How was your weekend dave?

Despite having to put up with joanne and all of her gloating about her brand spanking new macBook, my weekend was pretty good. I really got up to just about nothing when it comes down to it. A few things that did happen:
I went to a party saturday night after work, a restaurant called Asunaro holds aparty on the last sat of each month and the owners are really really nice. they went to okinawa last week and brought me back a bottle os aomori (strong okinawan alcohol, kinda like whiskey i guess) a can of okinawan beer and some little charm things. People here are huge into gifts, luckily i had gotten them something when i went to inuyama castle, i also gave them a box of seroogies chocolates. either way it was a fun night eating and drinking with locals and another foreigner who started his own school, his names Tos and hes from tansinia, very cool guy.
I bought a bike! it's awesome, had my second class at the international center, oh, did i mention im taking japanese classes? This week we worked on numbers and counting, sounds like a simple thing, think again. The japanese have numbers from 0-10, for example, 10 is juu, one is ichi, 11 is juu ichi, two is ni, twenty is ni juu, (2 10's)
so thats all fine. but then if you want to say order a burger at mcdonalds you say,
hambuga, hitotsu, hitotsu = 1 when refering to certain objects. Then lets say you are at the post office and you want one one stamp, then you would use ichimai.
for one glass or bottle i think its ipon. so something as simple as 1 or 2 gets to be a pain.
after class i met joanne at the station and we grabbed some lunch and then wandered around trying to find a movie theatre, we did, but didnt want to see anything, we ended up going back to inuyama. then on monday i came back to kanie and went inot work for 32.4 mins and then came home did laundry, cleaned and then jo showed up (with presents
she went to the huge department store 10 floors i think, in nagoya station and found Unibroue, a wondeful beer brewed in canada, so she bought me a bottle, she also got me a thing of super hot spice powder.
ok, break time, and by break time i mean time for work.

if you are reading this then i actually made it to the internet cafe to post it
still havent gotten internet at the apartment