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We had lunch with James today, he managed to be organised enough to get us available and hungry in the same place at the same time, which was good, because I am generally not good at arranging to see friends before I leave places.I hope he enjoyed the lunch more than it looks like he did.

Luckily everyone at work organised an impromptu dinner on my last day, or I probably wouldn’t have ever got around to seeing any of them. Good people I’m glad to have met.

I like moving around because we make so many new friends, but then I don’t like moving around because it means we have to leave all the same people again… at least blogs and msn make it easy to stay in touch now.

It was after lunch that I realised just how little time we have left in Tokyo, and how many people we should be having lunch with instead of hanging about wasting time.

Another interesting thing that happened today was that a friend I haven’t spoken to for years appeared on my msn and mentioned something about Save The Children in Hefei.

A few times I have considered volunteering in China, but haven’t ever come across anything in Hefei before. Now that a week before we get there, someone mentions it to me out of the blue, without even knowing I am on my way back, I think it must be meant to be.

There was a really interesting job advertised, but I think I will try and volunteer for a while first and see how I go part time. If I can spend more time studying Chinese when I get to Hefei, I will be far more use to everyone later on anyway.

I have put in my application, and convinced Patrick he needs to call them tomorrow for me and ask about what sort of opportunities they have, so now have my fingers crossed.

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