8th Nov 2006

Was stopped by a police man on my way to the metro platform this morning…asking me something I couldn't understand!!! Apparently this isn't normal…well that was what I was told by the Japanese…still have no idea what the police man wanted…anyway I showed him my college ID, he said to me 'shimu san?' I went 'hai' and he said (well pointed) that I could continue… I have no idea why he stopped me…odd…anyway the speaker system that I bought is arriving today…so that's exciting…went into my early (830) lecture then Japanese class then went home to wait for the delivery…and waited, and waited. It was 1630 and I was getting fidgety…so went downstairs to check that it hadn't already been dropped off in one of the parcel boxes…Nope. Nothing there but junk mail…so just as I'm about to leave to flat to go to climbing. The door bell rings! Hurrah! I now have I hifi system…I couldn't possibly leave the box with all the speakers trapped inside so I open the box and liberate the contents…and set about setting the stuff up. I guess I could have left so that I would have gotten to the gym at 6pm…but I'm kinda aching so I don't think my climbing will be all that good today anyway…So I hurriedly assemble the stuff…plug things in…and make an effort to guess which plugs go where. Progress is slightly impeded by everything being in Japanese which is a challenge…but all good fun!

Dinner after climbing was good, food tasted a bit too salty which was weird but we had some interesting conversations about panda porn and whether we could apply the same idea to tuna so that we still have more tuna to eat…could be interesting…

anyway i can't write anymore, my painkillers seem to be wearing off...better have another sleep...apologies for the sporadic posting!