What next?

The last day of the year I am spending wandering Hiroshima with my bag (quite heavy) and my books (reason the bag is heavy) and myself (heavier than I look). Last night I caught up with some friends and we ended up in Gs Bar singing karaoke and dishing out love advice left and right. I didn't even really drink that much, just stuffed from lack of sleep I reckon. Had a slight snooze in one bar... can't remember the name of it. It was so small that only 6 people could fit along the bar so I was sitting on the couch behind (literally right behind) the bar stools blocking the path to the loo. At 5am ish I stumbled into this here internet cafe where I am free to rest until 2pm ish. I'm starving hungry, but when I went to the loo before I looked outside and it was raining so I might just wait until 2 to brave the elements. My bus leaves Hiroshima at 8pm tonight and arrives in Tokyo at about 7am I think. So it'll be a happy new year for me if the bloke next to me isn't the snoring type! Once, on a bus back to Hiroshima from Tokyo I was sitting in front of a bloke who just would NOT stop snoring until evenutally a young guy leaned over, shook him and told him to shut the hell up or get off the bus. YAY! He shut up. It seems to me that the Japanese have a lot of snorers in their midst since every internet cafe I stay in you can usually hear a few of them buzzing away like a demented choir. Not today though, I think I am the only one here today. The Japanese spent the New Year with their families so it will be pretty quiet out and about today. Tomorrow everyone will do the temple thing (except me) and eat heaps of food. On the 2nd the shops open up again with New Years sales and everyone goes out with their purse full of New Years money and elbows people out of the way so they don't miss the best bargains. I will be joining them this year, much as I dread it, because I have heard of a place that may sell boots in my gargantuan size. We'll see.

Well, I wish everyone a fun and safe New Year's Eve celebration. 2006 brought many new things for me. Well, it was my first year being a real adult worker bee rather than a student. Just like the year 1s pine for their kindy years, I do miss my student lifestyle. I do NOT miss the study, or the working various jobs at all kinds of odd hours making just enough to cover myself, but I do miss having free time during the day, having time to read more often and student discounts! And the unibar of course, slightly dodgy as it may be. Hopefully 2007 will bring me a better job, a better location, a new language (I reckon Spanish needs looking at), more sport and fitness (touch, I have missed you so), piano lessons, a motorbike license, good times with good friends and a certain amount of domestic felicity... How about that for a start at least? Bring on 2007 I say!