Keepin in touch with the world!!!

Welcome to our blog... so we had a website with yahoo before but updating it everymonth became a bit of a drag... cause it usually took about an hours or so to figure what we did last time so we hooked up with this blog and its soo much easier so yeah... here it is..

So here we are..... two months and a bit later time has flown by. Hmmm what has happened? Ok... so summer holidays (july-sept) came and had about a month or so of no school. Most of the summer was spent playing tour guides to Chanel's whanau who arrived here about mid august. Told them not to come during summer cause its really hot... but coming from winter.. it was exactly the medicine the wanted and boy were they surprised hot, hot, hot! Overall we all enjoyed each others company and was cool to have a bit of home kai!!! Tui, cookie time, mallowpuffs..... Tiki toured around shiga and then ventured out to the bigger cities kyoto and Osaka where we saw some culture and of modern day japan. When asked what they enjoyed the most...it was the shopping and huge train station... well i guess everybody is different! Was awesome sharing japan with them and especially ellioup! (chanels brother elliott).

After recovering from having manuhiri here we slowly cruized back into mahi here, starting school off with sports day and cultural festival which meant the students spending the first week preparing, which meant no teaching for us. And more time in the art class for Paora finishing off some of his works.... which was part of the exhibition by the school. We even got invited to eat Octopus balls! with the art class as a way of saying thanks for all their hard work.

Now that summer is slowly passing we have regained a bit more motivation to get out and see some of the sites that weve been wanting to go to but its been either to hot...or not enough putea. so have this month ticked off Himeji Castle (Japans biggest and finest example of a traditional castle of old) and also Todaiji (The worlds biggest wooden building which houses japans biggest bronze buddha) both were really amazing constructions... and we have to say you have to see it to try and appreciate the effort that would have went into building them.

Back on the homefront we went and had our last dip in lake biwa befor the summer ended... cruized over to the west side of the lake to join some of the english teachers at a popular water sports centre where we chilled with kimi and jody and got the chance to try water skiing and wind surfing... our only advice it looks a hell of a lot easier than it is... trust us we spent most of the day falling off again and again. Choice day! and to top it off we drove home with kimi and jody around the top of the lake back towards the east side... and got to see a whole different aspect of nature in japan....... reminded us of home travelling around lake taupo... Awesome!!!

Have finally put our A's into G's and have started japanese classes... yep one year later..... better late than never! its awesome actually being able to have one on one time with a teacher. So here hoping were the Bomb when we get back!

Well best be off for now... well be keeping this blog updated pretty regular... so keep in touch.
Sweet
Paora & Chanel