So today was Valentines Day! Valentines Day in Japan is a little different to Valentines Day back home. Instead of being mostly about couples where usually the man makes the effort here in Japan on the 14th of February women give men chocolate. Not only do they have to give chocolate to their lover/partner but also to male co-workers or any man they like/are close to. Then on White day, the 14th of March, Men return the favour giving chocolate to any women who gave them chocolate, although this may not in practice happen. So anyway the female teachers banded together to give all the male teachers chocolate and I also got chocolate from some of the pupils. One came with a cute note saying ‘happy valentines Craig, thank you for teaching English for us for half years,’ pretty sweet I thought. Oh and also we had chocolate cake with our school lunch (valentines cake) and as there was some left I got an extra slice, wicked! To make things even better when I popped down to my elementary school at the end of the day to check on the topic for Thursdays lesson (review!) I got more valentines chocolate and they were opening their valentines cake so I had some more, double wicked! In other news I got recontracted today and while up at my BOE (Board of Education) the head of the BOE offered me some tea and over tea we were chatting about running and working out (he is a decathlon athlete) and he offered me the use of his weights at his house. In fact he was so kind as to drive me to his house then and there so I could look at his weights, he had a nice old traditional okinawan house. So one of these evenings soon I will drop by and lift with him. Not sure I want to get into lifting again what with my running thing right now but a little won’t hurt and it would only be polite. So all in all it was a good day, I also only had one class to teach all day.