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I can’t believe how fast time flies.  I have heaps of things to tell you about,
even going all the way back to June, and I’m not exactly sure where to
begin.  So, I think I’ll just try to work
my way backwards.

So, this last weekend was Peter’s last weekend in
Japan.  He actually goes back to
Australia today, but I saw him on Sunday. 
We finally had the ‘dinner’ of spaghetti bolognaise that I had been
promising him for two years.

The weekend before that I went to Disneyland with Peter, his
work mate, Adrianne, and one of her friends from the US.  I have to say, I had one of my best days at Disney
with them.  Probably because everyone didn’t
really mind what we were going to do (and kinda left it up to me….).  Because I was shepherding the group I was
nicknamed ‘mum’….  Anyway, despite Disney
being quite busy (all the fast passes were gone by 1pm) we actually managed to
ride all the big rides, had a lovely dinner, and overall we weren’t too
rushed.  Disney at this time of the year
is a lot of fun because it’s all decked out for Halloween, and the Haunted
Mansion is done up using the characters from Nightmare Before Christmas.

The days before that, our school had its culture
festival.  That was in interesting
experience.  It was my first culture
festival, and I wasn’t really sure what to expect.  A lot of the classes put on small plays, and
others had workshop style setups.  My favorites
were one of my first year classes that did a Monkey Magic play, and one of my
third grade classes that did a ‘science’ workshop, where you made slime.  Horrid stuff, but fun.

Actually, all my weekends have been pretty enjoyable since
we came back to work after summer vacation. 
On the 14^th I had a particularly great weekend, but of the
life of my I can’t remember why now.  It
was partly due to the fact that I went to an exhibition of the lay out sketches
for Studio Ghibli films. That what the photos are from.  Their latest film is Ponyo on a Cliff by the
Sea, and all the kids at the school are raving about it.  I must go and see it sometime.

So, next I’ll be telling you about the best summer vacation
ever.  But that will have to wait until
another day.