Oh the difficulties of writing a blog and living in Japan!

So little time! I’m trying my best, but all the time I seem to keep doing more and more stuff in Japan - so I’ll try and go a little faster in an attempt to get to the present day in my blog! Firstly, we had the New Yamgata JET Orientation, which was so great to meet all the new JETs and there are some great people - and after being away from native English speaking for a fair while, it was so nice to talk at a normal speed and have a bit of fun and a laugh. We certainly did - especially on the second day, when we went to Mt. Zao - a famous Ski Resort are in Yamagata. We went for a dip in the Zao Onsen, with beautiful outdoor surroundings and a very sulphuric hot natural water (my second onsen!), then after that we had a big Enkai with some great food, some great drink and some brilliant karaoke. Good times were definately had by all I do believe!After that, on the next weekend, a fairly calm and relaxed time was had. I met up with Koji and Yutaka, the two guys I met at the Obon festival and we played football (I know, I know, I’m no Wayne Rooney but its the taking part that counts) and I met a bunch of other young Japanese people who were all really nice. It was great fun - after that we ate ‘Kaginori’ - a Japanese favourite - basically crushed ice with some flavoured syrup over it - its quite a tasty and refreshing sweet to have when its so so so hot!