sayonara

so it's the end.....

time to say goodbye.

It's been.....amazing....a learning experience...lots of things have changed....

I am going to miss Japan. It's my favourite country so far. The people, the way of life, the attitudes...countries can take some note of it and should adapt a few things in to their culture from it. I hope I will be back here someday.

otosan in nihon

Happy easter everybody!

I actually have to thank Alex for reminding me of this fact...I totally forgot...

Today was a beautiful day though. Dad arrived on thursday, and after a bout in Tokyo, some sushi with Minae and kenta, pool and darts with the wednesday crew..we finally got some sleep. Today then Franny suggested going on a bike tour around some park areas and along the sea to my fave school! After some initial bike/lock problems we went off. First stop was a temple...cherry blossoms were almost green, but a few were left over and it was beautiful. I had never been there...I never realised Numazu was so amazing...shame I notice in the last few days of my stay here. Typical really?

We then went off to the park. there was a lake with people fishing all over the place. We also observed some major gang rape going on between the ducks. There were 8 males and one poor female, who eventually got saved by a concerned japanese guy who kicked the males away, while the female duck was hiding behind him....awwwwwww

They had the ducks with blue bills too!!!! I saw those in Oz! how awesome???

We then cycled towards the sea, along the river, the view was fantastic! When we got to my school some of my boys were playing baseball, and we were greeted with loud cheers. They all were suprised by seeing my dad...asking "nihongo-jin???" I was trying to explain no...there are people that look asian but aren't necessarily japanese! It was so cool to see them again, we played some 'rock, paper, scissors' and laughed a lot...I am so going to miss those kids....sigh

In the evening we went off to have some okonomiyaki and got dad and Hanh to make the food for us...lol not bad at all!