Akage no Avis-san

hey stupid douchefaces,

not really sorry for not posting much. Speaking of which you sound like my parents always nagging me for news (thanks to you ben btw). My posts of late would have just been: Went to uni today, same old stuff, went to the supermarket, went to bed. My life really isn't that interesting during the week.

Oh and also, if you damn read them can you comment or something.....it's all well and good to say you check, but if I don't know anyone is reading until they start bitching at me, puts me off from posting a bit. I am trying to figure out a better notification system. Facebook got a bit tedious and my sister has my msn so I can't think of anything other than just habitual checking. So shut your damn gobs and quit complaining.

ANYWAY, now that I actually have stuff to talk about I shall divulge. Apart from the usual weekday numbness that comes with university studies anywhere in the world. Friday night it was decided that we would go to Lake Biwa on the Saturday for a picnic. For those of you who don't know Lake Biwa is a lake....a pretty big one (unless Im mistaken it's the biggest in Japan)....anyway I shall get to that. So on friday night a whole bunch of us were in the upstairs kitchen helping to make sandwiches for the trip. Egg Salad and Ham an Cheese, I was a big help....if I do say so myself.

During the sandwich prep, someone opened a bottle of wine, probably Amy. Now this may not even relate to that fact at all (especially as I didn't have any) but Julia said she would clean up the dishes if we all sang Queen for her. A choir rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody ensued, top of our lungs type thing.....people were drawn out of their rooms to inquire, strangely the landlords or the house buddies didnt come to tell us to shut the hell up.

Another bright idea during this period was to go down to the basement and make use of one of the ofuros (baths) that we have in the house. And before you ask/have horrible nightmares.....we were clothed, at least somewhat....I turned a pair of my pyjama pants into shorts....everyone else wore swimming costumes. I think 7 people was the most we could fit in the bath, and it was damn hot (temperature wise you sickos)....but afterwards we were all so relaxed and tired, but we decided to play monopoly anyway.......I had to argue a lot, because people have stupid rules.....but anyway I couldnt finish coz I was so tired, I just went to bed.

Next day I got ready to go to bike to the train station with the gang. I tried to pump up my bike tires but it turns out they werent just flat, there was probably a small hole in it somewhere. So I figured I would just try to put up with it on the 5 minute trip to the station. I put the sandwiches in my backpack and we were off.......less that 20 metres from leaving, I realised the tyre is a big problem, my whole bike was wobbling like crazy, had to concentrate so hard just to stop myself from veering into oncoming traffic. And this wasn't just because I am terrible at riding my bike regardless.

Eventually through all this concentration i lost everyone who was in front of me.....it was just me and Yeiji from korea, and we didnt know which fork in the road they took so we guessed (take a stab at whether it was right or not)......so luckily Yeiji is practically fluent in japanese so she would keep asking people how to get to the station and they all said it was far. So i got off and walked my bike until we finally got to the station, but noone was there. We went inside and asked the ticket guy if any foreigners had been there.....he said they were there but left and he didnt know where. So we didn't know what to do, without phones or anything we didnt have any ideas, so we decided just to go home......when out of nowhere we here "THERE THEY ARE".....turns out they were looking for us (or the sandwiches in my bag I don't really know)

Train trip there was pretty good, took about an hour but we made it eventually......walked over to the "beach" and it was getting a bit windy and cold, but we didn't care.....we ate and talked it was a lot of fun. On the lake we saw these guys on jetskis, we kept waving at them and Yeiji said she wanted to have a go on one....although with her limited english it came out as "Ride me!"....which needless to say was HILARIOUS.......but yea japanese people are so nice we waved them over and offered them fruit and yeiji asked if she could have a go.....so they let her.....then Joc, Julia and Amy all had goes....we could hear them all screaming from shore, it looked great. We left and went home and were so tired we just went to bed.

So today I went to Kyoto station to meet none other than Ashleigh who was in town. It was good seeing a familiar face for the first time in a month. She had been on tours and stuff and said she just wanted to walk around the places you wouldn't ordinarily go to. So as I needed to get my bike fixed anyway I thought we'd kill two birds with one stone. We picked up my bike from the pharmacy car park where I left it the night before and attempted to walk it to the bike shop near my uni. Ordinarily it should take about 30 minutes, however I think I took the long route, and it took an hour and a half lol....but the walk was nice enough.

Anyway when we finally get to the bike shop it was freaking closed, so I just dumped my bike in a bike park nearby and decided I'd go back tomorrow when I'm at uni anyway. We were hungry so we decided to catch a random bus to anywhere,....turned out it was to Shijo Kawaramachi, which is the big shopping area....the bus was damn packed though. I think it was a special festival day or something because there were lots of parades....and more traffic than usual. The bus trip was horrible, so long. We said we just felt like something fatty and gross to eat........ENTER MACDONALDS......oh yes, my first maccas in over a month. We were so hungry (having had nothing all day) that we went to town on that place.....we probably undid all our walking in one sitting but it was so worth it. Anyway we then walked back to the station and I got on my bus to come home to do *sigh* homework :(

So that's my fun filled weekend. I shall post more when I actually do something....so keep checking....and actually comment something so I know who's reading. Idiots.

Love Y'all :D

Jono