Tell us about your holidays!

[Kinoko]

Hurrah! I'm back at work!

No, wait... I mean, damn.

I didn't see another thread about this, so I wanted to see how people spent their holidays. I'm assuming you all had holidays. If not, it maybe better leave the crazily funny "I spend my holidays at work" or "Holidays?? What's that?" posts. You can post that if you like though!

As for me, I spent two weeks with my fiance who came over to Japan to see me. We spent 4 days in Tokyo (2 in beautiful, traditional Asakusa and 2 being treated like royalty in an AMAZING hotel that ate up my paycheck like you wouldn't believe - well worth it!), one day at the foot of Mt Fuji, both of us seeing snow for the first time, and then the rest in my home prefecture, mostly sick but enjoying our time regardless. I saw him off in Tokyo last Friday, got back home at midnight and got up the next morning for a 3 day English Discovery Camp where I had an absolute BLAST. Who would have known lawn sledding could be SO much fun?

Despite not being ready to tackle school again and teach my "home" kids, I'm back feeling quite refreshed and rather glad that I can just get back into a normal routine again.

[Theme]

it was sux0r
I played a lot of DOTA

o/

[AlbinoPanther]

Hey it was GREAT we were at all beautiful parts of Belgrade and we spend every minute together (hurray for school brake).Our christmas was at 07.january(we are part of Ortodox church) so we first celebrated New year in Lena's house and it was 24 hours of cartoons and a lot ofÃ,  food.And for Christmas we stayed at home(well my parrents are devorsed so i needed to go and visit my mom and after that i go to see my dad and finaly i was with my girl at evening).

Holidays were so good thank you God for more than a 3 weeks of fun AMEN

P.S. tomorrow is a ice skateing dayÃ, 

LD

[Vince Twelve]

got up the next morning for a 3 day English Discovery Camp where I had an absolute BLAST. Who would have known lawn sledding could be SO much fun?

Who would have known that lawn sledding could help you learn English? (Just kidding, my English camp, which is called "Friendly Camp," consists mainly of snorkelling in the beautiful ocean off the coast of a tiny island...)

I spent the holidays with my wife and new baby.  We had a great time and a ton of people came to visit and, as is the wonderful Japanese custom, give us lots of congratulations money.  I also snuck in a few hours of AGS scripting!

EDIT: Oh, and I made two appearances as a really tall and skinny Santa-san.  One at a Kindergarden and one at a church.  That's always fun.

[Kinoko]

got up the next morning for a 3 day English Discovery Camp where I had an absolute BLAST. Who would have known lawn sledding could be SO much fun?

Who would have known that lawn sledding could help you learn English? (Just kidding, my English camp, which is called "Friendly Camp," consists mainly of snorkelling in the beautiful ocean off the coast of a tiny island...)

No, no, it's true. All the ALTs were constantly making cracks about just how useful (or not) this was for the kids in terms of teaching them English. It was more useful for making them like English... I personally thought it was great. Instead of just teaching them this or that that they can really learn back at their normal school, they got a chance to just listen to us speaking fairly naturally, try to speak and to feel comfortable.

Whoops, I didn't mean to rant @_@ I just totally enjoyed it. And that wasn't at you either... more against the couple of sour-puss ALTs I had to share a room with who just complained about everything instead of having fun.

[Vince Twelve]

My favorite part of "Friendly Camp" is when we set up the grills and then make all the little Elementary School kids cook us dinner.

[Kinoko]

We got a fancy french dinner after a very formal lesson on very formal Western table manners. It took an hour and a half to eat 5 courses and the food wouldn't have filled the stomach of my cat.

She's a kitten, too.

(Fantastic soup though. Sweet potato or something. It was like a dessert)