It was Golden Week at the beginning of May, so to celebrate B, Richard, Leighann and I went down to Shikoku for a camping beach holiday. We stayed at a place called "Toyo Town" in Kochi prefecture. It was right on the beach. It was lovely. We had beautiful weather for most of the time we were down there. It only rained on one day, and that just gave me a chance to read a book- so relaxing. I felt like it was the last weekend where I could truly relax... from now on I have to start getting all my stuff together to return back to Aus. I am currently packing all of my winter gear into boxes to send. And applying for jobs which is very time-consuming!

On the last day of our Shikoku holiday, I managed to get the worst sunburn I have had since I was about 8. In fact, I had forgotten how uncomfortable sunburn can be. My legs were so burnt that I could barely walk. I actually had to ask a teacher to cover one of my classes as it was just too painful. That was a few weeks ago now, and since my legs have almost completely peeled.

And thats not even the best burn I have had this month. No. Silly me managed to spill a bowl of very bloody hot stew on my lap... right onto my thin pants. The stew soaked straight through and immediately started burning me. In my rush to rescue myself from said hot stew, I managed to also burn my hand. B was sitting next to me when it happened, and he settled me down long enough to pull my pants off for me. I got 2nd degree burns on my legs!! I had to go to the hospital and everything. Very embarrassing given the location of the burns. Actually, the nurse thought I had burnt my legs from top to bottom as my sunburn was still in all of its pink glory. In fact, the burns were just above my sunburn line. You can imagine the state of my legs... no short shorts this year. I have a big pussy burn on my leg now... its not healing as well as it should I think. Stupid me! (although it is in a really awkward spot....)

School is going well. I have started telling all the students that I am leaving soon, and they are all acting suitably devastated. This years first year students are so sweet, and I'm actually going to be sad to leave them. The second year class has about 3 students that are interested in English, and 22 students that thought my classes last year were fun so decided to take OC again (Read: 22 students saw an opportunity to slack off and play games for 2 English classes a week). It's really hard to get them to do any work at all.

Anyway, going to pick B up from the station now!

We are taking the day off work tomorrow to go to Universal Studios.... yay! Its exam time so I have no classes... and I have 12 days of leave left to take in the next two months!!