Well what a weekend! This weekend just passed I am Kelly ran our first marathon together. That is to say our first marathon ever (the 22nd Naha Marathon) which we happened to have run together. We ran together and finished in 4 hours and 28 minutes. It was a pretty amazing experience and finishing felt good! I am so happy we got to run it together, we kicked ass! We placed 3550th and 3549th, unfortunately their system can't handle people who finish together (that is out of about 20,000 people btw). After the buzz of finishing faded the pain hit us like a ton of bricks, oh boy did we hurt and do we still hurt. I still live in fear of having to go down stairs. I have read it can take several months to fully heal from running a marathon. After we had showered changed and iced we dragged our weary bodies back down to Naha for the after party for us Marathoners (I, Kelly, Andy, Yasmine, Perry and Ryoko) and the people who had sat Japanese tests that day. It was also kind of for my birthday, I didn't plan that but it kind of happened. Enjoy the pics!
Celebratory cigars for those who had taxed body or mind that day (mine was Cuban of course).
Before the marathon, waiting in the monorail station. From left to right; Yasmine, Ryoko, Perry, me.
The happy JUST FINISHED A MARATHON people!
Perry demonstrating just how much he likes lubing up before a marathon (it is actually quite fun).
Dressed for dinner.
The two islanders oozing style and class.
So as you may know my birthday was on Monday. I mentioned on Monday to the kids in my after school english conversation class that it was my birthday. 'Happy Birthday' they cried. What I wasn't expecting was the following. On the Wednesday I popped home to get some flash cards I wanted to laminate for the elementry school the following day. When I came back all the teachers where having a meeting. Argh I though but I needed to laminate so I bust into the room and got the laminator as quietly as I could (dropped a bit of it). While I was laminting three girls from my english conver appeared. They seemed happy to see me, when I asked them what they were upto they said 'suprise' and went off. They reapeared a little while later with a bag, 'Birthday present!' they declared! Wow! I was Happy! They gave me a bag (Christmas) filled with candy and things, I made a show of it and rummaged around. That is when I found the rather feminine bracelet. They started giggling but I decided to throw caution to the wind and had them put it on me, then I trooped them next door so I could show off the bracelet (fake pearls with a silver heart) to the secretary (a guy) to much giggles from the girls. Then the tea lady popped in so I asked her if it was cute too. More giggles. I told them I was 'cho ureshii,' more giggles and then they left. The cute (and cheeky) little blighters. I intend to wear it to class. BTW that pic of from my phone (on the highest setting - not bad).
The wonderful lamp that kelly made for me as one of my brithday presents from her. Thankyou darling!
I am coming to the sad conclusion I aught to stop doing skids with my bike....until I get a new tire that is! I was getting quick good, I could skid into a pretty tight space, useful for parking inbetween all the student's bikes at the school.
