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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Best of luck to all the 3rd years at Onoda Technical High School who are leaving soon. You've been great fun and have made me laugh a lot. I will miss you.

I hope you all do well in your exams.

ファイト！
See you around...
マーク

藤井君

情報科

化学科三年

石川君

　機械科三年

フェリペ君

Monday, January 29, 2007

Hitting the Slopes near Hiroshima めがひら　スキー

After a 6.30am start we arrived at Megahira ski resort near Hiroshima at about 9.30am. The skiing was awesome and Miyake Sensei and his family made me really welcome. The star of the day was Ya chan (Miyake Sensei's 5 year old son) who is the bravest 5 year old I have ever met. Bearing in mind it was my second time skiing and the last time was about 7 years ago... I was a little nervous but Miyake Sensei's eldest son Mo kun (11 years old) a good skier kindly showed me the ropes and took me to the highest peak where I promptly bombed down at break neck speed without being able to apply the brakes! To avoid breaking limbs I bowled over. By the end of the day I managed to master stopping.... although not instantly!

Ya chan is fearless... the mountain was pretty steep and difficult, but he didnt bat an eyelid at being gently pushed down from the highest run. It was Ya chan at the end of the day who was up for one last run before going home despite the fact he was tired and half asleep!

Great day followed by a meal and onsen hot springs.

Thank you Miyake Sensei and family... I want to again now!

三宅先生ありがとうございました

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　あけまして　おめでとう　ございます

Happy New Year to you all... wishing you all the best of health, prosperity, luck and fortune in 2007 (the year of the wild boar)

Myself and Matt had a fantastic time in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. We arrived in KL on Christmas eve. Having left cold cold Japan we werent quite expecting the 30+ degree heat that hit us when we stepped off the plane.

Christmas Day we had curry for breakfast and went and sat by the pool. I was burnt within an hour! The hotel was excellent and the view of the Petronas Towers (2nd tallest building in the world) from our room was amazing. The Petronas Towers are awesome - every street corner gives you a different view and having spent 5 days in KL I never tired of looking at this incredible building day or night. As we missed out on getting up to the skybridge (there are just 800 tickets a day and you have to get there really early) we had to settle with the KL Tower instead which was equally as impressive and a lot higher than you can go up PT anyway.

The overnight train to Singapore

After 4 days we headed south on the 10 hour overnight train to Singapore. For less than 7pounds we had a reasonably comfortable bed. Despite the over-flowing toilet swishing in the compartment like a scene from Titanic on the way there, the journey wasnt as bad as expected! You had to be careful when moving between carriages though as most of the doors were left wide open!