Marching on...

Three weeks today until Miriam arrives! Exciting times.
Not a lot is going on with me just now. It is spring holidays so I am at the office every day. 8 hours is a long time to have no work to do but I seem to be filling it without resorting to keeping up to date with my Japanese course. School starts again the week after next and today all the leaving teachers are coming into the office and bowing a lot. I try to keep up with the bobbing but always manage to miss a few or interpret someone looking down as wrongly and do one extra...
Recent events.
The Vagina Monologues went really well. I think we raised about NZ$900 for the women's shelter which was good and there is a group of Japanese women who are interested in doing it next year which is exciting. I was much more nervous than I thought I would be but I managed to get through my bit okay. I can't get to the photo album on the web from these computers but I'll put some up when I get back to school.
The Chinese CIR who works in my office and lives upstairs left on Tuesday. It was very sad. I am sure I will be just as much of a mess when I leave. She came over for (really odd looking) cake on Sunday and we exchanged email addresses. It will be hard to keep in touch in my crappy Japanese though. I will try! Would be good to have a friend in Beijing.
Tomorrow I am going mushroom picking but otherwise I'm having a quiet time of it. Plenty of time to get my house in order for the family visit (yay!).