...feeling a bit sleepy right now. :)

It's been a while since I've last posted anything on here. I guess when you're too busy enjoying an exciting life in a foreign land such as mine, you are too busy at times to write it all down.
Summer has finally come. I've been hiking/climbing (not sure what to call it) mountains around here already. Last week I climbed Fupushi mountain; Fupushi means: FU = wind PU = no/don't/not (negative) SHI = die, so it is something like: Windy-don't-die mountain. ;) Just love these Japanese names. Then on Monday I climbed Genshigahara nearby with one of my junior high schools. That was really fun, but the day's temperatures did reach about 29 deg C which is about 84 deg F. So we were a bit hot by the end.
Classes have been fun. Recently, I've done a mini-unit that is really fun. I have a good friend from college living in Madagascar and working with the Peace Corps. So when this idea struck me and she kindly obliged to write and send a short letter (in an e-mail) written (and addressed)to my students. I showed my students pictures and tell them about Madagascar and her job, and they/we read the letter. Then they write a reply to her which I will send (and for the lower grades, translate into English if they couldn't write much all in English) these letters. Hopefully they will even be able to receive a reply back from Madagascar.
This weekend (yesterday...) I went to Lake Toya for a Hajet (Hokkaido Association of JETs) meeting. The actual meeting part is fairly short and it is just a nice weekend party to hang out with other ALTs from Hokkaido. We're just a big bunch of friends, and we were camping at the lake for the meeting, so it was extremely enjoyable. Toya lake is, however, pretty far from here (Furano), so I only arrived back home last night at 12:45am. As a result, feeling a bit sleepy right now. :)