Yes It has been over a month since I have posted. Time here just goes too quick and I cant keep up. School is going good and weekends have been packed with fun adventures. I will try to update more when things happen. I know I have left stuff out. Great things I have thought of and thought, ooh I need to tell everyone.
Last friday my host family and I went to Matsue city, visited its 400year old castle and things. Was a great day with host family. Speaking of host family, I now answer the phone, everyone in the area knows I am a member of the family. In Japan on new years everyone makes their own individual post card things and they send them to friends. My name is going on ours this year!
Have been really enjoying having Ashley around too, my schools ALT. A few weeks ago we encountered a "snack" bar. A one roomed small bar where you can drink, do karaoke etc the only difference is these bars are almost always owned by middle aged ladies and they sit there with you and socialise, you pay for their company too, reaally expensive. Anyway It`s great how even in Japan they have those ladies with the overdyed dry frizzy hair and raspy voices due to too much smoking, all tacky like and slightly scary. The world goes on.
Another very fun adventure in the last month was Climbing Mt. Daisen. This mountain is in the Tottori prefecture and was roughly 2km high. I really enjoyed climbing a mountain. The few days following the climb I felt very accomplished. Climbing a big mountain is a simple but satisfying endeavor. " I climbed a mountain on the weekend" Good. Next.
Also helped out with hosting a Halloween party for around 40 primary school kids. This was a fun filled day! I mainly worked in the "obakeyashiki" - ghost house. I enjoyed the creativity involved in thinking up ways to scare the kids.
Sometime last month I also travelled to Izumo Taisha (a Temple.. Shrine?). Historical place where gods come. This trip was arranged by the teachers of my sunday Japanese classes. A Nice day, I enjoyed being a tourist on that day, with the camera, backpack and the hat thing going on. We had a tour bus and everything. As a foreign tourist I recieve many less bemused glances as opposed to when I am in my school uniform. I even got stopped by the police in my school uniform once. They wanted to know who I was and why I was here.
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