New Year!

I've just joined Twitter (insert grumbles and rants about stupid internet phenomenons and their followers...)

Admittedly,　it has two uses for me. 

1) I can get links to interesting headlines instead of reading what others read on Facebook.

2) I can use it as a mini blog with snippets of fun stuff that happens frequently out here instead of having to condense weeks or months of information into a blog, long after I've forgotten the most interesting parts :D

3) I can get up-to-date ticket information from bands I like

4) I can delete lots of stuff from my Facebook and make it as simple as it used to be without losing lots of stuff about bands and authors.

Okay, maybe more than two uses for Twitter. (>_<) STILL, I can't think of any other reasons but seeing as I've only just figured out how to link a site and 'tag' a friend in a post, there's still a lot for me to learn about and enjoy, presumably.

Anywho! It's February now and I have decided to recontract!

Yay! I'm staying for another year in Kochi city!

Since my arrival in Japan I have neglected my blog, but had I been a faithful blogger, here's some of the things I might have blogged about, written in a reverse and slightly random order...

Being accepted to perform in the Genki Tosa-ben musical, skiing, experiencing a Japanese New Year's, snowboarding, visiting Osaka, Kyoto and Nara, going to karaoke (many, many times), surfing, purikura, river-floating and attending several friends' house parties, food events and the like.

I also enjoyed Halloween and was one of the winners in the costume contest.

I started kyudo (Japanese archery) last year and now own £300 worth of equipment and uniform.

I was able to watch my first lunar eclipse. The moon was red and beautiful.. I think... It was cloudy most of the time and my memory is a little foggy :p

The rest of the time I am supposed to be studying Japanese and am doing a beginners' course in Kochi.

In all of my time here, I am thankful to say that culture shock hasn't affected me (except maybe at Christmas when I was craving proper a Christmas dinner. No contest when your faced with pickled peppers and boiled rice on December 25th. "What no macaroni and cheese?")

The people that I've met here have ALL been awesome, lovely, helpful and more.

My school, couldn't be nicer, my supervisor couldn't be cuter (かわいいね) and my home couldn't be cosier (^_^)

I am looking forward to getter better and better as a teacher and at speaking Japanese. I've already improved so much. o_0

I'm really enjoying myself and wish you all a happy and successful New Year.

Tasha

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