The students at my Junior High School had their little send off ceremony for the 3rd graders this afternoon, so it is all starting to sink in.

Combined with the one year anniversary of the tsunami and earthquake on Sunday, I have been put through the ringer somewhat. And I have now made the most difficult decision I think I have ever had to make. Time for a beer and a few good tunes I think.This being one of them. And I can not wait to see Flogging Molly in Shibuya in April.

To lighten the mood, I downloaded a new app for my Ipod at the weekend. Free wifi is criminally hard to come by in Japan, but my perseverance payed off when a song  came on in the pub and I had a ‘difference of opinion’ with my significant other.