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I've missed my tea ceremony: that calmness about the room, the whisking, the eating of the little cakes, and, above all, the taste of that sweet tea. Well, it's more of a bitter flavour but still nice.

Yuu, Ayaka, and Erika all came along as usual, though I don't think Rushen's ever going to come again. The teacher spent a lot of the time falling around the place with grief that none of us were going to come next week, and she spent a while giving us playful pushes on the shoulders. She's an odd one! I'm probably working, though I haven't heard anything yet, and they all have exams next week.

We were supposed to be wearing kimonos this week, and the girls had all bought their accessories with them so that they could dress up. As it were, kimonos were absent and we instead rearranged to do it a week on Saturday. Should be fun.

On another note, I discovered later that I had a call from Deutsche Bank during this all. They have invited me for interview either on Friday (yeah, right!) or on 3rd February; travel costs included! So I shall once again be returning to England in a couple of weeks, hopefully business class. I get to see Hannah and my parents again hopefully, though it's going to be very rushed. Should give me some more air miles to spend, as well.

In the evening, I went out for a drink with the others at our new favourite little yakitori bar. Katherine's friend Shona has come to stay for a weeks. She's currently doing a similar thing to us in China, though not as well paid for! Also, Katie and her pilot boyfriend Rich, who are visiting for a couple of days, were there. Katie came on the scheme last year, so it was interesting to meet her. We didn't get much gossip off her, though. She tell us about Happy Cock's "Quiz Night", where you have the chance to win a free shot, or maybe a bit of money if you're lucky. It's tomorrow (every Wednesday in fact) and her last night in Fukuoka before she heads back off to Australia with Rich, where she now lives with him. I'm ont going to go, though.