I want to add a few extra activities of the day here. Today I played table tennis at the Junior high school with the students. It was quite fun hitting the little ball back and forth. We used to have a table tennis table back in Wellington and I think even New Plymouth and its been a while since I played. The students are really good but I think I did quite well. I felt my job was to help the students improve and not to win anyway. I can`t remember the table tennis rules but I couldn`t explain that it japanese. Anyway, it was a casual game where I don`t think the rules mattered too much anyway. They are quite keen on sports here. After that I was invited to a riverside barbeque with a group of japanese and korean exchange students. The odd (and fun) part was that they had all these fish to barbeque but they released them into a sectioned (netted) off area of the stream and the students job was to wade about and to catch all these little fish that look like small trout - with their hands! I managed to catch two of the fish and was congratulated by the peoples. In japan they say `yataa!` which means success, when they are successful. It was quite fun. Although I`m not a big barbeque fan, it was fun catching the fish. I still don`t have any actual work to do so I think maybe I will start creating some for myself, maybe offering english classes at the town office or perhaps and english newsletter. I`ll think about it. They say its good to do as much as possible on the JET programme and to extend oneself by adding to the community.