Groundhog Day in Japan
I saw my shadow the other day while I was biking home and let me tell you I can completely understand why Willy turns around and goes back into his hole. It scared the crap out of me and I almost fell of my bike. I thought some other biker had magically appeared from thin air and was about to crash into me. I'm not sure what it's all supposed to mean. Either I should pay more attention when I'm biking or there's 6 more hours of winter left for Tokyo.
Speaking of winter, I went snowboarding with Fumiko today. Only it wasn't your everyday snowboarding. I went snowboarding in Tokyo. I went to an indoor hill. It was ok-about as good as an indoor hill can possibly get. But it's infinitely more interesting to say that you went snowboarding in a building in the middle of Tokyo than say some resort like Whistler.
Fumiko claimed to have snowboarded a couple of times before but she had no idea how to do it so it must have a long time ago. Anyways we spent most of the three hours going down the beginner slope. Most of that time I didn't have a snowboard on my feet and I jogging down the hill teaching snowboarding. Then to save time I would push her back up the hill. Let me tell you after twenty times that gets a little exhausting!
2 comments:
Is there more to this snowboarding hill than the "beginner hill"? It's hard to tell from the pictures how steep it is. It looks like it could be hard to build up any momentum. A bit like the magic carpet at Blue, except for the roof overhead!
The top half is fairly steep but the bottom half is relatively flat. I think it's about 300m long so not too too long.
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