You know how they say bad things come in threes, well, we definitely got our fill of that.

I’m too tired to make any sort of long drawn out entry about everything, but she started off sick (jetlagged) for our trip to Ise. Despite being sick, she was a trooper and really stuck out the trip, which aside from her feeling like poo for the latter portion, was a lot of fun.

We went with three of my adult lady students, who are just so awesome. They took us to the Ise shrine, and I got yelled at for taking a photo. I must have made the god there mad. I asked Toshi if I could, and she said it was fine. Two seconds later, the guard is yelling at me. “NO PHOTO”. Ah well, maybe that ticked them off and explains what happened for the rest of the week.

The day after Ise was Kyoto, where we went and got all Maiko’ed out (as in, dressed up as apprentice Geisha). We went with my friend Eri and her sister Miho, who are both just so sweet. So that was really fun, and the photo shook was pretty awesome. I’ll upload some photos into the photo galleries here on the site later.  We went to the Kiyomizudera, Kinakakuji and the Bamboo Tunnel — all great places to visit in Kyoto. Again, photos will come later.

We made a brief interlude back in Nagoya, after Kyoto while we were waiting for the nightbus to Tokyo. We got offered apples in a plastic bag by some completely random guy. It felt like Snow White.

Really though, who goes around offering random strangers outside of a station apples from a plastic bag? O_O

Long story short for Tokyo — I got extremely sick. As in, hallucinating and throwing up for a few days sick. It was weird because I knew what I was saying and thinking wasn’t making sense, but I couldn’t make it stop. I guess I told everyone there was pain in my stomach that was like iPhones, and they were flipping (or turning, or something). Kim, being as sweet as he can be, was so awesome. And braintwin played nurse to me. T_T I felt so bad putting everyone out like that, and I really wish I didn’t get so sick. We were supposed to take the bus back to Nagoya, but ended up taking the Shinkansen, with Kim in tow.

We did end up catching a live (and omg SIN from ViViD is hot in real life), and bought a couple things for S-T, so that’s a bonus. I’m really glad that we got to see lynch. too. They are always good live; never disappoint. アンド (AND) was surprisingly good live as well, very… JOKEResque. If I had to compare, that is. That’s the easiest way to describe them. It felt really good to go to a live, so I’m looking forward to checking out a few more.

Anyways, back in Nagoya we realized that braintwin had lost her glasses. T_T Kim went back to Tokyo to see if they were at his place, but no dice. Turns out, we lost them on the bus. We did get them back, so that’s all good. We spent yesterday wandering around Oosu for a bit, but I was just so easily exhausted because I hadn’t eaten any solid food except a piece of toast for like, three days.

So, overall it was really nice to get a chance to hang out! I just feel awful that I ruined it all by getting so sick. I mean it’s not like I intentionally wanted to (who would want that), but yeah. At least we got to see some of the sights, go to a live, and hang out and talk.

I feel like there are more things to say, but I’m done for now. As they come back to me, I shall update.

I’m really glad to finally have a phone, and the more I use it, the more I think that it was a good choice to go with be iPhone. All o need now is to get a pink cover for it. They didn’t have any pink in stock when I bought it, so I got blue. It’s a nice colour, but it’s not pink.

A week tomorrow is my birthday.
It’s kind of strange. Sometimes I feel like, wow, I’m almost 24 and I’ve accomplished virtually nothing. Other times I feel like I’m doing okay. Admittedly, I always thought my life would be a bit different than it is when I reached around this age. I’m not saying I’m. Of happy, I just thought things would be different.

Every time I go to the convenience store near work, if I check out with this one girl she always talks to me. She’s really nice, and even if it’s nothing huge, it’s nice when someone makes an extra effort like that.

On my birthday, after work, we’re all going to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. I think it’s nice that the school does that for everyone’s birthday, and since I really like everyone I work with, I’m excited.

My parents sent me a birthday present which came already. Two news shirts and some chocolate, along with a keychain and photos of Watson, my grandparents, my cousin and her new baby Zion, and the house. Especially the garden. My mum wrote comments on the back of them all, some of which were hilarious.

Yes… So none of this is terribly exciting. Looking forward to the June vacation because my wonderful brain twin is coming to visit.

I’ll have Internet again in just over a week so I’ll be able go update more and get back into the swing of S-T and such.

On a closing note, this took far too long to type out because I suck at typing on my phone.

Thank god for auto-correct.

Oddly enough, not that much is new. I’m moved into my new place, and my new job is going pretty well. I’m really enjoying it, and I really like the family that I work for, so it’s pretty hard to complain.

The kids are adorable.

No internet at my place yet, so it’s just a waiting game until I can get it. I don’t mind that much, because I can come into the school on my days off to use the internet, which is a great help.

Other than that, things are well.