Just Another Smith...

I really really didn't want to wake up this morning, it seemed like too much effort and I was all up for just staying in bed. My eyes felt so tired, I'm not sure if they have sand in or I'm just exhausted?   Daryl came to find me at breakfast, we both have a day off tomorrow but he wants to go to Hiroshima. I'd heard great things about Shimonoseki though, it has a big bridge and it's by the coast. I might have to find someone else, we'll see what happens. Breakfast was great though, miso soup at 6am?! Cereal and jam roll for me.   Our morning meeting was fun, the Canadians sang Ging Gang Gooly with us and we had our usual to yoga session to stretch out. We were also told that we could shop before we opened.. I bought a few more badges and a wall hanging.   I took it upon myself to sort the shopfloor out today. I spent a good hour or two reorganising and restocking the Hello Kitty display. I'm not sure what's been going on in there but I foun...

Had a bit of a lazy morning today as didn't have  work until 12.30. Breakfast was the best so far - a BLT!!! It was beautiful and went down well with a cuppa.   I had a shower and popped my shortest shorts and a vest on. Ready for a tanning sesh, I was the first person on the beach at 9am. It was already 32°C and I was sweating suncream! I caught up on my blogs (oops) and whacked out the mp3 player and napped.   There were some very strange beetle type cockroach things that kept appearing. One came a little close to my head for my liking and I moved pretty sharpish, much to the amusement of a few onlookers. Went for a little wander instead to sleep under the dome.   I ate my lunch about 11.30ish then went to find my favourite shaved ice man. I confused him slightly by asking for just ice, no syrup.. it took him a while but we got there! Who'd have thought ice would be so readily available, and for only ¥300.   I fancied a change at the shop toda...

I was up nice and early again for work this morning, breakfast was sloppy omelette so I stuck to my cereal and jam roll. I was slightly early for the morning meeting and it was weird to see that people were already queuing for the shop. A busy day ahead me thinks.   At the morning meeting, one of the main guys treated us to a samurai demonstration. It was quite something! We then did some stretching and jumping around, it was great to get the body moving. The plan is for every country to bring something to do every morning, should be interesting.   From the moment we opened til 12.30, I spent my time managing queues. Basically I spent all morning shouting "CASH", I'm still amazed at how many people have been paying by card. It was actually quite fun, although my feet did start to hurt after a while.   As we have a split shift today, I had a good 5 hours to play with. I walked over to the beach, hoping to get on as the tide was out and I fancied a stroll. I wa...

With no alarm set today, I actually got a lie in!! Didn't wake up until 7.45, by which point Alix had already gone and by the sounds of it so had most people in the tents around me. I had a message from Emily about going to Yamaguchi and we agreed to meet at 9am. This meant I had to get a bit of a groove on and get showered and fed ASAP. I joined Mike in the canteen, the queue was the longest I'd had for a while so I didn't actually get out until 9.15.   Once we'd suncreamed up and I'd been to the loo and cleaned my teeth, we were ready to go. There was a free shuttle bus to the train station, but as we left we realised we didn't actually know where to catch it from!!   Typically, as we found the right place the bus was just leaving. The next one was to be at 12.00. Another few hours to fill, we decided to visit the World Scout Centre and other Pavilions. Every country had a marquee to put up a display it play a game or plug their next camp. It was gr...

Thought I was working this morning so was up at half five to get showered and breakfasted. I met Rebecca in the queue, and during our lovely meal of a jam roll, salad and cereal, she informed me that we weren't actually working until 6pm. Another day to fill!!   We still went to the Scout Shop and queued, we were there from about 8ish to roughly 10.30. Met some lovely people in the queue, and actually managed to swap some badges! I bought a really cool Disney bag that has the jamboree logo on, decided I'm going to sew all of my swap badges on it for a souvenir.   We lost most of the crew in the shop, and Alix was meeting some other friends at GDV. Me and Rebecca decided to relax a bit more and popped to the supermarket for a cold drink. I also spotted Pringles and Sprite, they went straight in my basket!!!   After wandering around for a while, I suggested the play area (big kid I know). I'm not going to lie, it was epic. There was a bouldering wall, a ma...