Japan Is Doomed

So here we are, then. I’m writing this from the only cafe I can find Wi-Fi in, trying to get it all written and uploaded before my laptop battery remembers that it harbours a deep hatred for me and gives up. I did manage to get a couple of nice photographs too, but I haven’t really had time to head out on a photography trip yet. I am trying to upload as many as I ca but the internet connection is stupidly slow, so for now I’ll just stick them on Flickr. Sorry!

Not much news, really. Snowboarding is as fun as ever, and with my new board and bindings it’s even better than I remember it to be. Sadly some moron decided it would be awesome to gouge a chunk out of the back of my board in a lift queue, so I’m hoping that will get sorted in the tuneup, otherwise I’ll have to hunt him down and take a chunk out of his face. The weather has been pretty bad - until about 10.30am it’s fine, then every day a horrible cloud floats over the valley, making it impossible to see more than a foot infront of you, which leads to some interesting descents.

I’m back on the 29th, my birthday, at which point I’ll do a huge bumper update which will include the rest of the photos I take here and news about the summer and so forth. Until then, stay cool everyone!

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Update: I am not sure if I will be able to get an internet connection in France. Thus this may be the last post for a few days. Apologies!

I know this isn’t technically anything to do with Japan, but as it’s been a really long time since I went snowboarding, I knew once my family announced they were planning to head off to one of Europe’s premier ski resorts that I should sneak into the back of the car and get myself some quality snow.

I’m leaving tomorrow and will return on March 29th, which is my birthday! There’s nothing I love more than sitting in a car for 11 hours to celebrate my 20th, but that can’t be avoided. The six days immidiatly preceding that will totally make up for it anyway.

I am planning to take my camera and laptop with me, and I will try to make some interesting posts about French culture and so on. Failing that, I’ll just take pretty pictures and waffle on about them. I had an email asking why I never upload pictures to Flickr - I will, I’ve just been stuck at home revising, so there’s nothing to post yet. Yuck.

In other news, as I just said, I’ve been revising as I have yet another exam once I head back to university in two weeks or so - Semester 2 midterms. Although we’ve only done about 5-6 weeks of content it’s still promising to be a difficult exam, andsome of the grammar points we’ve covered like ために, the volitional form & ところ give me a horrible headaches when I think about them, so I think some more hard work is needed there, as usual. Kanji is still a big horrible problem and I hate it and plan to push it out of a window in the future, but at least I can take my textbook with me to France to ruin yet another holiday with stroke orders, Chinese readings and faded lines.

That’s about it for exciting news, then. Blogwise, I’m tuning up the archives to make them easier to use, as a big list of months is pretty useless, and I’ll probably fiddle with the look a bit. That’s about it, though. No more exciting news. Oh, apart from that there’s only 88 more days until I head to Japan! Yahoo!

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