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Well I haven`t written anything for six days so I thought I should at least put down what has happened, yet it isn`t as interesting as octopus attacks and earthquakes.  Anyway do you really want to know what I had for breakfast or how many showers I had today?

 
I have also read all the books I mentioned earlier apart from the Pride and Prejudice one as I could not be arsed with it.  Sample quote..
 
 ” . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?”
 
Shut up. Get over it!  get over it get over it get over it!  I didn`t like it very much.  I recommend all Sherlock Holmes books though.  I got out Huckleberry Finn today .  Yes.
 
We also went to a place where you pay 100 yen (fifty pence) for fifteen minutes and once you are in there everything is free. They have a large arcade machine area, karaoke, billiards and much more.  I like these.  We stayed a couple of hours.
 
We also went to the Working Holiday Association office.  Which is the association for people who have the visa I have.  Instead of paying the five quid they asked for registration, we took all the free stuff there like magazines about the Osaka region and what`s going on in it - music, events and jobs and got out of there as quickly as possible.  The Americans are starting to annoy me. They write most of the articles here in these magazines. I can`t place why they irritate me yet though.  It is probably an irrational fear of them expressed in hatred. Who knows.  Psychoanalysis available cheaply at…..    The thing is I met an Australian at this place and not an American.  Maybe they write these articles and I am scared/hate them?  Who knows.
 
One thing that is really getting on my nerves is cicada .  I really hate them.  I used to hate maybugs in England but these are larger and scarier.  In the morning in between the dog barking, I here a (very loud)tshhhhhhhhwhooahstshhhhhhhhhhhh sound constantly which wakes me up This is them.  When I know how to put sound recordings here, I will record the bastards.  They will all die by my hands.  Look at the ugly bastards go. I hate them.  We also have moist cockroaches and mosquitos by the thousands as I have already mentioned.  Japan, as well as being the future is insect heaven.
 
So as you can see I haven`t really done that much that is different.  I have watched the rice fields grow, watched rivers dying of thirst in the 35 degree heat, taken on average two cold showers a day, drunk alcoholic tea and been bewildered by Japanese television.  All incredibly different to what I have done in the past but mundane in the best sense of the word.  I like Japan though. At the moment I don`t want to leave.