Sorry for the lack of communication!!

Hey there,

Sorry for the lack of communication...  Jeff and I only got back from Taiwan on Friday, hit Jinseki on Saturday, spent Sunday unpacking and doing laundry (We had no clean underwear, and those who knew my underwear collection in NZ should be impressed and amazed at how much I cut down coming here, to actually manage to run out!!) and on Monday we went for our first snowboard for the winter!  Now it's Tuesday and I need to head down to my job for the week, so I won't be back in Jinseki (and therefore on the internet) for another week. 

Today was also Jeff's first day back at work.  He had a nice surprise (well, actually it wasn't really a surprise, we kind of expected it) when the hot water wasn't working, so no hot shower to warm up.  On cold mornings our pipes have been freezing (while ironically our freezer doesn't freeze and we had to throw out a bunch of stuff!!).  So right when you most need a hot shower... you can't have one!  Jeff will have to talk to his supervisor at the Board of Education about it, but it probably won't be able to be sorted until next week, when I'm home to let the workman in, so it's probably a week of really cold mornings for Jeff! 

Ok, I'm thinking I'll head down to Onomichi early, so that I can have a shower at my accomodation down there (assuming our water hasn't defrosted in the time I've been bumming on the internet, sitting under the heated table :)  ).  So apologies for not telling you ANYTHING about our Taiwan trip in this update, but I need to pack for a week away from home and then drive two hours to have my shower!! 

Will update better next week!

Cheers,
Charly

P.S.  Re. the snowboarding, just a note to say how impressed I was at how much Jeff remembered from his four hours of snowboarding three years ago.  By the end of our three hours on the slope he was confidently scooting off down the mountain, linking his turns nicely, travelling with some speed and only having the occasional bail!