Like a kid at Christmas

Yesterday afternoon I found my missing language course book. Typical eh? I also found the answer sheet I was supposed to send in my coat pocket. The deadline is today. Good one Martin. I sent the answer sheet today anyway. The test will still be marked if it's late, though it won't count to my final grade, so it'll be useful to know how well I would have done.

This afternoon I hung out with Debs. We were trying to find a quite bit of snow so we could dress up in our snowboarding gear, stand on our boards and make 'swoosh' sounds. We'd already been doing plenty of this on our own in our apartments and we both felt it was time to actually go outside in the snow. Thing is, we couldn't find anywhere quiet enough and we felt a little embarassed doing it in the middle of the street. So we went to the gym; Debs to the training room, me to the climbing wall.

In the evening, Debs, Nate, Kate Red, Jaime (Sally's boyfriend) and I went out for drinks round Tokamachi. We started in Daikichi, the yakitori place, then we moved to a restaurant down the High Street which also turned out ot be a yakitori place. Keiko came out to meet us there too. Eventually we moved on to Lupin were we drunk shochu and sours and met up with Erik.

This morning I've been getting things ready for my first snowboarding session. The plan is to spend teh weekend in Matsudai with Debs, Annie and Neil. There's a quiet ski slope near Annie's so we'll go there today, stay at Annie's on Saturday and snowboard again on Sunday. I've also got to decide if I want to go up to Niigata for the Footballer's dinner. The owner of Immigrants promised a free nomihodai for the squad if we won the tournament. There were some restrictions, such as it had to be a Friday or a Sunday. The problem for me is how to get back from the nomihodai. If I drive up, I can't drink. If I get the bus or the train up, will I be able to get back on Sunday night ready for school on Monday? I'm too excited about snowboarding at the moment so I'll decide later.