So having finished school on Wednesday, I cleaned my apartment and packed. Which was a bit of a nightmare. The trip to Hokkaido for christmas was a cheap holiday partly because we were all crashing at Jenn’s house. However, this meant taking bedding and towels, stuff that normally I wouldn’t be packing. As such, space… [Read more…]
December 21, 2010
A while ago, I received an email off my sister. It was a Christmas story. The story is about a little girl called Sophie who finds a little blue wooden angel. When I had this book when I was little, it came with the angel, and every year, I have happily hung her on the… [Read more…]
November 21, 2010
Every year, we receive a reminder about the fact we aren’t getting any younger. Our birthdays. Friday 19th November was my 27th birthday. Unlike a lot of people, getting older doesn’t really seem to bother me. In fact it’s quite useful as I generally forget how old I am and frequently tell people I’m older… [Read more…]
April 8, 2010
There was always going to be one of these blogs. Just didn’t know when. However, an evening of yummy curry at Dungaree with Alex has had us both talking about things we miss, so while I wait for my washing machine to finish, here gos. Family. It was always going to be the case that… [Read more…]
April 6, 2010
I am now into my second week of living in Shirataka. I’m still not teaching. There seems to be a lot of confusion over when I’m actually starting. Fingers crossed it will be Monday as I’m getting restless. The one useful thing about not being in school yet is that I’m getting plenty of time… [Read more…]
April 4, 2010
This is not going to be a day by day description of my first week in Shirataka, but just a gathering of it all. The main reason for this is that the first week has been a bit of shopping, a bit of crying, the odd school and some furniture building. I’ve done lots of… [Read more…]
December 28, 2010
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