I noticed I haven’t really been telling everyone what I’m going to be doing recently. So I thought I’d fill in everything I have planned so far for the next two months. Obviously this is bound to change as “Mike” and “everything went according to plan!” are rarely, if ever, found in the same sentance. Anyway…

Junten Easter Party
First there was the school festival, followed quickly by the Halloween Party, then the Christmas party. Now we’re teaching a whole new set of students, we’re going to ploy them into studying English at university with chocolate eggs and silly, silly games. I will be bringing my old camera to this event, as I don’t really want huge, high definition shots of students crawling around on the floor pushing eggs with their noses.

Soccer
As long as everything goes to plan, this Saturday I will be joining my friend Sven’s soccer club, and playing every Saturday from 6pm. I know I can play soccer in England and I should only try traditional Japanese sports like Shorinji or whatever, but the big difference here is that I am quite good at soccer because I have twice the range on my strike as most of the other players! Thank you gene pool!

Trip To Nagoya
My good friend Mari from the final Kyoto update lives in a town near Nagoya, and has invited me down there for a crazy weekend of sightseeing and perhaps also sitting on a train for a very long time. Ignoring people on a train is without a doubt one of my favourite hobbies so I am very excited about this one!

Thai Students / Disneyland!
I’ve never been to Disneyland. I don’t particularly like standing in a queue that weaves it’s way around various vomit landmines in order to be assaulted by a man in a Goofy costume, under the premise of “having fun”. But soon some students from Thailand will be visiting Japan, and it has fallen upon Matt and I to bear the load that is going to Disneyland for free and eating lots of candyfloss. (I added in the last stipulation myself – nobody can say I don’t pull my weight now!)

So I hope that will make up for the last week’s lack of updates and photography. People have asked what happened to the gallery – it’s still there but I really only want to give access to my family for now – I need to sort it out and I don’t have the time. Everyone else can check out my Flickr, which I will update after I head back to the park I passed on the walk the other day and take pretty pictures.

Possibly Related Content:

1. Easter Madness
2. Nagoya Part 1
3. Nagoya Part 2
4. Tokyo Disneyland
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