Back from Canada

So if you didn't know I went back home to Canada for four weeks. I kept it hushed from my blog as I had wanted to surprise someone and I knew that they were (and still are) a loyal reader of this here... something or other, haha. It worked well and I had a great time in Canada. It went by way, way too fast. Really, it felt like I only spent a week there instead of four. Even with the fact that it took me a good two weeks to get back into the groove of things here, it still felt too short. I was right in my feelings of what I missed and what I didn't and I miss those things again, now.

Random piece of random - There's this singer guy. His name is Adam Lambert. For the longest time my brain kept going we know this guy! Not personally mind you, just the name seemed familiar. Which was odd because I didn't seem to know any of his songs minus one that was constantly on the radio the last time I was in Canada. But today I happened to be skimming some IMDB things and I came across Adam Lamberg (He was 'Gordo' in the Lizzie McQuire TV show) and my brain went Oh. Okay, so we made a mistake. It's like one letter off. I... thought it was amusing enough to share.

While I was away my Saturday class got a substitute teacher to come in. She's a woman who works for a professional English company, very famous in Japan called ECC and has lived in Japan for over 20 years. Her Japanese is near perfect. I haven't met her but I hear about her from the students and after my second class back, after I left, they had a meeting about me. One of the students is secretly my friend (Secretly because the other class members seem to be very nosy and constantly want to know everything that we do when we hang out) and she tells me that they've been constantly comparing me to the substitute. I suppose that is a common thing to do but... unfair much? Compare me to anyone who has experience and can speak the language and I'll always fall short.

This week my husband has nine days off so apparently we are going to go to the beach on Tuesday. I'm worried that I'm going to get a horrible bubbling burn just like last year. I know you're all thinking ("Well wear sunscreen, dork!") But I put four layers of sunscreen on throughout the day last time and stayed mostly in the shade when I wasn't in the water and it still happened!

The other place we might go to is USJ, Universal Studios Japan. I was also there last year with the family (minus my husband because of work) and I have to say that I'd rather spend money elsewhere. Nothing there was really spectacular. Just expensive and long line-ups... but we were given tickets by a friend so it's already prepaid. And the tickets expire in September so we should probably hurry up and use them...