A Belated Return (^_^)

Hhhheeerrss Simon!! :))))
So finally an update!! and the reason for such a long hiatus? just blame it on old laziness hehe
Also I spend a little more time on these things than your average joe Blog so you feel privileged!!!! lol
Anyway not much in the way of news. So I'll give a round-up of what's been different in the last few weeks.
First thing happened a while back now, but was still
very cool. I went to Tokyo (again!! :P) to see the Tokyo Yonex Japan Open!! Very cool :D It was on a Friday so I took the night bus on Thurday night at 11 pm and got to Tokyo on Friday morning at about 6 am. Man that was a rough journey!! next time I need to bring a pillow!! Was surreal to see Tokyo so early in the morning. Was pratically empty (^^)
Anyway the hall was very nice and quite packed which was suprising, although mostly older viewers I noticed. Here some pictures and video too!!




Got to see Taufik, Lin Dan, and Cai and Yu so I was well chuffed (^-^)
Had to take the Shinkansen back due to having work the next day. Bus is like hlaf the price of the bullet train so if it was possible I would have done that :/
The next week was a busy one, because I only had the one day off. The Sunday was taken up by a spot of teaching training. A tedious affair by all accounts but some nice ideas were given and we made the time fly by with lot of inappropiate jokes :P
That night the other teachers and I spent the night downing beers on school premises haha a good night ruined only by one of the teachers misplacing his ipod video :(((
On to last week and it turned out to be and ok week.
Work was work, Friday I played some Tennis rescheduled from my usual Sunday. The reason? I got to play some Badminton!!! woohoo!! Was so good to play again. Played ok considering I haven't played in so long. Have a mean cross court round the head jump smash now, but the other way is a bit iffy and needs work :/ Also got invited to another Badminton session on Saturday nights by some of the guys, and also to a tournament in November!! Which will be fun to the max!! Playing with an old man so I'll have to play all out and cover all the court but still, fun!! :D
And that's all folks, ja ne from the land of Japan.




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Some news is better than no news :))

Wwwwwhhaaattt another update!!!??
Yep!! :)) another!! and even though my bro is being a lazy so and so, I am trying at least a little.
So first up anything different to report? well how about a little trip to the Tokyo Game Show!! So this happened last weekend, another teacher named Scott and I ventured all the way to Tokyo for the day to see a lot of gamage and lora lora booth babes!!! Not going to post any pictures here but I've upped a lot of pictures here for your viewing pleasure ;-P http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/4050979
The show was very good and packed to max!! ssssooo many people!! you wouldn't believe!! Much to mine and Scotts' disappointment Nintendo didn't make an appearance :((( although some games were there and we were able to see the machin in action, we weren't able to get hands on it and test it out gggrr!!!
Here's a video of a Nintendo wii game called elebits, a wacky game that has you searching you surroundings for little aliens called elebits:

So though we were a little disappointed we were cheered up up by the many many many booth babes :D (see link above) All of which were absolutely gggoorgeous and kawaii as well.
Apart from that not much else to say, apart from a change in schedule this month.
I've mentioned before my problem class was a group of kids in a school in Mikawa Anjo. Well I've been booted out of that school and moved to a school closer to home.
I've been told it's because one of the mothers asked for a different teacher and my boss in the end said yes. On the one hand I'm happy not to face that class again, although it was only the one boy who was annoying, and if he wasn't there I'm sure it would have been fine. On the other hand I'm disappointed not have to have had a chance to work it out. I'm a kind of guy who likes to finish what he starts and doesn't like things half done :/ and a big blow for me is that two of my favourite classes were at that school. A kids class and a high school one both of which I enjoyed teaching immensely. So I'll finish with some pictures from my last day at Mikawa Anjo School:
- The lovely receptionist Kazuko
- Sweet highschooler Natsuki
- Funny and cute Kanako
- My favourite class, from the back Rina,Chihiro,Reo and Yugo. Cute and sweet and all smart to boot a perfect mixture and fun to teach.
- The problem class, from the front Hikari, Konamu and Rena were very nice kids just Kosuke in the back who was a pain
And finally a group of very nice housewives




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