So anyways yeah I'm back in Japan. Flight was uneventful. They had a new (to me anyways) Boeing 777 which has TV's in the back over every chair. Touch screen too-I watched at least three movies and one tv show. There was a heck of a lot of Brazilians on the flight over. They were all wearing the same shirts so they must have been part of some kind of special group of some sort. I looked at them smugly as I passed them while they stood in front of pictures of Mt Fuji at the airport and took pictures of each other. "Tourists!" I thought to myself.

New blog is going well! Are you checking it out? Unfortunately I haven't discovered any Cucumber Pepsi's around, despite searching every convenience store in a one block radius (25). We'll see how much posting on my blog I do-not much would be the answer so far! I've solved the riddle of how to do everything I want to do in one day simply by cramming it all into one day. I have several things that I don't want to give up - I don't want to stop going to the gym, reading books, studying Japanese or playing videogames. I also have to fit the internet in there somewhere. Not to mention soccer and Fumiko. Basically I've been trying to limit myself to 30 minutes of computer a day to give my studying chances a boost. I have a stopwatch and everything! You wouldn't believe how fast 30 minutes can go buy. You can probably understand that that doesn't leave much time for posting on blogs!

I try to read an hour a night and I've been trying to get to bed by 12am. That means that I've got to read 60 minutes worth in the next 5 minutes. I've also been drinking a glass of red wine most nights with my dinner! Jared just said that he was finally able to put his finger on what's different about me since I got back. He says, "You got old."

Dinner and a movie

The Unveiling

Well it's up-my new blog. When I went home, the big news that was circulating about Japan was the man who dropped his 3-year old child off at the baby drop of centre. Weird, right? Well that's not even scratching the surface! There's no end to strange events coming out of Japan. Most of them you'll probably never hear about in Canada. Therefore I will be skimming the national news and try to filter out all the boring old stuff leaving you the reader with only the juiciest tidbits of information. Sometimes it will be comical, sometimes gruesome (think of boy who walks around with his mother's head in his bag), sometimes quirky, sometimes interesting, sometimes informational and possibly occasionally boring if there's ever an off day. One thing is certain-it will probably be updated more regularly than this blog. First, crazy stuff happens every day and secondly it's easy on the creative side of my brain-this stuff writes itself!

Anyways enough-check it out and see what you think:

notablenipponnews.blogspot.com

I'm back!

I had a great vacation in Canada and I returned to Japan safely and a little less white than when I left. Let me tell you, not having to suffer through 28.8kbps internet is just amazing. I'll have some pics up soon-it takes a while to get all unpacked and back into a normal way of life.

In other news, a bit of a teaser here, stay tuned for an altogether new blog by yours truly. This one has the potential to be a lot better than it's predecessor for the simple reason that it's not about me! Give me a week to get the kinks ironed out and get a bit of content on there and then it should be fit for release to general public consumption.