Pamela`s swan song

Valentine`s passed typically uneventfully, although this year I have an excuse. Japanese Valentine`s traditions revolve around giving men chocolate, so the absence of attention was not so remarklable. I did have to make Valentine`s cards with some six-year-old girls, which seemed dubious to me, but I used the opportunity to cobble one together for Sean. Quite possibly only the second or third card I have ever given. I treat my faux boyfriend well. Roll on White Day when the chocolates are all mine. I also enjoyed lots of students` clumsy questions about giving men my chocolates, which reminded me of Adam and Alex`s old euphimism for sex and made me smile more than the students expected me to.

Last night was Pamela`s leaving do - another night in the George, although after too much gin and no dinner, I was smashed and ended up in the Suraj Bar with Ryu-san and his friends, with Suraj trying to push me onto every man in the place. I was quite happy as his attempt to pair me off with the incredibly handsome, but possibly too young, barman - I am not sure the barman felt the same. I will try to go in there when I am sober for once and see how things progress. It did mean I missed out on karaoke, which may have been for the best as there were around 30 people in there and, as drunk as I was, I would have definitely outed myself as a karaoke nazi, switching off other people`s songs and lining up 47 for myself.

It was quite a good night, according to Pamela, although some idiot ruined it by popping Mattius`s blow-up doll (a birthday present) and then running off without paying. There are some complete pricks out here. Pamela was very pragmatic about it though and generally had a very good time. I`ll miss her loads. She is a very nice, very normal girl - fairly special at home and an incredible rarity here. We have already arranged to meet up when we both get back home - she is going via Germany, so we might both get back at the same time.

I only managed to drag myself out of bed at 4pm today and am going for fabulous yaki niku with Irish Steve in a bit - we trained together and it`s the first time I`ve seen him for ages, but I`m really looking forward to it. Yet another normal in this land of wonky losers. Teachers really are geeks. Regent was incredibly misleading in recruiting lots of very nice people. They aren`t like that here.