week 29

time just keeps zooming!

this week was quite low key after the busy three day weekend.

tuesday- i went to the gym for a long session after school

wednesday- i went to elementary school and encounteres inquisitive children who were intrigued about how western girls have these things called breasts, which the japanese women mostly lack. It was a good session, better than my last time there which was good to know. I felt more in control of the kids and the sessions were better organised. when i got back to school the san nenseis were having a basketball tournament. the kids were really energetic and some of the boys were amazing! it was exciting to watch. and i got to play! there was a teachers match and so i was asked to play, it was cool to have the kids cheering me on and suprised that i have a little coordination and can kinda play basketball! After school i went to taiko which was as fun as ever. i love playing the drums, it really doew make me feel good! I also agreed to teach etsuko, shima and sensei's wife english next week! i dont know if i may live to regret this as they can hardly say two words... it may be fun though!

thursday- after school i went to the gym for another good session and then i met up with matthew, kim, john, bruce and shari to talk about the weekend, as moct people headed to hokkaido for the sapporo snow festival, which i had decided not to go to for various reasons.

friday- after school i played tennis for a while which was fun and i worked up quite a sweat playign against the young dude. after that i drove to fukui to meet some people in a karaoke place (on thursday we had decided that there had been a severe lack of tuneless singing recently, and so the arrangements were made). it was a fun evening drinking countless cups of hot drinks and singing madly to random songs! yay.

saturday- i had a small lie in but i got up to go to the gym which is always fantastic and energizing. after this i got changed and headed over to jill's. after stopping on the way to get a few bits at lpa and the 100yen shop, jill and i went to the 100yen sushi which is now my second home, god i will miss these sushi places back in the uk! we sat, chatted and scoffed for quite a while which was great. i love that african! after suhi we stopped of in a shop i had seen earlier in the week which looked funky. it was really cute, although a little expensive for me. that evening, after some chilling at jills abode, we went to melissa and steven's for a valentines evening. It was a great evening with fantastic food, nice company and fun making valentines cards for one another. it was nice to be relaxed.

sunday- i woke up at 12pm!! yay! it felt soooo good! the day was spent doing very little compared to usual. i played tennis for 2 and a half hours and then i did lots of chores that had to be done. although not too much happened this weekend it was just what the gaijin ordered!