Friday April 8

 

Hey guys!! So I am right now sitting in Starbucks chilling.

[My 'look' is because I will be going to the gym which = no make-up or fancy hair]

Host kids are either at school or on a spring break camp which, since it is the last day, started at 9 and ends at 12:00. Because its about a 40 minute drive, I decided that it would probably be a smarter idea to just stick around somewhere for a few hours, rather then go all the way home and then leave not too long after.

SO I got my SUPER cool computer and am now sitting using up free internet. 

Speaking of free internet. I love how many places have free internet. The karate place my kids go to has free internet for parents [and au pairs :P] to use while they wait. So on my iphone [which doesn't work as a phone over here] logged into skype, and I had a chat with my family back home. 

I LOVE SKYPE!!

I was sitting down next to other people on their phones, calling Australia - for free. Free. AND I could talk to more then one person at a time. Thankfully the time that the kids are at karate is the perfect [sorta] time to call, because it's just before my family is AUS go to work. :D

YAY

After I finish business over this end of town we are going to go to the YMCA [the gym] and while she's going to be at the kids zone, I am going to try some sort of class. Zumba, kickboxing... maybe even yoga? hahahahahahahaha not yoga. If there aren't any classes on I think I shall just go on the bikes and treadmills in the main room. 

Because I worked on Tuesday [Which is usually my day off] I get tomorrow [Saturday] off!! I was talking with one of my friends over here about it, and she suggested that I go see the Ocean front at Virginia Beach. Rain or Shine, I've been here 4 months already and there is no excuse for me not to have been yet [apparently] so she insists that be our task for tomorrow... but at the moment the weather isn't looking too friendly. We'll see. 

I have TOTALLY been teaching myself Japanese. And rather successfully if I don't say so myself! There was this AMAZING free iPhone app that I found which is the BEST teacher ever!! Totally recommend it to anyone who wants to learn the very basics. It starts with the alphabet. [by the way, this is reading it and writing it... actual words come later]

[For those interested it's called 'Human Japanese Lite' in the itunes store]

Anyway, I could keep writing for ages, but alas you're probably sick of my writing. Leave me a comment and tell me if you think this is a good sized post, or too long or too short etc. 

Anyway, byes. Will fill in soon I am sure. :)