Another week and a half flies by

In between boarding at the weekends, planning during the day and organising things to send home by night, it's been another busy week:

• Saturday: Christmas pressie and card stuff, Joetsu for bonenkai with Joetsu ALTs and people from play, get horrifically drunk at nomihodai and can;t remember rest of teh night.
• Sunday: Wake up early and head to Kagura for my first snowboarding session of the season, find gondola is broken so cant meet Linds and the northern ALTs on the top half of the mountain, spend afternoon with Keiko on the lower two slopes, finally meet Linds afterwards, have Italian, meet Anna, watch 'Hooligans', sleep
• Monday: Students have special lessons after trip to Tokyo, so my lessons postponed til Wednesday, spend day lesson planning, go climbing for the first time in nine months
• Tuesday: Hand back test papers in lessons, footy with KAwaji FC, wtahc Prem review at Keiko's
• Wednesday: four lessons in a row because of postponed lessons from Monday, plan for Xmas lessons, more work on Christmas pressies
• Thursday: prep and two xmas lessons, christmas party with English Club, climbing again
• Friday: two Christmas lessons, experiment with 'All-Day breakfast' yakisoba (not bad!), Christmas shopping, send first parcel home to England, Nabe Party at Sanae's house, Pooh-san taken hostage by Erik, Pooh-san escapes
• Saturday: Opening day at Cupid Valley, meet Simon, snow not great but can't complain at 1,000 yen all-day ticket, onsen, Christmas shopping in Joetsu
• Sunday: wake late, Christmas Party, Finish Christmas shopping, wrap everything for England
• Monday: Four Christmas lessons, post rest of presents to England, finish other Christmas prep, start on New Years cards
• Tuesday: Dabate lesson, textbook lesson, xmas lesson, shop for card supplies, order snowboard, footy with Kawaji, soon off to Keiko's to watch prem review

And it'll be Christmas in a week, then the end of the year a week after. Then my birthday....