Niseko, the snowland

16　December 2009

Yesterday’s Snow Report

No NG today~  Yay!

But a lil’ bit ran out of intonation..

17 December 2009
Today’s Snow Report

Snow falling Non-STOP for the past 4 days! 

And this has lead to an GRAND OPENING for Hanazono Ski Resort hoho~

I like this video of all the others that I’ve done so far. 

Coz, Kamonohashi was there and I speak like I am having FUN

Anyway, Kamonohashi is a duck character representing the resort!

You know what, he is a master of Karate, an expert of ski and snowboarding, a crazy dancing king, but just that he doesn’t talk or quack~  kaka

Here some pics of the first few days when I arrived to Niseko! 

Attention

You need to book a bus before you arrived to Sapporo New Chitose Airport to Niseko!
No Booking No Bus  Remember

Cz I was NOT told that I need to book for a bus and I could nearly ended up staying the night at the airport freeeeeeezing! 

Info counter girl told me there will be no bus without a booking and I thought WTF

What kind of a treat is this and they said I’m the winner..

Luckily, there was a bus which was not occupied and I got in heading off to Niseko 30mins later..

Shops at the Rest Stop! 

Outside the Rest Stop camwhoring with snow~!

Hanazono Ski Resort 

Lil’ river near the ski resort 

Yotei Mountain 

View from my room

It snowed on the day I arrived and even heavier the next day. 

But I just did not see why people are saying snow in Niseko is powder.

It was not powder yet back then even though it has snowed.

It was still a lil’ wetty and I thought,

“hmm, so this is the famous powder huh…”

Until today, it has proved me totally wrong

The powder falls later after the rain last Sunday and this place is totally magnificent now

Gonna tell more with more beautiful pics later!! 

Today’s Snow Report! 

Snow is pretty but loads to clear every morning before a start off of the day..

Hanazono TV Daily Powder Report 

BACKSTAGE 
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Filming in the snow~

You might think “SO niiiiice~ to be in the snow!!!”,  

but I was way too freezing cold to really enjoy the snow this morning!

Gonna wear warmer tomorrow!!!!!!!! 

 

Samara and Haruka on air~ 

After filming~ 

Our cool & cute Daily Powder Reports’s Director cum cameraman, Chris

Peace~~!

He’s nice. Throughout the whole filming, he’d just keep smiling even if we had NGs~ 

It really helps alot! 

Daily’s Powder Report

I had my hard time memorizing my script and trrrrry to speak more naturally in front of the camera! 

So, please watch

Don’t get bored~

And I’ll be blogging more on the powder snow in return~!! 

Coz, the powder snow has just fallen down since yesterday hehe

So, this is today’s Snow Report 

Snow~ Snow~ keep falling down~

Hello Konnichiwa 

Today’s my 8th day in Niseko

I’m so laaaaaged of updating my days in Niseko where I’m sooooooo want to update everything that happens!

I was clueless about everything when I first arrived.  

 This place is amazingly so international than I thought. English is everywhere.
And, I kinda not speaking English for quite sometime and I was not used to speak in English nowadays…  Slightly stressful here but a good chance to brush up. In fact, this is till Japan and I’m brushing up my English (converse) in Japan…

 In a place outside of Tokyo, it’s best to have a car!  There’s not much train here.
Without a car, it’s just not convenient.
Now I can only either depend on someone with a car (which I don’t really feel like to, coz it’s just troublesome) or getting on to a bus OR my feet on the icy slippery roads.  Luckily, there’s still a convenient store and the office is not far from where I’m staying now.
But yeah, gonna check out the bus route soon.  

 I’ve nothing to eat I can’t keep draining my  eating out at the moment. I need to cook. But even cooking, I need to prepare everything from the basic!  Soy sauce, salt, sugar, oil, pepper, etc seasoning to start off.    

Anyway, I’m doing all fine now~! 

I’ve started to get used to the environment here, I’ve got all my groceries done, and I’ll be studying the route map of this place soon to explore more!   

So, I’ve been here for a week and have apparently started my Daily Snow Report.

Debut on an official internet TV 
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 8 December 2009

Report on my second day and I was reeeallly nervous 
You know what, I got 54 ‘NG’s takes before I got through with it…
And I speak toooooo fast  

 9 December 2009

Less NG this time…but still nervous and not able to speak naturally with what I’m saying 

 10 December 2009 

I loooovee the background view for this report
It was just simply magnificent  

And that’s me! Half way through the video, that’s me having my first SKI lesson 
Damn clumsy..  but tell you more about my very first lesson later. 

Well, for the report, getting better I guess but still not fully confident yet without memorizing my script.  It’s harder than you thought it might be in front of a camera..

 11 December 2009

Yay! Almost no NG today

That day was a great sunny day with not even a cloud to be seen  but the temperature was only -3 in the morning 
Cold~ 

Dong~ Dong~ Dong~

 12 December 2009

A rainy day due to a change of weather before the powder snow returns~! 

That’s why we were indoors filming the Snow Report.

And I realized that I made a mistake in the end after watching this.. 

That’s all for the week of report! 

New and fresh for me and more to learn still 

Though everything is still not settled comfortably and kinda hard for me for the first week,
yeah, I’m soooo not going to waste this opportunity and soooooooo gonna get myself to have FUN on the Powder Snow this whole season 

p/s: I know I’ve promised to upload my snow pictures a few days ago, but real sorry that I haven’t. Will be up soooooon!   

I’m in NISEKO now

Haruka for Japanese 

Samara for English!

We’re going to be in a team for the reports and some other promotions activities! 

Samara’s a professional and I’m totally a newbie, so I’ll be going to learn a lot from her 

We’ll be doing videos mostly everyday so pleeeeaseeeeeee stay tuned

It’d be fun knowing all the wonder of SNOWS and you could come and join the fun after knowing all well~ 

I’ll be posting some snowy white pictures at night~

Speaking of the Best Job in the World, I did had a great experience when I was trying to think something out of a box to make a wonderful video, communicating while competing with the other contestants, weeks of just sticking onto my computer checking other videos on YouTube days and nights…

At the same, I spent all my precious time dreaming about  
the beautiful ocean~ 
the tranquil of the island~ 
the white beach sand~ 
the clear blue sky~ 
the fun on the island and the excitement under the sea…the Great Barrier Reef 
 

Pic source: http://www.islands-n-beaches.com/rec/56

Yeah, just dreaming.. 

Coz I did not even made through the first stage~   

But I LOVE what I’ve experienced 

And I LOVE my video.  

  

And so that was only a story in the past..

Now, I’ve a new story. 

I’ve just created a new video to participate in a new contest which is quite similar with the above.

What is different is, the contest is limited for only people in Japan, and it’s in winter 

So instead of competing internationally, I’m competing only within Japan,

and instead of a blue ocean, I’m gonna see white powder snow  covering the whole mountain so beautifully, that it shall makes me touched to cry  

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Translation 

Hi, I’m Ito Haruka.

I hope to tell everyone from all over the world about how amazing Niseko during my days in [Best Winter of My Life in Hanazono Niseko].

The winner will be announced on the 23rd November 2009 

But till then, judging will be based on the popularity and number of views in YouTube.

So, pleeeaaaseeee rate and view and spread for meeeeee 

Seriously

So that I can blog, blog, blog more about the powder snow~