Wednesday 24th January 2007

I love my bike! It is the ants pants of bikes. It has two baskets (one on the front and one on the back) and I can go shopping and buy lots of things and everything still fits in it. I always seem to buy lots of clothes, food and everything else so it is really good that I have lots of space to put things in. It is so weird to see the bikes that people use here in Japan. Everyone has the same bike and they look so dorky because they all have baskets on them. If I took this bike to Australia, I would probably get bashed because it is so geeky looking, but here, it is the coolest thing!



The other day, Ito Sensei (one of the Japanese teachers at the school) made me this really cool welcome tag to put on my desk. The teachers here are so giving. I think it is like that in every school though because it is in the Japanese culture to give presents to people. I think that everyday I have been at this school, I have received some sort of present whether it be a biscuit or some tea or chocolates. They are always giving each other food to eat. I felt a little out of the loop so I went to Jupiters which is a shop that sells all sorts of Western foods and I bought lots of packets of M&M’s to give to them. I don’t think anyone here has ever tried M&M’s before! They were very appreciative of it.

Yesterday, one of the teachers gave me this little flower and it you put it in hot water and make Chinese tea with it. It looked so cool because it expanded in the water and all its leaves spread out inside the cup. I couldn’t resist taking a photo of it! She told me where the Chinese tea shop was so I will go there and buy some more myself! It was really nice!