Catching up

Last night I finaly got around to ringing up my old host family. I haven't seen them in about 7 years. It was heaps dodgy the first time I rang them because I just got the grandma and she couldn't hear me properly and had no idea who I was. But this time the parents were home and she passed me off to the bloke who knew who I was. I am going out with them on Sunday to see the Konko music concert. It was good to talk to them though. Their daughter, who stayed at my house when I was in high school, is currently in Tokyo studying at a foreign language uni, English and Thai. She's coming home in late September so hopefully I will get to meet her then. Actually September is very quickly filling up with things to do. The ALT who lives above me is going away for a couple of weeks and asked me to fill in and teach a couple of his private English classes. I have so far managed to avoid teaching any private classes, despite pressure to do so from various people, but I figure it can't hurt to just fill in for a couple of weeks. It is good money and I will need it to cover what I lose from my salary because of my holidays.

This weekend it seems I am off to Okayama for an Aussie reunion of some description. I assume this means there will be plenty of beer drinking and etc. Not altogether a bad thing...