Friends & birthdays

Had an absolutely fantabulous day yesterday! Went to my Japanese class in the morning, and was learning all these new adjectives - it made my brain hurt, but when she marked my homework from the previous week, I got it almost all right!! Yay!! Then Erika and Odette (2 Dutch girls from Jap class) and I went to the movies - my first time in Japan!! We saw The Chocolate Factory - very fun!!! We went to Starbucks for a little while, then they left to get on with their days, but I stayed for a while to study. I ended up chatting to these two 25yr old Japanese chics, and we swapped numbers, so will hopefully catch up some day. I eventually toodled off to work at 5pm and had fun there for 4 hrs - my 3 little chibikos (2yr olds) were absolutely adorable!! After work we went out for Korean BBQ to welcome the new guys and celebrate Martina's b'day (today - Happy Birthday Martina!!!) - we all absolutely stuffed ourselves with red meat - that's my iron fix for the next month! I was home in bed by 1am, feeling all happy and snug under my doona now that we have nice cool weather. Big smiley day!!

Tomorrow I'm off to Okinawa for 3 nights - yay!! I'll be visiting Chizuru, a Nova staff member who was transferred there for a couple of months... we'll spend time hanging out at the beach, and whatever else takes our fancy - should be fun!

Hugs & kisses to you all!!