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No Yuki! - yet
Well so far the snow has eluded me! there has been a few days when the snow has come to town but it's not a great season so far this year in Niseko... the official start date for the season keeps getting pushed back and now i'm not sure when the mountain will open... really i'm not that fussed as i will be here for a long time and there WILL be plenty of snow in the next few weeks... it's getting colder all the time but we keep getting unusally warm, sunny days... another sign of how messed up our weather patterns are becoming due to Greenhouse emissions?... all in all though i'm still having an excellent time, Studying Japanese, Drinking with the locals, and generally hanging out.

The pension i'm staying in Hang Loose is experiencing a few cancelations and date push backs so i've had a room to myself for the last 2 weeks (which is great)!

Last night we (me and a few guys from the pension) went to a wicked Onsen (Hot -Thermal- springs bath) up the mountain a way... it was excellent! I've applied for my Gaijin card (Alien Registration) and hopefully that will come through in the next week or so and then i can get a cell phone and my own internet connection... when that happens i'll be updating this Blog on a more regular basis and will start to post photos to my gallery section of the site.