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Last night I went to a cheap Chinese/Italian all you can eat fusion restaurant where for an extra fiver you could drink as much as you wanted. Mixing Chinese with Italian food isn`t the first combination that would come to mind if I were a restaurant owner but it was okay. I spotted what I thought was sweed stir fried green pepper and egg and piled my plate with it but it turned out to be the much less sweet dish known as bitter melon and egg. It was nice but I didn`t want a whole plate of bitter melon as you can imagine. It was to celebrate Reiko`s last day at her hated travel agency job.

The Christmas decorations on the houses are becoming more and more predominant with whole estates draping the garish red white, yellow and green lights, decorations, santas and snowmen over their houses. The worst I have seen so far is a brightly lit up see-sawing santa arranged amongst enough lights to land a 747. I want to burn it down. I`m in Japan not America.

The school I taught at yesterday was one of the best ever. We played Simon says for directions Turn Left/Right /Forwards which is cunning enough for me as I am in fact Simon. “Simon says Jump. Jump. Simon says Jump. Simon says Jump. Jump.” It was a lot of fun but very tiring. Then there is a blindfold game where they have to direct the blindfolded guy around the room to shake hands with other people. They were literally screaming my name as I left the place. One kid kept on saying, “See you tomorrow” which scared me as it was a Friday.