and belated Hollidays.

I didn't do much for Christmas this year. There was a small Rotary party where we ate cake and such, but that was about it. I didn't do much for New years either, due to bad luck. My host mom is sick. Luckily, I went to another Rotarians house for a family party for New Years today, and I will be going out with him again tommorow, so my host mom can rest easy. Apparently this is the first time she has been sick in some 20 years. Tommorow I'm going to go to the movies to sea "The Day the World Stopped"? (I know the title in Japanese, and thats a direct translation). Any way, Keanue Raeves.

I don't have much else planned for my winter break from school. I go back on the 8th, and its the first time in my life I'm looking forward to going back to school. I'm quite bored here at the house. Im looking forward to tommorow though. I'm also glad that when I return to school, PE dance will be over finally. Since I came to Japan, until winter break, PE has been Dance. We started with folk, moved to ball room, and eventually we were givin the task of geting in groups and making our own dance. My group had 12 girls. You have to put together all your own music, make your costume, and coreograph the dance. It took about a month to do. My groups title was "Running moving garusu" with the running and moving in english, but the "girls" in Japanese. Our theme was being late to school. Out of 17 other groups we were voted 5th best, which was pretty exciting.I also took some exams before winter break. I took the German exam (which I bombed), and an Enlgish exam, which I did very well on. And before you go "of course" I was mostly being tested on matching Japanese vocabulary with Enlish, so It was somewhat challenging.

I feel really bad for anyone that doesn't own a dishwasher, because I have now just come to understand the phenomenon that is "dish pan hands" and no... its not when your hands get all soggy after being in water for so long. It happens with you wash dishes with hot water in winter, in a pourly inselated house. Basicly first your skin gets dry and itchy, and then it cracks, and then you actually get open sores that are like cuts... and it really hurts. I know this because I wash dishes three times a day now. I havn't got cuts yet, but my hands are rather dry and itchy.

Not much else to blog about.

Update when I have somthing better to say

Love you
Miss you
Diana