Another Short Post

This will be another short post. My week was very fun, but pretty uneventful. I had many Christmas classes at Shinozaki and will be sending the cards to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on Wednesday. Other ALTs are using my Christmas card activity in class, I'm glad I can make something everyone likes! On Friday we had an assembly for the last two periods of the day. It was a concert that included many styles of music in different instruments from pan flute to piano to taiko. Many of the songs that had words were also done in Japanese Sign Language and the group included many people with mental handicaps. All the music was great and I think the students really enjoyed it!

After school on Friday Megan came over for dinner. We watched some movies before bed and the next morning we went to Hakata for some Christmas shopping. I got a few things from the Pokemon Center and a gift for my secret Santa. She got a lot of stuff, much more than me, and we had a really delicious lunch before heading back to Kokura. In Kokura we went to Aru Aru City, an anime mall behind the train station. There was a pop culture festival going on and we saw a lot of people dressed up in costumes! We played some games at the arcade there and I got a few books. That night I had dinner with Patrick and met up with Canadian Dave and Chris. We went to the Turkish restaurant before heading to a sports bar to watch the Newcastle v. Chelsea game. Patrick and Dave were pretty bummed about Chelsea losing, but Chris and I just enjoyed hanging out. I also played darts for the first time at the bar. I got one bulls-eye, but Chris still beat me.

Sunday was very relaxing. I slept in late and then went over to Marc's apartment. He just got a Wii U and the new Smash Bros. game, so Caol, Megan, and I all went over to play. We spent the day gaming and watching TV. It was a lot of fun! This weekend I'm thinking of going to see a movie on Friday (Gone Girl comes out then and I want to see it). Saturday I have a secret Santa party, and Sunday I will clean everything so it's ready for when Mike gets here the following weekend. Probably another week of not-so-much excitement, but soon I'll have lots of trips and fun things to talk about!