Lauren don't leave!!!!!!!

A full year has passed since Lauren came to Sendai, and now, sadly, she's heading back to Canada. We held a farewell party for her with many of her students on Saturday June 9th. It was a great time and it was followed by a second party at karaoke. I stumbled my way out of the karaoke booth at 3am (while everyone else stayed until God knows when), having drunk more than I should have. I was dreading playing my baseball game the next day, but luckily it was cancelled due to rain. We've had many fun nights like that and I'm sure we'll have more with the next teacher Michael, but it just won't be the same....

Lauren's heading back to Vancouver on the 13th and in July she will head to Nova Scotia for Graduate school. I hope she does well. And tonight we're having another farewell party for her. All the Geos teachers in Miyagi prefecture and some close friends are going to an okonomiyaki restaurant to have fun all over again. I'd better go easy on the booze tonight, or else Monday will be another write-off(>_<).

Golden Week

I always seem to be a month behind on my updates. These pictures are from Golden Week, which was the first week in May. Oh well, better late than never.

I had 9 days off at the beginning of May. During last year's Golden Week I did a lot of travelling with my parents, but this year was much more quiet. I went to an onsen and had some nights out drinking with my friends, but the highlight was a 2 day trip to my friend Satoshi's house outside of Sendai.

I went with Satoshi and our friend Toshio to a small hot spring town called Tohgatta. Satoshi's parents in-law have a summer house there, so as we were driving there I imagined a small old fashioned style house. Instead we pulled up at a massive modern house with 2 garage doors, a personal hot spring bath and enough sleeping space for about 10 people. Civil servants seem to live well in Japan(^_^).

We had a typical boy's time of it, with lots of beer, barbeque and table tennis matches, followed by playing Nintendo Gamecube in the evening before bed. And I got to use the hot spring bath twice; so relaxing. It was a great time and I hope I can do it again.

As for the rest of May, things got back to normal after the holiday and the month went by quickly. My baseball team only played once in May (one game was cancelled due to a lack of players and the game on June 10th was cancelled because of rain), but we won the game and I got a couple of hits (I was 0 for 3 in the previous game). I'm looking forward to the next gam on June 24th.

Talk to you later!!