Weak/weekend

Hello all.
Sorry to not write for so long, but I have a brilliant excuse.

Last week I was sick. Properly and dramatically sick. I got a nasty infection that went to my kidneys and I had a fever and I kept vomiting up the anti-biotics so I had three visits to the doctor. Number one discovery... the time when you are whimpering because the pain is bad and fever is so high everything is bright and confusing is not the best time to finally watch Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas... it was the first thing I found to put in the video player and that took so much effort I couldn't get up to change it. Had the craziest dreams when medicine finally made me sleep. Fear and Loathing made more coherent sense than either Gigli or Totally Blonde though I don't think this is health related. The doctor ordered me two days off and thus I worked only one day last week because Monday and Friday were both public holidays.

On Friday I was up and about and feeling much better and my very first ever visitor arrived on Oki! Carole from Canada was a most excellent first visitor. We bummed around on Friday and then went to a singing festival at one of my schools (endless enquiries about my health).

Saturday we purchased peanut butter (cheaper here than on the mainland) and went to the school sports festival for the dances... they were one of the strangest things I've ever seen. The students were divided into two big groups and had choreographed their own dances to 80's music. All the boys were in little skirts and glitter, the was a lot of body paint and one child was randomly dressed as a horse. I kept waiting for the horse to do something cool but he just followed the same choreography as the other chorus dancers. I felt cheated.

We then embarked on a whirlwind sightseeing tour of Oki with Rika as our guide and ended up having afternoon tea with an ex-English teacher Akiko who has two adorable kids and a four month old baby. They were so much fun we ended up going out for dinner with them and then stole Akiko from her young family for a night in a karaoke box. Boy can she sing! We were as enthusiastic as ever but she put us to shame. I even found Crowded House and Bic Runga (someone else found doh-a-deer...)

Yesterday we visited beautiful Nishinoshima one of the wee islands near me and wandered around the tallest cliffs in Japan before watching a primary school sumo tournament. All very action packed and exciting.

I'm starting my adult English course soon and hopefully will begin playing badminton this week... slowly working my way in to island life!
Hope you are all well and happy.

I'll put up some photos next week. Email me!
donna

I have managed to get into yahoo again so I'll start email people back. Yay you say.