Merry Christmas!

Well I finished work a few days ago and since then its been so much fun! Have done loads of the obligatory Karaoke - and trying to chose the stupidist songs - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was high on the list.
Went to Ginza for Christmas eve and had drinks in a very posh restuarant. Then Christmas day we tried to get to a place that sold traditional Christmas dinner but we unfortunately forgot all the information telling about such places so we wandered round until 5 ish before we were able to go to an Italian restaurant called La Boheme (!) for roast chicken, potatoes, salad and lovely red wine (well its sort of Christmas lunch). Then into Shibuya for a few more drinks before getting the last train home only to spend the next 3 hours doing injustices to other peoples songs again. Boxing day was spent recovering and then cleaning our new flat - which is now looking something like inhabitable ready for Gina to come out to visit.
Have got a busy schedule planned for the next 2 weeks until I go back to work so will keep this up to date at a later stage.
Merry Christmas all - it was not the same out here without seeing ya'll! Hope you all enjoy the festive season nonetheless!
Photos to follow sooooo soon!!

Jingle bells...

Christmas has hit Japan and how they go for it here. Some of the decorations look nice - some hideous. One of the Christmas trees near where I live has been entirely drenched in gaudy purple sheets. You can barely see tree beneath it. Now I know you could possibly say the same is true in the UK, but I'd still argue its worse here and as for the canned music - I have never heard so many bad variations of Jingle bells.
There. I've done it, the compulsory moan about Christmas. You can take a girl out of England....Actually I am looking forward to Christmas out here. It will be my first away from home and that will be wierd but there is plenty of stuff to do here and I get two and a half weeks to travel round and do some cool things. Like breaking my legs snowboarding for example.
Had fun celebrating my birthday on Saturday. We really did it in style. I perhaps was not as restrained as I should have been on the old beerus and gin n tonicus but then again it was my quarter of a century. Of course karaoke was involved and I got to bed at 9am he he. oops.
Have got a really busy couple of weeks coming up before the holiday. I am moving into a new and much nicer flat with a couple of other teachers so I'm looking forward to that but it does mean that I also have to repeat just about all the paperwork I had to do when I first got here. I will have to make yet more use of my 'please be gentle I'm a foreigner' face.
Sayonara