The Near Future: Survivor, Survivor: Fuji, Survivor: Tour Guide and Survivor: Tsunami and Alcohol Poisoning

1. There’s a lot of stuff happening between now and the end of the year, and it’s got me awful excited!

2. Firstly I’ll be playing my own version of Survivor this Wednesday, getting on a boat with a bunch of locals and having a barbecue on a deserted island followed by watching a fireworks display on the aforementioned boat. We already have a clique going — The Ones Who Speak English. Or, more aptly — The Ones Who Can’t Speak Japanese. Well, The Girlfriend will be there, as well as a Japanese teacher from work, so it’s 50/50. Let’s call it the clique-within-the-clique. Cliquity-clique.

3. Then, this weekend will be the Conquering of Mt Fuji, made less impressive by the fact that grandparents and grandkids alike conquer Fuji-san on a regular basis, and that there will probably be 8000 other people there at the same time. Still, it will be a personal triumph, and I’ll have a whole lot of photos to show for it.

4. The next two months I will be hosting whirlwind visits from two groups of friends and my family, which I look forward to immensely, being that I have the opportunity to take a week off in October and see Japan outside of Hiroshima (Tokyo and Fuji-san notwithstanding). Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and Himeji are all on the cards; should be an awesome trip.

5. On the topic of cards, I’ve finally found enough poker players for a decent game; sensational.

6. November should be a quiet month, giving me time to rejuvenate the bank account; for in December there will be an unbelievably expensive plane ticket bound for Indonesia (Christmas) and Sydney (New Years). A few days on the beach, a few days in Jakarta getting alcohol and food poisoning with a friend, and a week of the Land of Oz with The Girlfriend, a fellow ex-pat here in Hiroshima, and possibly a few others that I’ve met in Japan. Plus all my friends in Sydney. I thought the last two New Years parties were big, but I think this one is gonna top them all. Wickedness all ’round.

7. Also on it’s way are my 400Gb external hard drive that blew up as soon as I got here, which will provide welcome English language entertainment. I just put an order through for some Japanese CDs that has proved entertaining (more on that later — it deserves its own post), and I’m also expecting a brand new double bed to arrive next week — no more falling of the improvised bed for me. (I sleep on a bed made from a five stackable storage boxes laid flat, a door I took off a built-in storage closet and a futon on top. The futon is bigger than the door, so occasionally I get a bit eager with rolling around in bed, and, well, roll off.)

8. Lastly, I’ve had a bit more chance to exercise the camera, so you can expect more photos to come online in the coming days. Plus I am working on captioning all the photos I’ve posted, so new material might be a bit slow for a bit. More, I promise, to come.

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