Charlene showing off her fabulous new hairstyle!

My beautiful, wacky, wonderful house-mate of the past 18 months is leaving Japan tomorrow, returning to Manitoba in central Canada where there is still snow 2 metres high. It doesn't seem real. It's too sad to think about too much. So I won't. A lot of tears and laughter bonds us together, I'm sure we'll hang out again sometime, somewhere, in the not too distant future..... The lovely Andrew left for Seattle today, too. Too many good byes in this expatriate life.

But on the other hand, there are also lots of hello's. My new (old) flatmate (we used to live together with Timbo in Komaba Todaimae), Fuku-chan, has settled in to her room and will soon make a starring appearance here on the blog. We've had a lot of fun already - she likes a bit of a drink and a party, and met some of my closest friends on saturday night at Tylers birthday party. It'll be great for my Japanese to live with a Japanese person again. Every conversation includes some language explanation. It's great - we both really want to improve our respective language skills.

For my Australian family and friends: I've decided to make a trip back to Oz for about 5 weeks in far-away December/January, to celebrate my 40th B-day with all the old crew (family and friends) at my brothers house in Port Douglas, and then travel around the east coast catching up with everyone and maybe pop in to Woodford for the festival... Anyways, if you wanna start planning for a trip to Port D. around the first/second week of December I'd be really excited!

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