Last weekend was special for me. I pent really good time with my good friends. I am glad to be with you guys on my special day.

 

Weekend started with jogging. Jon and I met up at Kouhouseki and went around Himeji castle as usual. This was the last time, but we didn't know at that time. We enjoyed jogging and seeing beautiful night scenery. In front of the castle gate Jon met his colleague. We said goodby then but met at Sousha again. After jogging we went to Tiger to meet Shell and Reza and talked. It was nice Friday night.

 

At Tiger Jon decided to go to Himeji aquarium to see feeding penguins in Saturday morning. But I woke up late. Sorry!!! We had a picnic for lunch. Shell got a cute praying mantis. He likes her. haha After that I went home to dress up for my birthday party.

 

The party was great! Jo organised and booked Izakaya which has a karaoke room. We had the party with music! The first birthday song was Jon's "White Christmas". It was a funny and romantic song. haha I also enjoyed Y.M.C.A. Jo, Shell and I danced and got a funny picture. The end of the party was Jon's cake. It was a rum and chocolate cake, and some Totoro charactors, Nekobus which has "meg" direction, totoro, frog and Mei-chan was on the top of the cake. SOOO CUTE!! I'm so lucky peoson that I could spend my birthday with many good friends and a big birthday cake. At tiger all people sang "Happy birthday' for me. I'm so happy. I won't forget that night.

 

My birthday morning started with "Happy birthday" from Shell and Jon at Shell's place. The party still continued. In this morning I had a big job to put on Yukata by my self. Shell got a new Yukata in last month, but she couldn't put on it by her self, so she waited kyoko was coming. Then we four went to Himeji station to meet Jo, Mariko and Makoto. We went to Kyoto and meet Miho. We walked through the street. It was Gion festival, so many people and Yatai was on the street. I like wearing Yukata in Kyoto especially on a festival. It's fun! For dinner we went to Izakaya which has Yuka biside Kamo river. It had stopped raining, so it was nice temperature. We enjoyed eating and drinking.

 

I stayed over at Shell's place again. Monday was a national holiday. Shell, Jon and I went to katudon restrant to have lunch and then enjoyed taking purikura. It was a rainny day, but I had a good time. In this week I had many "Happy birthday" mails from my friends. Thank you guys again!!

Last weekend I spent almost whole time with Shell and Jon.....again.!! I moved to Shell's place on weekend. Now my 2nd house is there. hehe

 

Saturday morning Shell and I was sooo sleepy and hungry on our way to Himeji station from Shell's place. We were going to Yamasaki to meet Jon, so we got up at 6:30 even though we went out with Jo, Kyoko and Kazumi and stayed up late last night. (At that time I ate huge curry spagehtti with Jo thogh.) And it was hot!! We complained, but on the way to Yamasaki in the train it was good. We had breakfast and were soaking nice country side view. We met Jon at Yamasaki bus terminal and then went mini hiking to Saijou-zan (not Mogamiyama). We could see whole Yamasaki town there. We had really good time. We walked around the town, had lunch at Laputa and took a rest in front of the big picture of Himeji castl. To my surprise, he is famous in Yamasaki. All high school students (yamakousei) know him. He met them on the road, at Jusco, in the bus.....almost everywhere!! It's a small town. At his place now all his stuff was on sale. (but it was free.) We got many many things and brought them to Himeji.

 

The night was still not over. After we came back to Himeji, we met up with Reza and went to mitsubishi apartment to join the farewell party. There were many people, so it was hot!! Seriously we needed to take a shower. After the party we went to Jon(H)'s place and stayed over there.

 

Sunday morning when I woke up, Shell already got up and was reading a book. We were hungry again. We waited every guys woke up and went to the mall to have breakfast. It was so close. At the mall Shell finally understood why her students asked about the name of different type of beetles. It was because of the game called Mushi-king!! Children fights with the beetle's card. I can't understand why it is so popular.

 

Sunday was a basketball day. Last time we decided that we should not have a party before b-day. But we did again. In the gym it was so HOT!! I couldn't keep running, so I took a long rest after I played for one hour. I couldn't go back to the corrt. But the game continued the end of the time. It was amazing. It seemed like never ending game. And some people kept playing from the begining to the end. They were so tough!!