Is that Santa drinking and smoking??

Well here's one of my overdue updates (as usual). I have no excuse because I didn't do much in January, except going to a few New Year's drinking parties and working (>_<). So all of these pictures are from December.

The first picture is from my school's Christmas party on December 16th. That's Mike dressed up as Santa (kind of). This pic was taken during the first of 3 consecutive parties we had that day. It's amazing what teachers have to do to keep their students entertained (^_^). The second picture is my school's staff party on December 23rd. That was only a "2 party" night, but the second bar we went to had lots of drinks and karaoke altogether.

The third picture is on Christmas Day. My Geos friends and I had a classic ex-pat Christmas with lots of beer, good movies, homemade food (with Chrtistmas crackers from England) and Nintendo Wii. This was my second Christmas away from home and it was a good time; but if I had a choice, I would still prefer to be sitting on the couch in Corunna watching Wallace & Gromit videos and eating cheeseball, shrimp and homemade dip with the fam.

Of course if I'd been back in Canada for Christmas, then I wouldn't have been able to go to a hot spring resort with Nao. I guess I haven't mentioned her yet, but Nao is my girlfriend. We met in October and have been seeing each other since late November. That's her taking a picture of our dinner as I'm doing the same thing, hehe. We spent one night at a hotel south of Sendai on December 28/29th. It was so relaxing and the town (Tsuchiyu), was very beautiful.

So those were all the big events in December. My New Year's Eve was very quiet and involved a few dvds, and I met one of my ex-coworkers early in the new year. After that it was back to work and the last month has flown by as a result of all the rest I had. Anyway, I'll tryyyyyy to update again soon with some more pictures. Stay tuned please (^_^).