Nothing new

It's mid-winter and nothing too exciting has been going on recently. I don't have much to say, so I'm kinda struggling with this blogging thing right now. Bear with me...

School's pretty boring lately. I've been doing loads of speaking tests (shoot me) and the 3rd years are all going bonkers since they are graduating in less than a month...
I'm trying not to let the weather get me down too much. Definitely looking forward to Osaka next week then China in three weeks after that. It's gonna be awesome.

Um, this weekend was pretty decent. Friday night the Tsubame-Sanjo area ALTs met up for a big booze-fest celebration for Kate and Nuria's birthdays. Happy birthday, girls! It was the usual dinner and drinks followed by karaoke. Dinner was quite entertaining but we all kind of tuckered out during karaoke so after a couple hours we all retired and were back at Aaron's by like 1:30.

Saturday was my recovery/relaxation day so I could be fresh and pumped for boarding on Sunday. I hung around my apartment watching Olympic stuff on TV and was in bed by 9:30.

Sunday morning I woke up at 6:45 to pick up Phil and Grace and we headed down to Muikamachi Minami ski-jo. It's a pretty small place but Phil and Grace are just starting and Minami has a pretty easy beginners run. It's actually where I got my first semi-decent runs in last season, so yeah a bit of nostalgia and all that... (Kristen, this is the same place we went to in Niigata with your brother. And you fell in the lunch room and your boot went through the wall, remember? The hole is still there.) It was a pretty nice day, Grace and Phil made big improvements too! We saw bits of sunshine here and there and there was fresh snow falling almost the entire day. It was the best snow I've boarded on all season AND I finally started fixing my S-curve. Stoked! I'm totally broke this week, but Aaron and I are gonna try to save our yen to hit the slopes next weekend too.

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Lately I've been thinking a lot about next year. I'm kinda freaking out about money but mostly, I'm just really looking forward to the move to Portland. I just found out that SJ and I might be able to sub-let my aunt's house for the first 9 months at a really great price. This actually takes a load of stress off me since I won't need to worry about first/last month's rent and security deposits and furnishings and all the other money you have to put down when getting a place. It just seems like a great opportunity and I'm pretty excited about it all. The next 5 months are gonna fly by, so I'm gonna work on enjoying them (while also saving cash for next year).

Ok, enough incoherent blabbing... until next week.