Bye bye holiday

The school holiday is over.

So long, and thanks for all the fish, it is time to work.

そろそろテストの採点でも始めようかなあ、なんて思っていたら、いつのまにか春休みも今日で終わり。明日から新学期です。


I got quite few fish this week, but all were small ones.


The view of the moon from the bridge on Thursday.






There were many fish in this size in the river. Still fun though.


We went to chase some herring on poppers yesterday but had no luck.




Canon D10

Climbing walls

My friend, Gus, called me on Thursday, and asked me if I was interested to go climbing some walls.

I wasn't doing much as the weather wasn't that great to go fishing, so it was a timely call.

We went to a place in the City as I can get a discount as a member of the State School Teacher's Union, but by the time we paid an expensive parking ticket on the side of the road, it wasn't much of getting discount.

We were there for an hour and bit, and my arms were already sore. It looks like I need to build #8 9ft bamboo rod, a rock lunching catapult, to strengthen my arms bit.

iPad

I bought iPad on Wednesday.

It is not for me. I bought it for my class. I was told that there are many apps that people can down load to learn Japanese, and I thought our students might be interested in those things.



Speaking of apps though, there are some fishing games for iPad including a fly fishing one. I played their demo ones bit, and what is my verdict?

Throw away your iPad, grab your favourite rod, and go to river, estuary, or surf, whatever you can find down the road.

Go fishing instead of just wishing as Louis Armstrong sings.

Even these little ones are better than 50 lb cyber fish. These are real.