The rest of my week rolled along fairly smoothly, as I had nothing official to do at school. Hehe. I filled up my time doing Hyogo AJET stuff, which was really good - took a bit of a load off my shoulders! I also got the 'Look Book' (advertisement about Hyogo AJET) printed off and will send it up to the Tokyo Orientation staff at some point. That was a bit of a tough one, but I got there in the end. I wasn't so lucky with getting some Hyogo Times, our Hyogo AJET magazine, printed off for the San-in Beach Party though. After explaining what I wanted over and over again to first a teacher at school and then a printing shop, they still didn't understand what I wanted, and when they finally did it turned out to be hideously expensive. Hahaha. Such is life, I suppose! Thankfully my good friend Dan came up with a great, easy solution so the stress is off there too.

On Wednesday night I finally had enough energy to go back to badminton and have a hit, after three weeks off. Surprisingly, I didn't play too badly, although I had lost my smash technique. There was a really good turnout (including Funamoto-san's baby son, who was very amusing) so we were able to have two courts going the whole time - excellent! I met some new people too, all friends of Ewan's new girlfriend Ai. They're all doctors/dentists/nurses at the central hospital in Ako, where Ai works, and amusingly enough one of them was the really short lady who treated my leg when I fell off my bike a few months back. And although they were quite a bit older than me (30+), they were all really friendly and we had a great time playing together.

On Thursday we had the compulsory annual health teacher check, which was fun. Luckily I'm young so I didn't have to go through the crazy amount of things some of the older teachers had to do (like on the spot blood tests and so on!), although I did have to urinate in a little cup. Nice, haha. Aside from that I only had to hand in my form, do a ridiculously easy eye test (hooray for perfect vision) and talk to an ancient doctor who grinned at how much exercise I did, and that was it. Good times! After that I played badminton with some of the teachers at school, and kicked their butts, haha. At night I went to Minato-ya, which was really great. The full crew turned out, and it was one of the best nights I've had there, chatting away to everyone.

Friday was a really crazy day as I had to supervise my English test in the morning and then get cracking on the marking straight away. I managed to mark two classes by the time 4pm got around, and managed to arrange for Kurioka-sensei and Hashimoto-sensei to mark two provided I marked the remaining two on Monday. I was a little unlucky having such a late exam, as I'd already arranged to go to the San-in Beach Party in Tottori and had to leave school at 4pm. Still, it wasn't just my test, so I think it was only fair that the other teachers marked some too :)