Sambasambasamba

I had a bit of a tops weekend. Saturday I spent with my old host family. The daughter, who came and stayed with my family 6 years ago and who I stayed with on my trip to Japan, now lives in Tokyo. She is studying English and Thai and is also a member of the uni samba club so she is all Brazily and stuff. Obviously the last time I spoke to them I was pretty crap at Jap and their English was limited, although a lot better than my Jap so we didn't get much conversation going. But I always thought they were a cool bunch of people and on Saturday I had my suspicions confirmed. For the first time people were not only understanding my jokes, but laughing at them! It was great. We went by car to a Brazilian themed fun park near the Setohashi. It was a pretty much dead, even though it was a saturday and a public holiday. Appraently it is pretty old now so it's not as popular. There was a stage show with Brazilian music and dancers and they dragged us up on stage to bop around with them. It didn't take them long to recognise that M had had a bit of samba experience and they got her out to dance with them properly. It was heaps of fun.

We went on a whole bunch of roller coaster type rides and they were all pretty much scary enough for me. Actually the worst one was the Turbo Drop. Since I hate heights it wasn't too much fun being hoisted way up into the air with my legs just dangling there. When we got to the top there was no count down or anything, you were just left there for an indetermined amount of time and then suddenly whoooof - down you go, then before you reach the bottom it shoots you back up to the top again and then down and up and down and up before you finally get to the bottom. It was FREAKY. Good view of the Seto inland sea, but not enough to make me ride it twice thankyou!

Saturday night was spent at M's house eating yummy yukisoba and various other foods. I saw some pictures of me from high school which were not all that fun to look at... Did I actually ever look in the mirror before I left the house back then? It was a really fun night and it's too bad that M lives in Tokyo - although probably good for her cos she seems to be really enjoying life which a lot more than most people seem to manage these days...

Sunday was spent studying and exercising and generally doing house stuff. The weather here recently has been splendid. Clear blue skies, little wind and high 20s. Lovely. It is just hanging on to summer before the big dip into winter so I better get the most out of it! Next weekend my shcool has a parents day so I will be working. I have to do a year 2 English class - their topic for the next month was supposed to be Halloween but I changed it to insects cos I don't know anything about Halloween and I dont see how it is relevant to them either. The vocab was heaps random; black cat, witch, jack-o-lantern, ghost.... I don't think they'll need to know that kind of shit.