Long when you're not actually getting any sleep.

It was hard waking up this morning knowing that I won't be going to sleep tonight. I pulled my doona up over my head and tried to shut out the daylight and squeeze out every last bit of sleep I could.

Tonight we're hiking overnight from Oxfam checkpoints 4 to 8 over near Hakone. It's going to be one helluva long night. Last weekend we hiked just over 20km. Tonight we're hiking 55km. A slight jump in distance in what is going to be not just a physical test but a psychological one in staving off the curtain of sleep.

I think I'm ready. During lunch time yesterday Jessie and I went to Spopia to pick up things we'll need for the weekend and for the big one. Things like headlamps, water bottles, spare batteries, clothes made from quick drying materials etc. I got home from school yesterday and went straight to the supermarket to collect my list of food items to take tonight. I'm going home at lunch time to cook some fried rice to put in zip lock bags. In my mind I'm mentally ticking off things as I pack them.

Urgh... It's going to be a long night. I hope I have enough warm clothes. I still don't have gloves and I really need them. I might sneak out sometime during school and go buy some.

Oh, and I was reading up on the Oxfam walk. Turns out we might run into bears. Real bears. With sharp teeth. The worse I run into back home are fat wombats, pademelons and sometimes Tasmanian devils.

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