New Years

Captain's log,

A lot has happened in the past few days.

One of the girls from Christmas Eve is now my girlfriend, if you want the full story, ask me on facebook or skype or something.

On the 26th or 27th, she and I went to Osaka Castle, which was a fun little date. The castle was cool, it was prettier than Himeji, but not as big.

On the 28th I went to Kyoto to hang out with my Nihongo partner's family, we made mochi, takoyaki, and some other foods that were pretty good, but Moe's dad started feeding me alcohol at 10:30 in the morning. This continued until 5:00, when I left. I met up with Mayo (my lady) and her friends at Ikeda station, waited a while on Drew and Aaron, they didn't show, so we ate without them. Afterwards, Mayo and I went to Nishinomiya to hang out with Aaron, we drank a bit and spent the night at Bertrand's place.

The next day, I went to meet some friends from my tennis circle for this fancy dinner party. It was a several course meal, and was absolutely delicious.

New Years went waaaaay better than I thought it would. Some kids wanted to go to a club, but because I'm kinda burned out on clubs, and I have a girlfriend now, I was a tad hesitant. Thankfully, however, a lot more people than I thought were coming came, including my girlfriend. So we all went and had a blast. The club did the countdown about 2 minutes late, but it was still fun nonetheless.

Yesterday and today has involved my extended host-family staying over, and lots of food. Tonight I have a date with Mayo for Nepalese food. I'm pretty stoked.

This year so far looks promising. My resolutions are to keep up with working out, be able to have a full conversation in Japanese, and actually get some music recorded. We'll see how that goes.