Here's what my car has looked like every morning for the past 3 days:


Today just about everyone has the day off work because it's a national holiday in Japan... everyone but me that is. My school has some kind of presentation day, so here I am. I think Noheji is one of the only schools in the ken that does this. It was pretty interesting actually. There was a play by the drama club, some guitar playing, the brass band etc. etc. The highlight was this incredible show put on by the "sports classes" featuring some really amazing rope jumping and marching. I know that sounds sarcastic, but it really was cool. I guess you had to be there.


Tonight I have my "bonenkai" or "forget the year party" with my coworkers. I'm dreading it because it means I'm going to be presented with an enormous feast of truly disgusting food that I'm sure I won't even touch. The picture above comes from a blog called The Sneeze, that includes a section called Steve Don't Eat It! Some dude named Steve tries to find the most disgusting foods in the world, eats them and then reports on his findings. Of course natto (Japanese fermented soy beans) is included.


Noheji by the way is completely and totally burried under snow. I'll post photos on my next update so you can see what I'm talking about. Noheji was all over the news because it was so bad. I think in the last three days we must have gotten more snow than we did all of last winter. My car had a good foot or more of fresh snow on it this morning. Thankfully it finally stopped snowing for now.




What I have to look forward to tonight