My exciting summer vacation

During this summer vacation, I experienced a lot of events. For example, a camp in Nagano, a display of fireworks, giving and watching live concerts, a match of softball and so on. Among them I’d like to write about a car trip to Shōnan beach in Kanagawa.

Do you know the team “Shōnan Boys”? Surely you don’t know because last G.W. it was organized among my local friends. It was made up of 4 people. It was organized in order to feel wind of Shōnan beach.

◆ September 7
The car trip toward Shōnan started at 1:30 a.m. On the way we dropped in convenient stores a few times. At Circle K in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, we took photos with a strange man. He gave a cigarette to a friend of mine. He said to us “This happening will be a memory for this trip.” Then I fell asleep because of lack of sleeping hours. When I woke up, I found we reach our destination Shōnan beach. It was maybe 9:00 a.m. We went out from the car and we got shocked. Smell of the air was bad and there are not many people. Of course young girls aren’t there. We were shocked. After 20-minute walk, we left there. My friend (the member of the trip) goes to Aoyama Gakuin University and lives in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, so we had decided to stay at his house. As soon as reached there we slept because of tire, but I wasn’t tired, so I was awake and played Nintendo DS alone. When my friends got up, we went shopping to a super market and bought foodstuffs for mizutaki, a pot meal. It was delicious! However taking shower was terrible! As my friend hadn’t paid gas charge, we took a cold shower. I couldn’t help shivering during that. In the midnight we tried to trespass on Aoyama Gakuin University, but because it was strictly guarded, we gave up. After we came back home, we played TV games and slept.

◆ September 8
We got up at over 2 p.m. We had planed to go for lunch to Aoyama Gakuin University, so we went there again at 3 p.m. But the cafeteria had been closed at 2 p.m. We were shocked and decided to go there next day. We change our mind and went to Chinatown in Yokohama. At 5:30 we arrived there and make rounds for souvenirs and dinner. I bought sweets for the souvenirs and I ate Chinese noodle of shrimp covered by wonton. Then we went to a harbor in Minatomirai, where we hung out. After we returned home once, we took a shower and waited for the midnight. The temperature of the shower was good because he had paid the gas charge already. At 1 a.m. we started to drive again in order to visit Lake Tsukui that is famous for a spiritual spot. During summer vacation we had often visited spiritual spots for thrill, so we weren’t afraid at all. But my friend’s picture showed a suspicious figure of a person, and we got afraid when we saw it. After that we ate midnight snacks in Gusto. When we got back home, we slept soon.

◆ September 9
We got up at 12 p.m., so we had the time for lunch. At 1:30 we reach the cafeteria in Aoyama Gakuin University and ate lunch. I ordered katsudon, pork cutlets and rice. In the house until 4:30 p.m. we hung out, clean the room and prepared for going to Aichi. Then we drove to our hometown Handa. I sang songs with my friends and didn’t sleep that time. When we got to Handa at 1:30 a.m., 2 other friend joined with us, and we went to Chinese restaurant Mandoukou. Then another friend joined with us, and we hung out at Family Mart till 5 a.m. Because policemen came there and encouraged us to go home, we went home.

Though a lot of things happened during this trip, we enjoyed ourselves very much. Next year I’m going to study abroad, but I would like to make lots of good memories there.

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