<Begin Segment 10>

TI: Okay, so we're gonna start up again. Before we leave Japan, I heard during the break that you climb Mt. Fuji?

KT: Oh, yeah. Tsurumi, I think it was third or the fourth grade, summer vacation, they all have a program for the students to take, either go ocean or mountain, and I chose Mt. Fuji. So we walked, you know, from, after we took the train ride to Shizuoka, the bottom of the Mt. Fuji, and from there, you walk with a stick. And then we reach to the camp, I think it was on the eighth, number eight. So we had two more to go to climb up yet. And I said, "No, I cannot go already. I cannot already." And we had the teacher go with us anyway. It just happened, my first grade teacher and my second grade teacher was there, and he said, "You came all the way over from Hawaii, you got to climb to the top." "But I cannot." Said, "Okay, then, I'll carry you." The second grade teacher, "Okay, I'll carry you." And the first grade teacher said, "I'll carry your bag." That's what they did. The teacher carried my bag, one teacher piggybacked me, and I climbed up. And then they dropped me, and then I took the photo from Mt. Fuji, the top.

TI: Oh, that's a good story.

KT: But you know, at the eight, on the eighth floor, there's a cabin, we sleep overnight. We have to sleep overnight. And you get up early in the morning and see the sunrise. That sunrise was something that I cannot explain. It's a beautiful, beautiful sunrise that was so... that Mt. Fuji. It's something that I cannot forget. I climbed Mt. Fuji, that's how I did.

TI: That was a good story.

<End Segment 10> - Copyright © 2010 Densho. All Rights Reserved.