Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Hi ALL!!
Well.. Its really really snowing here now! YAY!! We had a snow warning today and we have another one tomorrow! :) The pictures are are taken at Kanazawa castle not far from here! I went there today to get the last of everyone`s Chrisi pressi`s and got a little side tracked... Dont worry, dont worry.. i still got ya presents lol!
I really cant get over how beautiful the snow is! Its just amazing.. there is like a half a metre of snow right outside my door but unfortunatly no-one will go out and make a snowman with me :( BOO to you people!)
Im going to be away from tomorrow so i wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year!!! teehee! have a good one and take care!
Cheers!! bub bye :)

Yuki Daruma

Went to a town in the mountains today to play basketball and there was a heap more snow there than in Komatsu so Nao and me made this little yuki daruma (snowman) aint he cute! I asked him if he wanted to come back to Australia with me but apparently him and summer dont get along too well and he prefers winter better... Strange little fellow! lol
We won our basketball game too.. hooray! Mind you we played with only our uniform singlets and shorts on... In snowing weather.. in a gym with no heater! It was absolutely FREEZING! but apparently its the rules that you cant even wear a shirt underneath the singlet... hmm thats the Japanese for ya! Anyways my coach took me out for lunch.. the shop was called fish and chips.. i got sooo excited only to find that it was more of a wedges, katsu potato and miso soup shop :( so dissapointed! Had fun though!!! P.s Its snowing..... YAY!!!

Its Snowing..... HOORAY!

Its snowing! Its snowing! Its snowing! yay yay yay yay! Josh and i stayed up till 12:30 this morning waiting for it to snow and HOORAY! it did! Then we played in it for about an hour and a half! Sorry to those people i rang at 2:30 in the morning in AUS.. teehee (not really) It snowed sooo much that when Josh left for Nagoya on Monday morning he had to follow the snow plough home! HEHE! The right hand pic is taken in a town 30 mins away from me.... HOORAY FOR SNOW :) :)

Snow in the Mountains!!!!

Its started snowing in the mountains!!! HOORAY! Here is a pic of the famous mountain in Komatsu "Mt Hakusan" This means it will be snowing here soon! HOORAY! Im excited! Come on snow.. bring it on! :)

Christmas Lights in Nagoay!

Here are some pics of the Christmas lights at Nagoya station! They are really awsome! The bottom right lights are the pictures the Japanese people see in the stars! The station is like a mini animation with all the stars moving etc. Keep in mind that the bottom right lights cover about 9 stories of the Nagoya station building! :)

Flea Market in Nagoya!

I came to Nagoya yesterday! YAH! Today i went to the biggest flea market in Japan! Josh, Yoichi and his sister had a store at the market and we were supposed to be there early this morning.. didnt happen of corse! We ended up getting there just before 10am and by then we wernt allowed to use the carts to take all the boxes in to the stall so we had to carry everything by hand! And of course our stall was on the far side of the grounds... rrr... My arms are killing me! Anyway while everyone was working at the stall i managed to do a whole day of shopping and bargaining with the stall owners!!! (you have never seen so many stalls!) It was exhausting but awsome!

At the end of the day Josh, Yoichi and his sister made me nabe for dinner for helping them! mmm it was well worth the sore arms :)

Ninja Temple

Today was a public holiday here in Japan... Labour thanksgiving day..... so i went to Kanazawa and visited the Ninja Dera or Ninja Temple!!! It was really great! The temple has 4 floors and 7 layers but from the outside is only looks like 2 layers because they wernt supposed to have buildings anymore than 3 stories high back in the Edo period. The temple was moved by the third lord, Toshitsune to its current location in 1643. This Temple also known as Myoryuji has braved the elements for more than three hundred and fifty years and survived world war 2. It has 23 rooms and 29 staircases. It has loads of secret rooms, trick doors and even a suicidal room where once you were in you couldnt get out and was often used for the ninja`s who lost battles..here they would have to kill themselves by slitting their own stomachs. It also has a water well which is made out of the same stone as Kanazawa castle on the other side of the river... Apparently there is an underground tunnel from the temple to the castle but this is yet to be discovered! Its such a fabulous, interesting and mysterious place! Go see it!!

p.s... I also found the Body Shop!! YAH!!!

Car Troubles....Again!

My car broke down again :(
Luckily i broke down right outside a fix it shop and it turns out that i prolly didnt need a new battery last week either!! rrr Apparently my fan belt- or some belt- was loose and therefore wasnt charging my battery!! Surprise surprise!!
Anyway i got it fixed for 15 bucks teehee... turns out i teach the Mr fix it mans kid at work.. I knew work would come in handy at some time... :) all i need to do now is find a dentist!!
Anyways..... im on the road again---- BEWARE!

How to leave messages on my blog!

Hi Everyone!

Sorry, i didnt realise that you had to be a member to comment on my blogs. I have now changed the setting so you dont have to sign up to be a member! Anyone can comment! HOORAY!
night night

Dont feed the Foreigner!

Rrr, had someone come into my class WHILE I WAS TEACHING today and take pics for another paper…How rude.. I wasn’t impressed!!! im starting to feel like im in a zoo " Come see the stupid foreigner or #Alian# as it says on my foreign registration card (Im not kidding) extra 20 buck to feed her" rrr! Not impressed Kirsty person!

My Basketball buddies!

Here is a pic of my basketball team!!!


Went to Basketball tonight and had the newspaper people come and take a pic of me with the team and interview me! It actually wasnt as bad as i thought... Half of the training time i got to sit in the office where it is heated (HOORAY! mmm warm fuzzy`s) It certainly beated being in the gym where you have to train with a tracky suit on and a beanie teehee) i will post the article when it comes out... i dont even know when that is!

Got to go to an Italian resturant after training (10pm) They had "Aussie steak" HOORAY! Although it was expencive, i got it anyways and it was fab! MMM i will definetly be going back there :) Got home at 12:30am mmm i hope i get up in the morning.....

Night peoples (T_T)

A view of Komatsu

This is Komatsu!!! And NO you can`t see my apartment in this pic.. lol

Welcome to my Blog :)

Hi everyone!

Welcome to my Blog (teehee, I love that word!)
Now you can read about what I have been up to and hopefully I will be able to figure out how to attach pici`s for you all too J It will also help me- I wont have to repeat my weekends so many times…. Not that I mind of courseJ I will try to update it as much as possible.

For starters, everything is going great!

Last night I had to go to a recording studio and record some English stuff for a speech contest. I have never been to a recording studio before so it was great fun! After reading the “Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? And little blue and little yellow books we did some short conversations, and for the whole 15 mins of work we got a whole extra day of paid leave and a banquet for dinner! The people in the rotary club who organizes the speech contest are like millionaires and paid for all our dinner (and wouldn’t accept “no thank you, im full” for an answer) Got driven there and back in a really awesome Mercedes with as many buttons and gadgets as the bat mobile! Had a blast!
Anyways its nearly knock off time..

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