Feeling better but unfortunately I dont have much time to write so I will be brief.

I have started Japanese lessons so now I can successfully ask

1. What is that?
2. What is this?
3. What is that over there?

the only problem is that if the answer is not school, teacher, student, bank, station, coffee, tea, apple, banana, office worker or book I dont know what the other person is talking about so I may as will have not asked the question in the first place.

I also went to a festival last night. I dont know what it was for but I have decided that when I come back to Australia I am going to kidnap a Japanese child and pass it off at customs as a robot to avoid any criminal charges. They are hella cute on an average day but put them in a hello kitty kimono with matching bag and shoes and they are enough to make a grown man cry.

Talking about grown men, my ability to attract weirdos is obviously cross Continental. I was out walking the other night when a young man decided to show me that the rumors about Japanese men are not true. I was a little shocked at first so I just ignored what he was trying to explain to me and by the time I finished my walk and walked past him again I was a little disappointed to see that he too had stopped exercising and the only thing he had left behind was a wad of tissues. This was a little disappointing as I was eager to learn more Japanese and thought I could try out some of my new phrases

ie What is that?
Is that an apple?
Is that a banana?

I will leave now though as the young man next to me seems to be having some trouble with his pants and I think his computer has a virus that likes pictures of young naked women! Perhaps I should ask him if he has a banana?