Hmm… I’ve just come back from christmas card shopping, a grand total of 8 cards has just set me back 3 days food money!!?!? £25 for cards and a nice padden envelope to sent them in, sheesh….

Dad has pointed out I neglected to say what the matter with Yumi was, I remember this last night, but didn’t want to get up to write anymore.

Basically, since she has been here in September, the manager has always taken out his grievences on her (if he is having a bad day, she will have a bad day etc…) - well she finally had enough and broke down On the plus side, the manager apologised and promised he will be niced in future - she said if he doesn’t she will go back home to Hokaido - so let’s hope he’s true to his word.

Last night I spent hours copying all the adjectives into my book, along with all the forms and types (to do, past, present, didn’t do, didn’t do past) along with both the polite and plain forms - well today in class, we were given a sheet on how to easily work them out by just using the first term>1>!> I guess this won’t mean much to many of you, but to me it meant I only had to write the “to do” form and I would instantly be able to work out the rest (instead of writing them all down).

Class today involved some tongue twister language, but at least I understood what was going on - I seriously need to get back into revision though, as this could run away from me very quickly.

Down to £15 to last 10 days (hmm….) - I wish they didn’t pay us so late here, it’s stupid. I’ve also been given a week to give my final holiday details - tricky as this means I need to book the flight now, which means I need to pay for it by the end of December… nuts…..

I also have a feeling I will get a kids class today, so going to go in a bit earlier to prepare it - the training was so bad, I have no confidence at all
Then after, I’ll meet up with Yumi to go Gusto for dinner - then (I hope) bed early so I will be ready for my observation tomorrow - however nothign ever goes to plan in my life, so i’ll probably make another entry at 3am or so
To Nova - AWAAAAAAYYYYY!!!

Yup, I still couldn’t get to sleep until about 4am, so come 9am i was in no mood to get up for school. I’m going to go to the pharmacy at some point to get some sleeping tablets or something, this is getting stupid.

I had also forgotten that I was starting work earlier (doh!) so awoke my usual time, looked down at the floor and shock horror, saw the piece of paper strategically placed to remind me… lol…

It was ok, I still made it in on time, but i think i was pretty lucky as i hadn’t set an alarm or anything…

Arrived in work to find Yumi having a hayfever fit (or so i thought), it was quite amusing, so i just laughed and went into the staff room. It was only after listening to her through the wall that I started think maybe it wasn’t a hayfever fit she was having - my suspicions were confirmed when she ran into the staff room and to me in a flood of tears. A brief bit of consoling then ensued (along with wiping the snot off my shirt …) - however it was obvious she didn’t want to say what was up in front of everyone and would much rather go to sleep…

Work was pretty much same old, same old, though had 2 voice classes which was a nice way to break up the time. Then it was all over, so it was back to mine where is was Yumi’s turn to cook.

Yaki Udon again, but this time there was no Shiho to steal half of it, haha, so we sat on the bed to watch “The Shawshank Redemption” whilst we ate. It was only after an hour or so that I noticed Yumi had fallen asleep, so put the cover over her and carried on watching…

This proved to be a fatal mistake on my part, as come 1am (and when i wanted to go to bed) - she was sparko and wouldn’t get up. Not wanting a repeat of the other nite (i needed good sleep as I had kids training today) - i managed to eventually wake her up (though i felt quite guilty) and send her back out into the cold
So as mentioned, today was “Kids Training Day” - essentially we (I) go on a course which teaches us the basics on how to conduct the kids lessons. It was an 8 hour day, held in the same place as my last training session.

Well, I’ve just got back from it now, knowing pretty much as little as I knew before. I can’t say I really rated it very much at all and every one seemed a bit confused at the end. This seems to be a trend with Nova though, the training seems pretty basic and you are expected to pick up most of the knowledge on your own.

I also have a nasty suspicion I will have a Kids class tomorrow, which I really don’t feel ready for. However this was true of the normal lessons before, so I guess it’s just a case of doing it - thus getting used to it….

You may be wondering what the huge song names are I’ve been listening to, I recently started to listen to shoutcast radio stations again - in particular “Digital Imported” the “Happy Hardcore” station. This could (I suspect) be part of the reason I can never sleep as my mind is racing too fast, so I’m going to start switching it off a bit before bed and work on my Japanese (Still transferring between books) - if that doesn’t send me to sleep, nothing will… haha…

Makes me really miss the music and clubs of the UK though - it’s amazing how much music affects me I think, it really can turn a depressing time to a happy time. Shame my tastes are really not catered for out here - so god bless the internet… w00t!

Ah well, school tomorrow, so I better wrap this up and get on with my writing - Air Con ON!! Hiragana AWAY!!!

This always happens, I sleep in too long and now I just can’t get to sleep….

Grrrr….. just made some Corn Cream Soup, hopefully this will help me nod off…

Well, that’s all my coding done for today, just finished putting the “paging” section on at the bottom, so you no longer scroll for miles and miles, it’s set to show 10 entries per page…

Of course, at the moment, due to the massive entries in place, you will still have to endure long scrolls (and page loading times) for a smidgen longer, but in a few days - everything should be cut down quite a bit
What else am I going to do here? Well, work on the gallery to make it a lot more user friendly / look a lot better. Probably Monday night for that. I’ve also got WinAmp tagging each music file I listen to, so will probably do something interesting (though ultimately pointless) with that data (most listened to, popular this week etc…)

Ok then, to the shower (where I hope it doesn’t power cut me today) and then, JAPANESE … w00t!

Well last night was an interesting clubbing experience
After making our “take out” drinks using an interesting array of alcohol..

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.. it was time to brave the cold (it really has got freezing here) and head out to the usual weekend haunt of Roppongi (despite the fact that neither of us particuarly like it). So 3 trains later and we were there.

By now the bottle was finished, so of course I had now got hungry again - first stop a cheap izakaiya where we both ordered some more food (me a yakisoba and seiko what looked like the same as we had for dinner) and quite a few drinks.

A few hours later, we figured we should actually go somewhere, so headed for the high street….. looming in front of us was Don Quotie (or however you spell it) which gave us the alternate idea to go and buy a bottle of Moet and sit on Yukas roof drinking ….
£15 worse off (and a quick stop to McDonalds for me to get meal number 3) we were soon sitting on Yukas roof, all wrapped in blankets kindly supplied to us From here on is where my memory ends, I apparently drunk half the bottle or so then fell asleep!!!

The girls woke me up a few hours later (after Seiko had already now had her meal number 3 - ramen cooked by Yuka) as one of the neighbours had complained or something so we had to leave….

It was now 4am and *very* cold - it seemed the only sensible thing to do would be to go to a restaurant So First Kitchen it was: Cheeseburger with Bacon and Eggs plus a large chips please…. hurrah, meal number 4.

Then back home.

So that was last night, I’ve put some photos up but they’re not really so interesting, especially since the battery ran out (not that there would have been much to photo anyway).

Now, I’m just working on a few bits and pieces here, will have a shower in a moment then get on with Japanese.

Yumi is coming over later for dinner, pehaps a little inconvenient as I have to ring home and Gowry, but I’ve told her this, so she can’t be suprised when I kick her out … haha…