Yesterday (Sunday) was a day for catching up with friends.
Firstly Yasu and I went into Perth city to meet a friend that I studied Japanese with in 1999. We mainly use Facebook to keep in contact but because my friend is also friends with Yasu he wanted to meet up in person.
We had a nice time and chatted about quite a few interesting subjects like theology and Japanese taxes.
Afterwards we went to Jo’s boy’s birthday party at The Beach House Fun Centre in Osbourne Park. It was his 4th birthday. I had also organise to catch up with a Japanese friend and her daughter at the fun centre, who we hadn’t seen for a year due to some miscommunication on my part.
It was really good to see her and we spent the next 3 hours gabbing while Yasu took off to play with her 9 year old daughter. haha. He’s such a big kid!! I guess because she’s Japanese he enjoys talking to her in Japanese rather than English.
We had a great time chatting and in that time Jo came over and we started talking about dancing which Yuka also seems interested in, so we made a time in the school holidays to go out salsa dancing at one of the clubs that have free lessons in the city. As school holidays are in easter it won’t be too far away.
At about 4:30 pm the party ended and Jo asked me if I wanted to meet them in Hillary’s boat harbour for fish n’ chips with them and her parents and I agreed. Yasu had somehow run off again to play and so Yuka and I went to find them and we stood around gabbing for another half an hour haha…reminiscing about ramen.
We finally left the fun centre at 5pm and went up to Hillary’s and had some fish n’ chips which was yummy, then we sat around talking, and Yasu ran off with the two boys to play on the grass for a while and then finally came home.
When we got back at 8pm I was so tired I changed into my pj’s (hello kitty of course) and fell into bed and slept until this morning. Phew!
Tonight Jo has assured me belly dancing is on, so in a few minutes I’ll be making dinner and getting ready.
I also start teaching english to migrants this wednesday at a local women’s medical centre, so that should be interesting and fun!

