Mountain Climbing: Part 1

Damn I let those missles fly, I just meant to point out, and satirize the Rotary going on about culture shock, looking back on my previous writings it seems I got kind of carried away. I think it was my reaction to Dan Zimlozak`s talking-down-to-you attitude, even though he is a `higher-up` it gives him absolutly no excuse for him to push me or anybody else around. I remember when my mom picked me up from Otterbein, we saw Dan give us the nastiest look. I think he though I was unfit to go abroad because I guess it was a really (unnessesary) big to do when people knew of me and Brett`s martial arts incident, it doesn`t mean we are gonna run around Tokyo beating random people up, so chill.
Phew! no that that is over with lets get to some good news for a change, since 95% of this whole exchange has been awesome, I refuse to focus on the negitive. Ok lets get rolling. Last Sunday a few Rotarians took me to Nagasaki Prefecture to go mountain climbing. Being a ninja I was completely psyched! And I proved my ninja-ness (is that even a word, if its not I call it!) by practically flying up the rock faces. I am not much of a hiker, but I am a climber and I always have been, its something I havent grown out of since I was a little kid. I still have the kid`s tendency to try to walk on narrow gaurd rails, walk on top of walls, jump up and down flights of stairs. Anyways, we climbed 3 of these beasts, the main one that was in the middle was called Unzen Fugen Dake, I think that the `G` in Fugen would actually be a `K` if it werent for the `Z` in Unzen first, so I like to say I climbed that `Fuken` mountian. There was a wooden sign at the summit with all the kanji and stuff on it. It was a very small sign, and to my delight I was able to pull it out of the ground with ease. This thing was small enough to fit in my backpack, and you know me, always wanting to have a souveneir, the Japanese call it a `memorial` (for souveniers I mean). And the Rotarians that were with me, actually every Rotarian I met here, love to party. So they do crazy stuff, so when us Exchangies (Thats the term my friend Zoe Ollerenshaw coined) do crazy stuff nobody is bothered by it, actually crazy shit is encouraged around here (I am in heaven!) so being as cool as they were, I knew that they would be chilled enough for me to take the sign. So when I asked some of them nodded their heads as if they were thinking `I wish I thought of that` but after much laughing and joking they told me it had to stay put, but the next time I climb that `Fuken` mountain its mine!