Northstar Lodge

Did you hear REES is organising a funfilled English camp for kids?

Did you think 'Wow, wish I was eleven years old so I could go too!'?

Well, you don't have to go too far to have a great time relaxing and enjoying the outdoors and practise your English at the same time.

Last weekend I stayed at Northstar Lodge in Norikura.

The lodge is run by an American Daniel Junker and his family.

Daniel was born and raised right here in Matsumoto.

The staff at the lodge come from all over the world. I spoke to some Americans, a Canadian and a Swedish guy, too- plenty of opportunity to practise English!

But, like the REES kids' camp you want to have some fun while you're there too, right?

Northstar has plenty to do indoors and out and all year round. Check out the website for more details:

http://www.ridenorthstar.com/

Here's some pictures of us having fun there:

rain rain rain

The rain yesterday was amazing wasn't it?

I was out for a walk when all of a sudden it started raining.

I'm from Australia.

It really doesn't rain very much in Australia.

The average annual rainfall where I`m from is about 500mm

In Matsumoto the average is 1018 mm a year.

That's over double!!

But it's not the highest rainfall at all.

The highest average annual rainfall is in Hawaii.

Mt. Waialeale, on the island Kauai in Hawaii, receives an average of 12,039 mm of rain a year.

Wow. That's a lot of rain!!