Finally

Yup, I've finally gotten round to another update. This one goes back to somewhere around the start of August.

I went meteor watching a while back as we were passing through the Perseid meteor belt (or something like that). Anyway, around midnight I jumped on my bike and rode about 5 minutes out of Hagi until I found a new road that hasn't been opened yet. I sat there for a couple of hours and watched meteors. It was pretty cool. Within the first 15 minutes I saw 11 meteors! Is that geeky?

Next, the new ALTs arrived. I was busy racing around after them trying to get them sorted and settled, which wasn't the easiest task. We took them out to dinner a few times to do the whole welcome thing.

The new ALTs are: Shak (English), Nicole (kiwi), Kate (Aussie), and Alex (American).

Shak, Kate, Nicole

Matt (3rd year ALT) and Alex

We also went to a festival at one of the temples in Hagi where over 1000 stone lanterns were lit, which was pretty cool: