It was terribly cold outside but the room was very comfortable. So, once I sat down on the bench, it was hard to go out of the cottage again.

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Our host and hostess were wearing Sammi costumes. Their costumes looked a little different than the costumes which I had seen in Levi.

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I made friends with Japanese girls on the tour. We could get to know each other although we live in different places and we are different ages. Traveling abroad is a good chance to meet new friends and it is really one of the pleasures of it.

When we arrived there, we could see bands of faint lights in the sky. At first, we couldn't tell if it was the northern lights or not. But our tour guide told us that the faint light was the northern lights. The faint band appeared parallel to the mountain ridge and it was very low. It looked like searchlights or something and it looked like there were artificial illuminats behind the mountains.

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We couldn't be satisfied with such a faint aurora. So they started to do a strange dance to call for a huge aurora.... They were so excited.