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Here's a nice photo that was taken of Mika and I at Dans lovely wedding. Thought some of u back home might want to check it out. can u tell im bored at work yet?

FYI

Sorry for the delay in informing everyone but my small is now not known as Monobe Village, but it is called Monobe Town. Yes, thats right boys and girls my village of 3000 people, half of that being over 65 years of age, has become a town! isnt that special? Dont i look ecstatic?!?

Junior High's Graduation Day

Yesterday was my Junior High School's Graduation Day. Luckily the weather turned out to be great after everyone was panicking coz it snowed for a bit the day before (bloody paranoid japanese people....hehe) while everyone was decorating the school. I dusted the cobwebs off my suit and suited up for the occasion. Went to school clueless to what i was supposed to do as most teachers kept me out of the loop and were running around like headless chickens! Went to sit down in the school gym and waited for the 3rd years to enter the building so the ceremony could take place. Sat with the teachers thinking that seeing as tho i had been teaching there for the past 8 months everything would be sweet but then they told me that i was supposed to sit with the other guests. Not wanting to cause a scene i bit my lip and sat over the other side of the gym, fuming on the inside. But once the 3rd years came in i calmed down and was really proud of them. Now, the days leading up to the ceremony everyone kept coming up to me asking if u were gonna cry, and now i see why, coz there was tears coming from all directions. If it wasnt from the students or teachers trying to mumble out words when they were balling their eyes out (which was comedy by the way), others were crying along with them. The ceremony went for about 2 hours and during that time u werent allowed to clap the students when they received their grauduation certicificates or anything. so besides the soppy music that was playing which i spose was the main cause of the crying, it was dead quite. dickhead here forgot to have breakfast so my stomach started to cry out a shitload of times which was quite embarassing. hehe. After the ceremony the students walked out crying and saying thanks and congrats to everyone. Most of the male students kept coming up to me to see if i had cried and i said, "no, grow some balls!" actually i only said the 'no' part.......... anyways, then it was foto time before the 3rd years had a party with the homeroom teachers and parents. I went back to the BOE to prepare myself for the evenings enkai which was a pretty drunken affair! I led everyone to the nijikai (after party) and we continued on through the night singing and drinking more. Luckily today i get to do bugger all at work and sneak away for a cheeky 2-3 hour lunch break without anyone asking where i am...... GOD I LOVE THE INAKA! hehe

2006 Genki Seinenkai Retreat

For those of you that dont know, I am taking part in a musical that a lot of the JETs in Kochi participate in which goes all over Kochi. To make matters worse it is not in English (as noone in Kochi would understand it coz theyre all old people) it is in the Prefecture local dialect, Tosa dialect! JETs holds a different musical every year in order to raise funds so that Kochi can help send their kids overseas on exchange. Last year, apparently was their best year and I've decided to sacrifice a lot of weekends (bitch, moan) to take part in it! This year it is based on a couple who is famous in Kochi who helped bring Kochi Castle to Kochi (i think.....forget what it was about) and merges with the Antony and Cleopatra story! Believe me its quite a well done story! Anyways, lately we've been parctising our lines and i snagged the part as one of the main characters friends called Doc. There are actually 7 other friends who are based on the 7 Dwarves. So we have a sleepy, sneezy, bashful, etc. So I have a few lines and have to be in like nearly every dance. This weekend all of us JETs who are doing this, the Genki Seinenkai, had a retreat up in the mountains away from everyone in order to fine tune our skills as actors and dancers (like it really helped.....)! I didnt really want to go coz it was Mika's last weekend staying with me but it ended up turning out alright, Mika even had a go at the dancers and we both saw how much we both suck at dancing.

Do you like bugs?

Do i really need to explain the shirt? Its my girlfriend, Mika's shirt. She got it for christmas off her mum along with some other clothes. She had no idea what it said on the back of her shirt until i told her. On the front it goes on about love and world peace until u read the back. It is just plain wrong

Kindy End of Year Sports Day

Today i went over to thinking i was supposed to teach my little kindy kids some english until i saw there was a heap of people watching all the kids there run around a small track a few times! They had events for all the kids, but it was mostly for the kids who will be going to primary school from next month and their parents. It was quite cute to see all these kids run around and then come and try climb all over me when they finished. i had three kids sitting on my lap (in a non-sexual way) and another on my back. Anyways, enjoy the pics.

This was all the kids aged from about 3-6 years

The big kids had to lead the little kindy kids around the track in a race with the other pair.

It sure isnt easy getting the kids to stand in a circle for a long period of time but i think Keiko Sensei has it down pact.

Dan's Wedding Pt 2

Dan and Mayu dancing the night away

Dan talking to his mum and his best mate from England, Antony!

Genki Musical peoples dance. I had no idea what i was doing
This is Dan's infamous chicken suit which he always wears to the Halloween Party. Thankfully they had washed it the day before i put it on coz it will still soaked in Dans sweat and beer! hehe....legend!

Dan's Wedding Pt 1

Here's the lovely couple after they changed out of their traditional Japanese clothes! Dont they both look happy!
The newlywed couple sitting up at the front looking very regal

AWWW.....It's a kodak moment!

Me and the boys singing 'Daniel' by the Beatles

Me and Vercs. In the background is Karen and Flinty

Dans mum and I standing in line with some other fancy dressed people so that Dan could guess while being blindfolded who his bride was. He picked me as the chicken straight away

Mika

Yours truly!