Internet Down... Again

Well, some how we managed to break the internet connection again last night. Hannah and I managed to get Google Talk working the other day, which was sweet, but means confusion when the internet connection breaks. She spent about an hour waiting for me to come online and then phoned me three times to get through, as I went to breakfast (I didn't know what else to do!). Anyway, they've fixed it already, which was nice of them seeing as we're so incompetent.

Haven't done much interesting in the last few days, especially since yesterday was "Respect the Aged Day", and a bank holiday. Just one lesson today, and then I taught instead of Kathryn. More money for me.

I shall note a few interesting things:

• The baths in our rooms are shorter and deeper than at home. This might be because we're supposed to use them like Japanese baths, or it could be a space saving measure;
• Cyclists really cycle whereever they want to: left side, right side, on the pavement, or a combination of all of them;
• They only talk about their food, and (as you may have gathered) I'm not a big fan. It's hard not to offend them all the time, but I think they like the fact that we don't like it. It means we can't understand them properly!;
• They all know we can't speak Japanese, but when we try and communicate in our poor Japanese, they waffle their answers back as fast as they can;
• The length of each sheet of toilet paper is at least double that of in England (might just be the roll I have, though).