Your weekly udate

It's maybe been a bit over a week actually-sorry about that. We are getting thinner by the day. I may be forced to eat my English grammar texts lest I lose the energy to type. Actually things are going well! I've picked up some more privates so I'm working approximately 28 hours-a month! As it stands though that's more than enough pay for my rent and food and maybe a few luxuries so I'm really doing alright. If I had had the foresight to hand out my business cards to all my students before Nova went spiraling into the ground I would probably be working 28 hours a week instead and making more money than I ever did with Nova! You know what they say about hindsight though!

I'm trying to use my free time to study for the big Japanese test on December 2nd. You'd think that with a lot of free time you would have lots of free time to study but actually it means that you have lots of free time to waste. In fact I should be studying right now instead of posting this! But I'll get right to it after this I promise. I tried a listening practice test last night and was overjoyed to realize that I actually got most of it. My listening is my biggest weakness.

There are a couple of new members in our house that I have failed to mention so far. The first is an aquarium. I bought it a couple months ago actually, before things went horribly wrong with Nova. I've got four Zebra Danio fish in there and two Amano shrimps. The shrimps are a lot of fun to watch and real easy to take care of (I don't feed them they just eat stuff off the bottom) so I think today I'm going to go out and get a bunch more. Here's a video:



The second new family member, which I got just a couple of days ago is this:

Yes I know, Mom is probably cringing and saying what I silly boy I am! But I figured heck, if I'm going to have a lot of time off in the next couple of months then this is exactly what I need. And with my 18,000 yen worth of Bic Camera points and the high Cdn dollar, on my credit card it only came to about $180 which is a full $170 less than it cost me to buy a PS2 in 2003!

I'll have some more updates soon but now I gotta go do a little studying before my next private lesson at 3 o'clock!