up the maroons!
queensland won the first origin game this year! matt bowen intercepted in overtime and scored. wish i saw it! (thanks cam)
so i'm 18 now. although it doesn't really make any difference over here, the drinking age is 20 or 21, i forget.
didn't really do anything special. i was greeted at school in the morning with a very japanese sounding english happy birthday song. they also went down to the seven eleven around the corner and bought me a bag full of goodies - that was nice. my day would have been perfectly fine if my host mum didn't throw a 'party' for me at her restaurant. i was told to go there at 7 and i arrive to find one of her friends there, a lady that is trying to make me go to church, japanese church, 3-4 times every weekend. i went last weekend. i did not understand a single word that was said at the mass. whatsmore, the hymns, of course, were japanese. apparently there is also some high school church club that i am being pressured to join, which has meetings every saturday and sunday. fab!
anyway, that night at my birthday party, the mum kept dropping hints and asking me loaded questions, for example:
to top the night off, 2 old guys at the shop gave mumsy like a hundred bucks worth in yen and said give this to paul, it's his birthday. but she took it and i still haven't recieved it. i really could use that money right now, i've got like ten bucks left.
ok, i've had my whinge now. here's a picture of the view from one of my classes. if i took the pic earlier in the morning, you would be able to see mt. fuji.
so i'm 18 now. although it doesn't really make any difference over here, the drinking age is 20 or 21, i forget.
didn't really do anything special. i was greeted at school in the morning with a very japanese sounding english happy birthday song. they also went down to the seven eleven around the corner and bought me a bag full of goodies - that was nice. my day would have been perfectly fine if my host mum didn't throw a 'party' for me at her restaurant. i was told to go there at 7 and i arrive to find one of her friends there, a lady that is trying to make me go to church, japanese church, 3-4 times every weekend. i went last weekend. i did not understand a single word that was said at the mass. whatsmore, the hymns, of course, were japanese. apparently there is also some high school church club that i am being pressured to join, which has meetings every saturday and sunday. fab!
anyway, that night at my birthday party, the mum kept dropping hints and asking me loaded questions, for example:
church friend: hey paul, if you have time, you should come to church one million times this weekend!i get the feeling that if i don't go, mumsy thinks she will lose a customer. this is a downside of my super-ultra-rockstar-genius status here. in addition, i am 'treated' to dinner with customers (lonely old guys with too much money), so i was taken out for a birthday dinner the night before with some dude.
mum: oh, paul will have time, he can go. can't you paul? can't you paul? (angry face)
paul: um, yeah, i suppose so (cowering in fear)
to top the night off, 2 old guys at the shop gave mumsy like a hundred bucks worth in yen and said give this to paul, it's his birthday. but she took it and i still haven't recieved it. i really could use that money right now, i've got like ten bucks left.
ok, i've had my whinge now. here's a picture of the view from one of my classes. if i took the pic earlier in the morning, you would be able to see mt. fuji.
posted by pauly at 7:00 PM
3 Comments:
Is that guy with the glasses really Wooddy Allen??
Hi Paul,
Come home immediately. At least your Aunties aren't religious. NSW were robbed in the state of origin as I'm sure you realise deep down.
ok, booking the tickets now
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