Hachi mushi invasion

I forgot to say in my last post that in addition to getting a room I also got a free wasps nest, which had been built just outside my room. Fortunatly there wasn't much of a chance of them been able to get in because of the insect netting outside of the room. To be honest it was pretty cool and the wasps were only paper wasps so they are not very agressive, but today we got the bug spray and with pretty much 1 shot they were all dead and the baby larve were falling out of there nest. So no-one got hurt (except the wasps). I have a few pictures but I have to find a way to post them with this new computer (which is a mac, unfortunatly) but oh well.

Im free

Well I finally left Nogata on the 16th of July. I got all my things packed and got a lifft from Yukari's mum to my new apartment. Everything went perfect. It didnt take too long to unpack most of my things because alot of the stuff I could leave in the boxes for when I come home.

The day after I moved (Sunday) I went for a walk into tenjin which is the main area and it is quite far away. i think it took around 1 hour 30 to get there by walking, but it was a nice day, abit too hot and humid, but thats usual. I passed alot of nice places that I kept in mind to go and it seems that there are about a million and one things to do here, so hopefully I can do as much as possible before I come back to England. To be honest I wish I could stay here a few more months, but unfortunatly I can't work so I would be living off nothing. Although I am going to see what I can do to stay here a few more days, maybe an extra week because I want to stay here as long as possible (mainly because of Yukari).

Yesterday I spent the whole day at her house with her family, which was great because they are so nice. I guess I was abit nervous most of the time, but I guess they were too, except her sister, who is very outgoing.

At the moment it is about 11.30am and I plan to go to one of the parks to do some reading and writing and drawing for the day and maybe have abit off a walk to a museum or something. The only problem i'm having here is the weather because it is too hot and especially at night, because I don't have an electric fan or air conditioning, so i'm left to roast. But Yukari said I can have one of hers, unfortunatly I forgot to pick it up last night.

So as far as moving and living on my own, everything is going great and I am looking forward to the rest of my time here, short though it may be.

Birthday message

Well today is my birthday and since the last post, I have been to camp with the nursery. It was a pretty fun time, but very tiring and I`ll put the pictures on when I have more time. I`ll talk about it abit more later, but for now I have to go have my dinner at Etsuko`s who has made my tea. I was meant to go and see Yukari in Fukuoka, but she missed the plance from America to Japan, meaning that she will get here tonight at about 8pm, which is abit late.

Just to say, the main feature of the camp trip for me was when I caught a snake with my bare hands. I even held it by its head while I was holding it, so that it wouldn`t bite me (although it nearly did). I`ve never touched a wild snake before, so it was so cool.

Anyways gotta go. Thankyou to everyone who sent me a card and cash and chocolate and also thankyou to Christine an family for the birthday message on my website. (Note to everyone else) you can post things you know, it ain`t too hard :P

Oh my God　i`m 20!! im so old

OH MY GOD!!!

I can`t believe it, I cant bloody believe it!! ok I just finish posting about the stupid computer deleting my photo`s and then I decided to add some new songs to my ipod. So I load up the software and I find that all my songs are gone. GONE! thats over 1000 songs I had on this ipod, over 1000!!!! all and the cd`s for them are in England. Some I even had to rent to put on and now they are all gone. I swear to god I am so close to destroying this computer, it should be grateful that it isn`t mine. So now I had 2 albums on my ipod, the ones that I was going to add in the first place.

I feel like been sick right now. Those songs were everything to me, I listened to them everyday, and now they are all gone (they are still on my laptop in England, but thats like 2 months away) I am not joking or anything but this has really pissed me off. Now I have 2 albums to listen to at night and probably for the rest of my time here. I am so angry right now, I can`t even think of what to say. I`m just going to go now.

Pictures.... all gone....

The previous post of when I went to the kangaroo park is all that remains of my pictures from there, because I put them onto the computer, posted some onto here and then deleted them from my camera as I was running out of space. Today i decided to put some more on, but when I checked my folder practically everything had gone. This happended once before, but I found out that they had been moved because of low file space (after finding a note on the computer, which I found very rude, because they waited ages to put it there and they should have told me) but luckly all was ok. But this time it seems that they haven`t been moved and they have just been deleted along with alot of other things. Thankfully my parents have disks with my photos on (from previous) and I have my own disk, but all those that were recently put on will never been seen again. So thankyou "woman who uses computer" I really appreciate it, I`ll be sure to return the favour some time ;)

There were also horses at the park, which we could feed (with a shovel for some reason). There was also a horse that you could ride, but Emiko didn`t get very far on it.

Today I went on a trip with the Yamamoto family. We went to the beach (but it wasn`t exactly the best weather for swimming) and then we went for a great meal and then to the kangaroo park, which wa cool because I got to pet a kangaroo. I have seen kangaroos before but never petted one. I was going to ask the kangaroos if they wanted a boxing match and her is the picture after I won.