March update. 2009
Well… March was a pretty intense month. On the first weekend, I had a Lodge party in Yoka that was brilliant. We rented a lodge in Yoka for the night and invited as many people as we could think of… the result was an epic party! Then the next day, (night!) I took the night bus with Jim and his girlfriend to Tokyo. I met up with Maya and hung out with her for the day and that evening, I met up with Jim again, and we went to the Outback steak house!! Luke, Yoshie, Erika and her husband and Hiro came as well. We ate and drank a lot and caught up. It was a wonderful evening. The next day, Jim and I went to our conference in Yokohama. We had some time before we started the conference, so we went on the rollercoaster that was next to the conference centre!! It was fun but short. 
Unfortunately, because of the conference, I missed my student’s graduation ceremony. I’m really sad about that. I returned on the Thursday and as soon as I got back, I went to elementary school to teach!! I was exhausted.
Two weeks later was a long weekend. I stayed in Tajima, and had a great time hanging out with my friends! And last but not least… the final weekend of March. I went to Mie-ken to visit a Ninja museum.
A few months earlier, PK suggested a ninja trip. Everyone wanted to go and so PK and I organised the trip. We hired a van from Wataki and on Saturday morning, we all drove down to the ninja village. We rented ninja costumes for the day and had a ball. JJ had been a ninja since the morning. He’d converted his t-shirt into a black ninja mask and was jumping and diving around all morning. At one rest stop, he was continuing his antics and a police car appeared and drove passed us VERY slowly …… something about a guy acting suspicious and having his face covered perhaps?! hahaha….
The museum was an interesting place and we all learned a lot about ninjas. But I think the most fun was throwing shiriken (ninja stars). I spent a bit of money on that myself… hahaha…. We also had a lot of fun pretending to be ninjas and stalking the other people in the museum…. and of course having epic battles with each other and the small children dressed as ninjas… We certainly made their day. Lots of photos of us scaling the castle walls, etc.
And now for the weigh in. This month was a bit hectic so I only weighed myself on a few days each week.
· 3rd 86.9
· 4th 86.4
· 5th 86.5
· 17th 86.8
· 23rd 87.8 (After the long weekend of eating and drinking!! haha)
· 26th 86.9
· 31st 87.0