Sake + Jo = Loud in any language

Wow. Last night was SO much fun!! The people who came from Nishi were all the ones I really actually like. About 9 of us all up. We gto stuck in early and for some stupid reason I decided to forsake my usual beverage of choice and have a crack at some sake. Shilly billy. The converstaion at the restaurant was hilarious and Yamamuro got pissed as a fart and was all telling the waiter that his beer glass wasn't big enough (it was practically a jug) and the waiter was all apologising as though it really was his fault. They must have been glad to see the back of us. Bloody hell, I didn't even have to pay for it! I totally forgot about that. I was the guest of honour.

Caught the last train home and went on to a wee karaoke box of Yamamuro's mates and sang and drank further with just the 4 of us. Oh man, today my head is thumping!! I came into work an hour and a half late. No one cared. There are only 3 of them in the office besides me. Oh, I managed to have a word to Yamamuro about Monday. He asked me a week ago if I wanted to go water skiing with him and some of the nishi crew but I couldn't cos I can't take any more holidays. I told him that if he rings up the school here and "requests my presence for something" at Nishi all day I can get out of school. He's gonna call today!! Totally working the system and loving it.

Oh yeah, that reminds me. Yesterday the new ALTs for the middle schools in Konko and Yoroshima arrived. They are both Aussies. Hirai asked me to come to the BOE and help them out and I arrived just as they were signing their contracts and getting their certificates and stuff. Afterwards they had a big sit down and wanted to tell them stuff about their workplace, what to wear, how to take sick days and stuff and they got me to translate! It was HEAPS of fun. Hirai can speak English, but when I am around he usually tends to slip into Jap and let me translate for him because it makes him so nervous using English. So for an hour or so I was actually using all those years of study for something kind of specialist!! It was heaps exciting - sure it's not the UN, they weren't discussing who's hiding what nukes, but I was still acting as an intermediary for communicative purposes! So yesterday was a good day for my Japanese - I actually felt like I haven't been wasting my time over here. So yeah, just gonna take a few moments to be heaps pleased with myself if you don't mind.

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