Oz to Oya

April was an eventful month too.   My life in Japan is coming to an end but the adventures continue.  The first weekend of April, I went to a cherry blossom viewing party (hanami) in the Himeji castle grounds.  The weather was miserable and drizzling, but it was still fun!   The cherry blossoms were beautiful and the sake was plentiful.  (100 yen refills!  haha).   My friends were there, including Adrian who had driven down from Gifu!

The hanami finished pretty early because of the bad weather.   But we continued to party.  We went to a nearby karaoke place and sang with everyone for a few hours.   Adrian and I then left to take the train to Ako.  A fellow Perthite, Daniel Carter had moved house and we were going to his housewarming party.   We turned up in fine form and had a blast.  I believe twister and dance lessons were involved at some point. hahaha…. J

Friday the 10^th was Eva’s birthday so I called to wish her a happy birthday only to find that she was in the hospital!! poor kid! The following weekend was a small party at Stix!   and the next weekend, I helped Colin to move house.  It was a lot of fun hanging out with him and seeing the beginning of his new life together with Yuka.  I’m a little jealous.   I don’t really remember what I did the weekend after that!  …. hmm.. I don’t  think anything important happened?   Oh!!  a lot of salsa practice because we have a performance next month!!  That’s what I did!

Luke came to visit on Sunday night and then on Tuesday it was Colin’s birthday!  We had a joint birthday party for Colin, PK and Chie at Tanigaki followed by karaoke.  Wednesday was a public holiday so we slept in and then went to Takeno beach for a small picnic  after that, we swung by Kinosaki so Luke could say good bye to the Ota family and then we made our way to Stix again for dinner. J

And other big news from this last week.   I’ve been selected for the Taiwanese scholarship!!!  I’m just waiting to hear back from the universities that I applied to now! Fingers crossed! Once I hear from them, I need to send my university acceptance details to the Taiwan consul in Australia along with bank details in Taiwan, etc and they will commence scholarship payments!  Hurrah!

And now for the April weigh in (kgs):

·         1st   86.7

·         7^th   86.7

·         9^th  86.7

·         10^th 87.0

·         13^th  86.9

·         15^th 86.5

·         17^th  86.5

·         20^th  86.7

·         21^st  86.2

·         22^nd  85.6

·         23^rd  85.6

·         24^th  86.1

·         27^th  85.9

·         28^th  85.8

·         30^th  86.3

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