Ch-ch-ch-changes!
No Europe pictures posted yet, BUT there are plenty of others! Click the lovely lady below to be taken to my Roving Lens page. If you haven’t already, you can join me for a stroll up Mt. Fuji. You can also check out some sights from Seoul. Or come party with me, vicariously, of course.
As you can see, I FINALLY worked up the courage to go to a Japanese hair salon. Okay, well, I’m not really that brave. Kathy’s the one who booked the appointment. I just tagged along. The stylists were more scared of me than I was of them, though. The woman who was supposed to cut my hair (and who speaks English!) passed me on to the man who owns the salon (and speaks NO English). I drew a picture of what I wanted and hoped for the best. There was only one freak-out moment when the man wanted to give me a fringe (bangs! Never again!). I’ve gone short before, but this is a brand new style for me. I have to say I’m quite fond of it so far. It shocked my students. Many of them thought there was a new teacher at the school. I don’t like attention, so it was a wearying week while all the students cycled through, each exclaiming on my new do. Mostly good reviews, although there were a few who were convinced I’d had some traumatic event which triggered the cut. I wish! But my life is pretty dull.
The seasons have officially changed, in my head at least. We’ve had quite a bit of snow, though at the moment it has mostly melted. Snowboarding will start soon (next weekend in fact). I’ve been dying to snowboard since August. It’s about time! Aeon’s Christmas party is this weekend. I’ll be Santa again. Kathy will be Santa’s wife. And we’re forcing a couple other teachers to be our reindeer. They should be thankful it’s reindeer and not elves with pointy shoes. I love living in a non-religious country. You can enjoy Christmas for what it’s really about – rampant commercialism. There’s no political correctness and certainly no “War on Christmas” crap. Christmas isn’t even a holiday (I get paid on the 25th – and the banks are all open). Everyone works. I would’ve had to, but I’m taking Christmas and a couple days off for an extra long winter vacation this year. No big travel plans, although Kathy and I might go to Kyoto for a few days. It’s time to start saving up for my return to the States. And, well, there’s New Zealand to plan for (the south island), and Kathy has given me an open invitation to stay with her in Perth. Oh yeah, and of course there’s the whole looking for a new job thing. Or grad school. *Buries head in the sand… or rather, the snow.* Damn you, real world!
