It's all very dull over here

Last night I went with the woman from the BOE who is organising my speech to buy prizes for the quiz. We went to a shop called Trend which sells imported goods. Oh, it was like being in food heaven in there. Real cheese, real meat (they even had turkey!), HEAPS of Aussie wines, chocolate, Berri fruit juice and all sorts of lollies and things that just made me feel SO homesick. They didn't have Coopers though or I would have come home with a lot more than what I did. I managed to limit myself to one bottle of red and some dried apricots (first time I've seen them in Japan) - although I ate the apricots last night, I didn't drink the bottle of red... Maybe tomorrow night. It was bloody long drive though. The shop is near Kurashiki which really isn't that far from here, but it took us over 2 hours to make the trip. We had a bit of a chat in the car about various things and I managed to dob everyone in who is teaching extra private English classes on the side... oops. Well, it's not as though the're going to do anything about it when the Mayor's wife is the one who is providing the classrooms and encouraging everyone to teach, she still gets on my case about it.

That's about the only excitement this week. Things are really very dull over here. Maybe sometime in about 3 weeks I'll have some real happening to report...