Shisaa

By the way, I bought something in Miyakojima - photos when I've unpacked... I first saw Okinawan shisaa in Taketomi http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ekHIi91TTz-zkPx1vRztLA?feat=directlink 2 years ago... Well...

More photos from Miyakojima!

Well, I've just added some more photos from my holiday in Miyakojima. I've tried to keep the photos of sugarcane to a minimum - there is a lot of sugarcane and it is beautiful. Apparently sugarcane takes 2 years to harvest, hence the difference in heights.

Miyakojima

Well, I'm on holiday here on Miyakojima in Okinawa. You can find some photos from the last couple of days to the link on the right - more to come!

Tokyo Metro Manners poster

December 2009

Please do not pass out on the metro - do it at home...

Christmas classroom

The artistic prowess of children aged 5 to 11 at one of my schools...Colourful, innit?!

Moved house!

Oh, it's been a long time again since I've written on this blog!

For those of you that don't know, I've recently moved house again. Still pretty much within the same area, but this time to a whole house instead of a 1K studio flat! And because it's an older place and further from the station, it's cheaper. Although it needs some money spent on it, and I'm renting so don't want to spend too much, it really is rather nice. It's got parquet wooden flooring throughout and two traditional tatami rooms complete with shoji paper screens at the windows. And heated toilets and a heated bath. All rather nice!　

So anyway, what with moving, cleaning, unpacking, working, going out and Christmas preparations, I've been (and still am) rather busy!

No (or perhaps little) Japanese on the blog for the time being, because I want to write on the blog but have very little spare time right now...
That's it for now cos I've reached my stop!