My Friday ended up being a surprisingly good day :) Classes went quite smoothly and I also had ESS club after school. This is always fun, and was especially good that week as it meant a break from the exhausting judo club ;) School is holding a cultural festival soon, and ESS club is going to make a big poster in English! We decided to make it about Australian food, so I told the kids I'd bring in some Vegemite and Tim Tams and other nefarious Aussie foods for them to taste and write about ;)

After school, I didn't really have anything planned (surprisingly quiet two weeks, actually!) and was just thinking of heading to badminton. I didn't really feel like it, though, and had half a bottle of wine from Minato-ya's dinner the night before, hehe. So I took a gamble and decided to invite the Minato-ya crew to my house for an impromputu wine and sushi night. I wasn't expecting much because they are usually really busy, but Yoko, Ewan and Kazu all said they could come. So we made it happen and it was very cool.

It was just Yoko and I to begin with, and we ended up talking about music. When Ewan dropped in, he joined in and we jumped onto Youtube to listen to some of his new favourite artists. He has really broad tastes and is always into something interesting. New Zealand reggae, at the moment, it seems. This gradually digressed into crazy videos like Hard Gay Ramen, The World of Golden Eggs and Takeshi's Castle. These were accompanied by some great Australian wines (2003 McWilliams Chardonnay, 2006 Apple Flats Merlot and another red that I can't remember) and plenty of food.

Eventually Ewan had to shoot off to pack for his trip to Australia the next day and Yoko had to head home as she was getting up early the next day, so Kazu and I decided to go check out Sakoshi beach for a while. I guess some part of me is still a kid because I started jumping and climbing around on the rocks there, as I always do, haha. Unfortunately this time, it cost me my mobile phone. I was using the light to see where to step, and lost my balance. I caught it easily, but in doing so had to swing my hand up and lost my grip on my phone, which flew in a perfect curve straight into the shallow ocean near the bottom of the rocks. Needless to say, it didn't work any more, haha. Oh well.

Anyway, aside from the phone, it was a great night. We all agreed we should do more little impromptu things like this, so hopefully in future we will! :)