7 more sleeps! only 6 if you count that we probably won’t be able to sleep on the plane on Thursday night. Things are progressing here. Sold almost all of our stuff, including our nightmare airconditioners. Actually we gave them away, but better than paying the man to take them. The only thing left here is the fridge..hrm…kinda big. There’s a lot of mess to clean up, but a few rubbish bags will have to take care of that I think. It’s such a waste, but I’m trying my best to give everything a good home. Not easy to do in Japan, where appliances are only considered good if they are less than 3 years old. I was talking to a student the other day and he told me that he had bought a “used house”! Yep, even houses here are disposable, they aren’t considered investments, but rather depreciating assets like cars. Kind of sad.

Last night we went out for dinner/karaoke with Chris and Julie. We went to our favourite okonomiyaki shop where the chef gave us free dessert because we are going home!

We are still sick, both of us having come down with the flu or something similarly nasty. Coughing a lot, losing voices, runny noses, fevers. the lot! But I think we are over the worst of it and will hopefully be ok for the big trip home!