Ok, so I've finished blogging Winter Vacation, now for a short catch up (mostly because I can't remember much about the last 2 months that needs to be said, damn my memory). The picture above is from when the New Zealand students came to Junten for about a week. I only really did a few things with them, since I wasn't invited to disney land (pfft...). On one saturday, some weekends ago, we took them around parts of Tokyo. What a disaster that was. I was one of the three group leaders but since they hadn't told me where we were going or at what time, I was pretty much lost and had to follow the PTA members. So much for group leader, eh? Nothing really happened that day, we went to a series of places but actually did nothing, at all. Never mind.
The only other activity I participated in, with the New Zealanders, was the setsubun (sp?) celebrations. Setsubun is the Japanese day before the start of Spring in the lunar calendar. Essentially someone dresses up like a devil (an 'oni') and the others pelt beans at him. And then eat the beans. Can't say that's not an epic household festival, can you? Was a pretty good day: only a half day at work, I pelted beans at some students in masks, got some free food. Not bad, not bad.
I don't think I ever mentioned them much here, but we lost two men in action. Trevor, the Pennsylvanian exchange student, and Mikhal, the Pennsylvanian (turned New Zealander) exchange student, both went home after spending a fair slab of time here. It was quite weird to see them go, since they've both been around since I came to Junten and its been alot quieter since they left, as we're now down to one exchange student. Anyhow, this pic here is the last pic of the three Mikes O' Junten. Sadly, we never got a picture of Quadruple Mike, when Paxman was here, so Triple Mike will have to do.
Will try to keep more up to date so that I don't find myself stuck for things to say like now, but I'm not making promises.
Laters
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