from japanese alphabets. I am soooo touched. I almost crying like a baby at that momment. I wasn’t so sure why I was so emotional. Was it because her kindness or because I didn’t have to pay a certain amount of money. Probably both.

Once again, she gave us a note to take the fastest train to reach Tokyo. In the same platform. But our stupid stubborn brain didn’t work properly. It’s just because taking a little bit of time to wait HIKARI train (the one that had been recommended by the lady officer) we took another train, called it KODAMA. And we just knew that HIKARI is the second fastest bullet train after Nozomi and Mizuo (I swear to god, we didn’t even know whether we were stupid, innocent, or stubborn). The last one, obviously, Kodama. We need more than 3 hours to reach Tokyo. Can you imagine what we did in 3 hours in a train without food? Nothing. Probably when I know the brain is an app, I’ll try to use it.

I’ll continue my writing soon. Bye.

Osaka 5th February 2020

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sientityof255-blog · 7 years

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“The Beach Trip” by Cindy Maharani

I had a fun day today. I went to the beach with my family. It was my first time I had gone to the beach in North Carolina. We woke up early and drove for two hours until we reached the beach. There was a lot of traffic.We finally found a parking spot and walked to the sand. It was pretty outside and the beach was very crowded. There were a lot of kids playing.

My dad set up a big umbrella. I laid my towel out on the sand. My mom helped me put on sunscreen. I didn’t want to get sunburned.I walked down to the water and stuck my toes in. The water was warm. It felt good. I walked backto my family and told my brother to come swimming with me.

“I don’t want to,” he said.

“Why not?” I asked.

“I’m afraid of sharks,” he said.

“hahaha... Shark only exist in the deep sea, there is no shark on the beach, “I said.

“Really? Yeay!!” He immediately pulled me to the beach.

After 10 minutes of swimming, we were bored and hungry. Mother bought us a salad. We didn’t like salad, but we kept eating because we were very hungry. While we were eating, i saw many people crowded on the beach. We want to go there, but mother told us to finish our food first.

We quickly finished our food and joined the crowd. Evidently, there will be a contest to built a sand castles for children and the winner will get a dinner package of fish and meat. My brother and i really like meat, so we were interested to join the contest. My father also agreed and registered us as a contestant.

We weren’t very good at built a sand castles, but i know that we should not use to much water or to little. Our sand castle is finished quickly, with a simple design. We were pessimis when we saw rival sand castle, because their sand castle were very beautiful and majestic.

After that, rival sand castle had finished built. But the sand castle instantly destroyed by the waves. Fortunately the waves are far from our sand castle. Only 2 sand castles left to be determined the winner.

We felt anxious while waiting for the winner. We were shocked to hear that we were the winner. The jury said that our sand castle has the right structure. Rival’s sand has too much water. We were very happy because we can have dinner with delicious meat.

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