Here Ohayo gozaimasu, it is Eddie here again. I am really getting used to this Japanese. If I want to say my name I say "Namae wa Eddie desu" . This means Eddie is my name. Or I can say, "Watashi wa Eddie desu", I am Eddie. Pretty good for only being here two days.

Yesterday after Noriko brought me back I went home with Mrs Luke. She took me for a drive in her red car. It is called a K-car. A K-car is a car with a small engine, only 660cc, kind of like a motor mower. It is a cheap car to run and you don't have to pay a lot of road tax if you use one.

The K-car has a yellow number plate. It cost her about $1200 NZ dollars. That is pretty cheap. The most expensive part of owning a car in Japan is the insurance and the road tax. If you own a normal sized car, which has a white number plate, then you pay over $600NZ dollars for road tax. Mrs Luke only has to pay about $80NZ dollars. A big difference.

After work Mrs Luke had to pick up her husband from work and then we went to the supermarket to buy some groceries. We had to go to four different places to find what we were looking for. First to the "Sunny Mart". Here we were really surprised to find Cadbury chocolate. So we bought some, yippee!! We also had to buy whole wheat bread, which is really hard to find in Japan as they like to eat white bread, and cherry tomatoes, as the proper sized tomatoes just don't taste the same as in NZ.

After Sunny Mart we went to "Sunshine" supermarket. We bought some Best foods mayonnaise which is imported from America. Next was the "Nankoku Super" where we found the chotto creamy milk which is low in cream as in Japan they like their milk to be full of cream. Mrs Luke and her husband can't drink full cream milk as her husband gets asthma and it is not good for him.

Lastly we went to the local chemist which over here is called a drugstore just like in America. It is named "Drug Lion". There is a big Lion on it but I don't know why he is called Dug, ha, ha.

When we finally got home we had dinner which was a fry up. We had chicken nuggets, mini sausages (there are no big sausages over here), McCains chips and bread. Sounds good eh but it wasn't too healthy.

At 7pm is the bilingual news, so we watched that and then after that is the only english programme that comes on at night and it was a werewolf programme with teenagers in it. We can't remember the name of the programme but it was good to watch.

About 8pm the TV goes off and then Mrs Luke usually reads or studies Japanese and her husband practises playing his guitar. We went to sleep about 9pm. Mrs Luke said it is better to go to sleep early at night as in the morning it gets light very early, around 5am, and it will be too hot to sleep. She was right.

We were awake at 5.30am. Whoa, too early for me.

Today I am having a shared lunch with some students so I can't wait. I will email you this afternoon and tell you what I ate. Mrs Luke made good old NZ sandwiches to share as they don't usually eat sandwiches for lunch in Japan.

Bye for now, and I will email later.

Eddie