I've been sick all week and last weekend. Possibly it was the flu; I had some cold-like symptoms but also fatigue, acheyness and muscle pain. I didn't miss any work. I'm just starting to come good again now, apart from still having a clogged up throat.
Today I went down to the harbour. It was a nice, clear, sunny, winter day and it felt good to be out again, after spending the whole last weekend in bed.
For the first time I went to Rinko Park, behind the Intercontinental Yokohama Hotel. It was nothing special as parks go, though it really is *right* on the waterfront. You could quite easily lean over and reach out and touch the sea. It was a very functional park. There were loads of people with dogs, dads chasing their kids, children practising baseball, a dude practising juggling... The buildings around there are really stunning.
Tomorrow I'm going back down that way. There's a temporary open-air ice skating rink at the Red Brick Warehouse and I'm going there with Pete and Jess. I've never been ice skating at an open-air rink before.
I've been here quite a while now but there are still so many things I want to do! I want to go up north before the end of the snow season, and go snowboarding. I want to stay at an onsen on the Izu peninsula. I want to go to Hakone on a really clear winter day and see a GOOD view of Mt Fuji at least once! I want to go to a jpop or jrock concert. I want to go to the Studio Ghibli museum, and Disney Sea, and the beer garden at Ebisu, and many other places besides. There are so many places even around Tokyo and Yokohama and Kawasaki that I've never visited.
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Work is going okay (though I hate working when I'm sick -_-). I have some really excellent, hard-working students. Actually I'm beginning to respect them all the more, especially the ones who've been studying for two or three years.
Truthfully, I'm starting to get really lazy with my Japanese. I'm less motivated to study, and I've already forgotten heaps of vocabulary. I felt really bad for my Japanese teacher when I had my first class after coming back from Australia. At one point in the lesson I had to ask her how to say 'last week'. Very shameful... -_-
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Ok, seriously, I've been looking for someone to go north and snowboard with. I dunno if you noticed, but I'm nuts about it. I would LOVE to go with you if you're serious about it!!
When are you thinking of going??
OMG please let's go together!
Hahaha, I like your enthusiasm. ^_^
I'd rather like to go to Hakuba in Nagano. http://www.vill.hakuba.nagano.jp/~us/
My co-worker and one or two other friends are probably interested in going. You're very welcome to come. I was thinking late February, but it would have to be over a Sunday and Monday, since those are our days off... that's probably less convenient for you though...?
It's hard to organise a group of people for a weekend activity though so if I end up not being able to get them organised to go up there, I'd be quite happy to go just with you. I should warn you though, I've never snowboarded in my life, and have practically no experience with snow, period.
February 22-23 looks like a likely weekend but I'm not sure, maybe the weekend after... どう？
Feb 22-23 I could do. The weekend after is also fine. I have no real plans set up yet past Valentines's Day. I can take a day or two off, it's no biggie. :)
Hakuba looks AWWWESOME.
And I can be your sensei! My friend told me I was halfway decent at the teaching bit, at least for her.
That sounds good... it wouldn't be Feb 22 after all, we're actually working that weekend, but maybe the weekend after...
I'll let you know if we get organised to actually start booking/planning anything properly...
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