Sorry!!

Hey people,

Ok, no promises of greatness for this post!  I know I've been shite at updating lately, but the last couple of months have been crazy. 

After our Fuji climb we had my parents arrive.  They lived with me in my Kurashiki apartment for a bit until Jeff and I went up to Sapporo, Hokkaido, for a week of holiday (it was awesome.  Beer, beer and more beer!).  In August I spent the first week in Tokyo training, the next week we both had training in Hiroshima and the third week Mum left and I had a lanaguage camp in Saijo (look out for my youtube debut as the Japanese-speaking nurse!).  The following week my classes started and I have been busy trying to get my head round the new workplace, signing paperwork for god-knows-what and driving back and forth between the new Fukuyama apartment and our big place in Jinseki. 

Things are starting to settle down finally, as I'm into the third week of school.  I spent Sunday night marking 64 'My Dream' essays, which included one which was a page explaining how the student wanted to be a sports sweat shirt.  I don't think he was taking the piss, so I have no idea what he actually wanted to be...

Anyway, for the future, this is a list of things I should give you more details of when I find the time:
* Climbing Fuji
* Our Sapporo holiday
* Was going to say our training in Hiroshima.  But suffice it to say that we met, we trained and we got horrifically drunk.  If you're not sure what kind of party scene to imagine here, let's just say that there was a DANCE FLOOR.  The first one I have seen in Japan.  So things may have got a little crazy.  At least we weren't like one new JET, who woke up at 3am under the bar with two broken ribs and no recollection of how it happened.  We were not that crazy.  But Jeff was drunk enough to dance and I was drunk enough to ask Jeff why our (Japanese-speaking) friend was talking about eating first year students.  Turns out she was talking about teaching first year students about food.  Hey, I was half right. 

That's not a super long list, so I'm hoping I will get around to giving you a more comprehensive rundown of those two.  I keep encouraging Jeff to write something on here, but he is resistant.  Although he may not have my self-indulgent turn of phrase, he has a much more accurate memory than me and doesn't change smaller details to make the story run smoother ;)  I blame my travel writing paper at Massey, which clearly taught us to sacrifice details for the good of the story!! 

Apologies that this is neither thorough nor informative, but hopefully it will be something to tide y'all over until I get back into this!!

Charly