| | WHAT'S THE DATE TODAY, IT'S THE 7TH OF MAY!
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Hello friends Japan was veryvery fun :D
Nice weather, nice hotel, nice food, extremely nice pool, awesome company  The competition was really...woah. Japs take synchro pretty seriously; it's such a huge sport there. And the competitors were like :O Hahaha our national team probably wouldn't even be able to represent a club there. Oh well at least we still have lives (sort of) :D
The flight there wasn't bad, the flight back was bad/exciting. Alot of turbulence, Jodie, Cel&I went to the toilet during the flight and we ended up spending like 10minutes at the back of the plane staring out the window cos there was so much lightning outside and it was kinda cool and scary at the same time cos the plane was so dark and it's actually rather pretty outside hahaha. The whole sky just lit up and we were all like Ooooooh.
Training in Japan was good, not too tiring. Just right actually. Previous trips were super draining. The organizers were pretty good about everything, they arrange training times such that the competitors aren't totally dead when it's time to perform (NO MUSIC TIME IN THE MORNING YESSSSSSSSS) The pool was really cool, they've got a giant (I really mean giant, like humongous) screen which shows the performance from all sorts of angles and there were like a gazillion cameramen. Aaaaand there was this really cool underwater camera and the pool is veryveryvery clean and nice and so is the locker room and the showers have hot water!! (Very impressed by that hahaha)
If FP revamps, we need (in order of necessity):
1. A newer toilet
2. Hot water
3. A costume dryer
HAHAHAHA. We figured that the Japs save money on the doors and channel it into hot water, we're fine with that too (: We never really used them anyway.
Mmm watching the competition was good experience, if boring at points. The national team is...scary. We were next to them on one of the days in the locker room, they look much younger in their swimming costumes. In blazers they just look really old. (They are anyway, like mid 20s) They've got really pretty makeup bags, sponsored by Kose. They've got a million sponsors zzz. Okay but they're really very good (I don't exactly have pictures/videos so oh well) (We don't exactly have a video of our performance either, don't ask)
I think our performances went well. Jiaolian was pretty happy with tech I think, and free wasn't so bad (My noseclip nearly dropped off, so scary, I was debating like the whole routine whether I should attempt to put it back on properly or not. And Cel had to take off and put on hers again like 5 times or something)
I think the most amazing thing was that for both routines, I wasn't nervous at all. Normally I'm jumping all over the place or I can't talk or whatever but this one was fine, and I think it pretty much boils down to just one thing. All in all, this trip's really shown me what God can do if I put all my trust in Him and just leave everything in His hands. During the routine all I could think was You're with me, You give me strength, when I couldn't breathe, when I was so so tired. And in knowing that what He's promised won't fail, I think I concentrated alot better on the competition and I have even more faith in Him now (:
I guess Japan was a good break for me, I can kinda get back and concentrate more on school work now. No more excuses. Though of course if I had a choice, I'd be pretty happy staying there for awhile more (: (Jodie: "Fine, take my passport, I'll just stay here and wander around aimlessly. Don't need to go back to school, don't need to take A levels...") (She had this dreamy look on her face when she said that, hahaha) PTD was while we were away, I completely forgot about it but my parents remembered thank goodness. Apparently everyone had good things to say except Mrs Liow which I am not surprised about. I'm shocked I didnt get any other bad comments from teachers though hahaha.
Okay pictures can and will do the talking I will recount stupid stories along the way.
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PHOTOBUCKET IS BEING SLOW, PICTURES ANOTHER DAY.
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