Ok, I'm pretty excited now. Tomorrow I am heading to Singapore and Malaysia! I guess I should probably pack, but most of my clothes are still wet from washing them yesterday. Did I mention its cold? Haven't had any more snow since the weekend, but a couple of frosts and some rain is more than enough for me!
Anyway, I hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Years! I'll bore you all with pictures and stories about my trip when I get back.
BYE!! :)
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Christmas
What can I say? It started snowing today. Most of you know I'm not a big fan of christmas, and some of you know I can't stand snow, so today was a double whammy.
What's worse is that I was outside walking home when the first flakes started to fall. This is becuase of a bit of bad luck.
The other day I was at Rosie and Dans house watching a DVD. I was also chewing on the keyring Marlborough our barman had given me. It was a smirnoff one with red liquid in the middle. It exploded in my mouth, and instead of helping me, Dan and Jo just cracked up - thanks guys. So anyway, after the DVD I rode home (15 minutes across town), climbed up to the third floor (2nd in Kiwispeak) and suddenly realised I had left my keys at Dan and Rosies house. Back on my bike and back across town. But halfway there, my front tyre went flat. So I walk my bike to their house, only to walk straight past because I wasn't paying attention, looking up a few minutes later and thinking: 'where the hell am I?'. Finally I got my keys and made my way home. and then the next day, I fell over at school and bruised my knee - its a good bruise, though.
So you can understand why I'm not in the flashest of moods at the moment. Ah well, at least I am leaving for Malaysia and Singapore in 5 days. It will be weird to hear english spoken by more than 3 people!
Happy christmas!
What's worse is that I was outside walking home when the first flakes started to fall. This is becuase of a bit of bad luck.
The other day I was at Rosie and Dans house watching a DVD. I was also chewing on the keyring Marlborough our barman had given me. It was a smirnoff one with red liquid in the middle. It exploded in my mouth, and instead of helping me, Dan and Jo just cracked up - thanks guys. So anyway, after the DVD I rode home (15 minutes across town), climbed up to the third floor (2nd in Kiwispeak) and suddenly realised I had left my keys at Dan and Rosies house. Back on my bike and back across town. But halfway there, my front tyre went flat. So I walk my bike to their house, only to walk straight past because I wasn't paying attention, looking up a few minutes later and thinking: 'where the hell am I?'. Finally I got my keys and made my way home. and then the next day, I fell over at school and bruised my knee - its a good bruise, though.
So you can understand why I'm not in the flashest of moods at the moment. Ah well, at least I am leaving for Malaysia and Singapore in 5 days. It will be weird to hear english spoken by more than 3 people!
Happy christmas!
Sunday, December 03, 2006
It's beens a busy week
Well, once again, I've been pretty slack. And because I have a pile of lessons to prepare before tomorrow, I'll make this short:
This week I have been to Yamaguchi by myself for the first time and not only managed to NOT get lost, I also went and saw one of my favourite JTEs perform in kyogen, which is japanese comedy. I only understood a little, but it was still pretty funny.
Matt and I went to Tsuwano (in the next prefecture over) where we made paper, had lunch and climbed up to a shrine halfway up a mountain!
The other night, being a Friday, Dan, Matt and I met Furusho-sensei (our supervisor) at our usual bar and decided to make a night of it. I am ashamed to admit that kareoke was perpetrated - sorry guys. I finished the night trying to ride home not entirely sober - not a good idea! At least I didn't crash, but it was a near thing - I swear that concrete wall came out of nowhere!
Saturday was a bit of a waste day - somewhere between 6:30 and 8am I swore off alcohol altogether, but by about 10am, my resolve was wavering, and by 10:30 I changed my mind entirely! Which is probably a good thing, because our christmas party is next Saturday.
And finally today, Rosie and I hung out because Jo and Dan were in Hiroshima. It was great, we wrapped presents for the christmas party, watched DVDs and in the evening went to a salt water onsen - heaven.
I reckon I'm prepared for the week ahead - its going to be a doozy!
This week I have been to Yamaguchi by myself for the first time and not only managed to NOT get lost, I also went and saw one of my favourite JTEs perform in kyogen, which is japanese comedy. I only understood a little, but it was still pretty funny.
Matt and I went to Tsuwano (in the next prefecture over) where we made paper, had lunch and climbed up to a shrine halfway up a mountain!
The other night, being a Friday, Dan, Matt and I met Furusho-sensei (our supervisor) at our usual bar and decided to make a night of it. I am ashamed to admit that kareoke was perpetrated - sorry guys. I finished the night trying to ride home not entirely sober - not a good idea! At least I didn't crash, but it was a near thing - I swear that concrete wall came out of nowhere!
Saturday was a bit of a waste day - somewhere between 6:30 and 8am I swore off alcohol altogether, but by about 10am, my resolve was wavering, and by 10:30 I changed my mind entirely! Which is probably a good thing, because our christmas party is next Saturday.
And finally today, Rosie and I hung out because Jo and Dan were in Hiroshima. It was great, we wrapped presents for the christmas party, watched DVDs and in the evening went to a salt water onsen - heaven.
I reckon I'm prepared for the week ahead - its going to be a doozy!
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