lazy lazy

hi! man this has been such a lazy weekend. I mean, not counting Sat night. After this busy week of parent observations I took the train to Tokyo and had a night out with some friends I made at my follow up training a few weeks ago. It was great to see them again and spend time with a different group of people. I've made so many neat friends here! We danced the night away and also watched some of the world cup at the first bar I've ever been to in Tokyo, the week of New Years! Anyways that was a fun night and I ended up wanting to crash at like 4 in the morning.. my train back home wasnt until 6:40! but I made it and slept for most of Sunday. I was able to skype with Amy during her graduation party which was awesome catching up with lots of old friends. I miss those kids.

I also got into the show Mad Men so I've been watching that every chance I get, trying to catch up to season 4 that starts in July. Im on season 3 so I've made good progress. I watched a lot of that yesterday. Today I didn't wake up until 1:30 and have done nothing since then. Im going to head out in a bit to pick up dry cleaning though and maybe find a rain coat. Its rainy season in Japan so ..... lots of rain and its very humid.

I finally got to eat REAL (as real as it gets out here) PIZZA! Last weekend I visited travis and zach in shizuoka city and we ordered pizza la  .... it was amazing. but SO expensive. 1 large pie was around 30 bucks. gah. We got 3 pizzas haahha whoops. it was a great dinner and breakfast the next morning after a night of karaoke.

open up with your smile!!!

So i have some cool stuff coming up in July.. maybe for 4th of july we'll have a bonfire on the beach. and I might take a trip to Hiroshima to go fishing with Adam. Its also my birthday at the end of the month and theres goign to be a huge fireworks festival in Numazu and Atami so I want to go see that. AND im going to shizuoka city with a huge group of people at travis's to see the unveiling of a giant Gundam Robot. should be a good month. Hopefully work won't be as stressful now that parent observations are over. It wasn't too bad though. Two weeks of parents being in the classroom.... for my older students though their parents didnt really show up. And my younger kids behaved better while their moms were watching them in the classroom so that actually made things a little smoother. No complaints from parents so thats good!! 

Hope everyones doing well. Feel free to leave me a message

OH also i should add...... I extended my contract. Im now staying in Japan until the end of May. I can't believe I've been here for 7 months now. I'll get some nice vacations out of it so I'm pleased.