How can they try to turn away money that might help handicapped children? She might just be doing it for publicity but if she actually donates the money then good on her…Perhaps she should of just made an anonymous donation though but if she wants to go public with it that is her choice isn`t it?!

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Story from here

Prostitute offers sex for charity

A high-class Chilean prostitute touched by a charity
telethon’s bid to raise money for handicapped children has stepped
forward with her own contribution - 27 hours of sex.

That’s how much paid sex work the escort, Maria Carolina, has said she wants to contribute to the Teleton association.

The money she earns from the marathon session, scheduled for November 30-December 1, will go to the charity, Ms Carolina said.

She said she would post a picture of the bank deposit slip on her website afterwards to dispel any doubts.

“I am going to contribute with my work to a purpose that touches me deeply,” Ms Carolina said.

She has spread her message through several online sites and television programs.

But the administrator of the Teleton foundation, television
presenter Mario Kreutzberger, has thrown cold water on the proposition,
saying it falls well outside his moral guidelines and he cannot accept
it.

Ms Carolina, though, said she was determined.

“How can someone question a person who wants to put her job at the service of a noble cause?” she asked.

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Nothing to say so thought I would post a picture of the christmas cards I made on the weekend!

I am definitely going through a bit of a creative stage, and you know what, I`m loving it. It is great stress relief to do something with my hands!!!

Off to put up my christmas tree! Oh how I love Christmas!

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• I don`t exactly have the best reason for not posting yesterday….Although we didn`t have the internet in the apartment yesterday. Turns out we hadn`t paid our bill….Usually it comes off my debit card because when I signed up with NTT when I was living alone in Kichijoji and because I was foreign that was the only option they gave me. But we switched the account to Shun`s name when we moved and turns out cos he is Japanese and they trust him to pay they started sending us bills and we didn`t notice. We kind of just leave our mail in a pile on our table open…But about two weeks ago our mailbox got locked and we didn`t know the code to open it…so we just left the mail in there!!! It took our internet getting switched off to actually finding a way to open it!!! How ironic also that the time it doesn`t get paid is the first couple months it is in in Shumpei`s name!!!
• I love my new mac. I think I love the fact that i can sit anywhere in the house though and use it and the internet the most!!! I think perhaps it needs a cute cover though to keep it clean and pretty!!!
• I finished the purple scarf that Shumpei requested once I started knitting again….Here is the finished product..

• I am over my stomach bug now!!! Although still don`t feel 100%….I feel like I am coming down with a cold now! It is never ending…
• Things have been really good with Shun and I recently….last night we didn`t get to sleep til after 3am because we just kept talking…Talking about the future mainly…Shumpei decided definitely a few weeks back that he was going to come to Australia next year…we will be going in July I think! It was a huge weight lifted off my shoulders because i had been worried that he was going to say he wouldn`t come! I am very excited about the whole thing…We have been talking about things a lot. He has started talking to me a little in English….It is funny to hear him speak English with me sometimes after so long talking in Japanese…But I guess I better get used to it!

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I finally managed to get the couple of photos that I managed to take in Kyoto, before my camera broke, onto the computer. Here are just a couple of the photos from the trip! Shun and I try to take one trip together inside of Japan each year…Last year was Okinawa, this year Kyoto, and next year hopefully somewhere close like Hakone (Because we will be going to Australia in July we will need to go before then…maybe late February we will go for onsen!)

The above photo is of Shun and I at Kiyomizu-dera . This was my first time to visit this temple, and I am so glad I got to see it. I had really wanted to see it when I was in Kyoto several years back but hadn`t had enough time.

We sat in a mini outside cafe and enjoyed tea and cha-dango…This was my first time to try cha-dango….I am not a huge fan of mochi because I always feel like I am never going to be able to get it all out of my mouth…but with the tea it was actually quite nice!

No temple is complete without some kind of dragon! And what better than a dragon fountain!!!

We also went to visit Heian Shrine….I only managed to get two photos before I dropped my camera and it broke…

It was beautiful though!

I had a great time in Kyoto. It was a shame about my camera…I would have loved to be able to show you photos from when I met up with my highschool friend Kanako!!! I did use a disposable camera the rest of the time I was there but I still haven`t gotten around to getting the photos developed!!! When I do I will try to find a scanner and scan some in!

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It was a long weekend this weekend, friday through to Sunday and I have been ill for most of it. On Thursday night I had a temperature but on Friday it was gone so I went out to do some christmas shopping (Almost finished!) and then yesterday I had a headache all day and stomach cramps and then today I feel so ill, like I have the flu but with stomach cramps too that come in waves and nausea which means I haven`t eaten anything all day…nothing but water.

I hate being sick!

At least I can write this from my bed on my mac which has wireless! Isn`t wireless a great invention!!! Plus now both computers seem to be functioning fine with the internet….

I still wish I wasn`t sick though. If I wake up feeling the same tomorrow then I won`t be able to go to work….All I have done today is wake up check my email, watch a movie, slept, checked facebook, slept and now I am blogging. I have barely left my bedroom….

AGHHHHHHH……………….I don`t want to be sick yet again!

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Well I missed a day posting in my every day challenge. But I had a very good reason! I got my christmas present early from Shumpei, a brand new macbook! YAY! So last night when we finally got home we were setting it up and it took a long time to set up wireless internet on it since neither of us had ever used it before…it still isn`t perfect (For some reason we can`t seem to have both computers using the internet…Even though we don`t want Shumpei`s to be wireless!)

But if I had posted I was going to ask what you see on the moon. When you look at the moon do you see a man? Do you see a rabbit (Japanese people see a rabbit…and now every time I look at the moon all I can see is the damn rabbit…the man who I saw all through childhood has disappeared!)

So now I have a brand new macbook to customize! I am transferring my music from an external hardrive to itunes now…which I am so happy about because I haven`t been able to update or add new music to my ipod in a year!!!

I am still getting used to the macbook, but I love having a new toy to play with!!!!

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I don`t smoke….and Shumpei quit 18 months ago when we moved in together. We had no veranda, just a window and I wouldn`t let him smoke inside the apartment. Except now he has started again….I don`t mind so much, I knew he had the occasional cigarette when he was out drinking with friends but it had become a bit more regular recently until he told me he had started again and started carrying around packs of smokes again.

I act a lot more pissed off than I am about it. I figure if he wants to smoke thats fine, I would expect him to quit for good if we had children. He can`t smoke inside and to tell you the truth he hardly ever smokes in front of me anyway. He must have a cigarette walking home from the station then doesn`t have another one until I go to work in the mornings.

Should I be more angry about this? I tell him all the time he smells of smoke and that he won`t be getting any sex from me if he keeps up the smoking or that I refuse to make breakfast for someone who smokes but really I don`t care much. I figure he will quit again when he is ready…

Should I be more worried that he has developed this habit again?

I guess I am just used to smoking, so many people here smoke and in restaurants and bars etc everyone smokes. The other day my taxi driver smoked while he was driving me home…..I think shumpei will be in for a shock when he goes back to Australia since you can`t smoke anywhere there anymore except in the privacy of your own home or car….well we`ll be using my car and we`ll be living with my dad probably and there will be no smoking in his house!

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I have read four non-fiction books in the last six weeks. This is a bit accomplishment for me since I think I have only read one other non-fiction book in the last year but I seem to have found a bit of a groove and actually have started to pick up non-fiction books off my overflowing shelves before picking up my normal reads, namely chick-lit and mysteries. All four of the books have been totally fantastic too!

I started journalling again a couple of months ago and have been keeping track of what I read each month (I have never done anything like this before, I estimate that I read more than 100 books a year but I couldn`t really be sure. It might be closer to 200! Last month I read ten books and so far I have read five books this month (This doesn`t include the numerous children`s books I read EVERY day at work)

I made a pile of books I wanted to finish before the end of the year and it looked like this

I have read 11 from that pile but 4 books I have read in the last six weeks were not even on that pile to begin with, they have been added in! I doubt I will finish them all, which means they will then go back on the bookshelves at the back!

Anyway the four non-fiction books I read were

- Story of my life- Helen Keller

- Eat, pray, love- Elizabeth Gilbert

- The Mother tongue- English and how it got that way- Bill Bryson

- Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis

They were all fantastic and I am so happy with myself for expanding my reading horizons a little more.

Helen Keller`s book is an amazing read just because the amount of things she achieved in her life despite the obstacles in her way was amazing. I remember reading about Helen Keller when I was younger and I had always meant to read her own work, I am so glad that I did!

Elizabeth Gilbert’s book was so great because I love reading about traveling adventures and she just made up her mind and went to Italy, India and Indonesia. I especially loved the different Italian words she dropped into her story from Italy….It is easy for me to relate to someone that has to learn to think and speak in another language. I think that this inspired me to read some more travel literature and non-fiction books of others travel adventures!!!

Bill Bryson`s book was fascinating. I had no idea that English had developed in the way he described. It is the first book by Bill Bryson I have ever read and I can not wait for the next one I read (Any recommendations?!). This book is such a interesting and funny read and I recommend it to anyone that is interested in writing or words but also people that know other languages, not just English because it touches on some interesting points! I had never really thought about where new words came from before!! For example dog, it popped up in the middle ages and no one knows why….up until then it had always been hound. It was also fascinating to see what words we use in Australia are considered British and which words are considered American. I am a terrible speller but was comforted by the fact that there were more than eighty spellings of Shakespeare`s name have been found and that Shakespeare himself often spelled his own name different each time!

Anthony Kiedis`s autobiography was written in a way that it felt like you were there with him going through the anguish he went through to kick his drug and alcohol habit. I have someone that is very close to me that struggles with addiction and this book made me realize the struggle that people must go through to quit drugs or alcohol….it touched very close to home. I saw the Red Hot Chilli Peppers live a couple of years ago and have always liked their music. It was interesting to read a behind the scenes of a band that I like. (OMG the concert must be close to five years ago now!) Thanks to my brother and Suzy for recommending this book!) I finished this book a couple of days ago now and it was great to finish it off on the sofa with a blanket listening to some RHCP music!

You can tell from my writing that I do not do good book reviews. But if you get the chance to read any of these books then it will be time well spent!

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Can`t do a proper post today…am exhausted. There is a lot going on……still sick with migraines, move to new school and family stuff are making my down time seem non-existent.

But I at least found time to post this photo. Flowers I received from a student several weeks ago. I am not sure I had ever seen roses in such a pretty shade of pink.

What is your favourite flower? Mine actually isn`t roses but gerberas…and cherry blossoms of course!

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Went to Design Festa yesterday and it was such a nice day walking around looking at all the stuff by some super amazing and talented designers! I also saw Deanne and Masao who own TOKYOMADE (If you have never checked out their site go NOW!) whom I hadn`t seen in ages so it was great to catch up, even though they were super busy! I also met Yuki from kissui.net for the first time….her and her bf were there and he is from Brisbane so it was good to meet her and have a chat with her bf about Brisbane!

I was so angry that I couldn`t take any photos since my camera broke in Kyoto and I have been told it is not fixable. I will be getting a new one sometime before Christmas (Chrissy present from my mum, Yay! Thanks mum! I love you!) and I can`t wait to start taking photos again. Not having a camera makes you want to take photos all the time!!! I think when I get a new one I will be right back into taking photos everyday!!!!

But since I have no photos to show from the day I thought I would show you some photos of jewelery I have made in the last couple of weeks!!! I wish I could show you the things I have knitted also (Only a couple of scarfs so far and one bootie…which didn`t really turn out!) but I will have to wait til I get my new camera before I can take photos. I have also started thinking about Christmas cards….will have to get stuck into making them this weekend otherwise Christmas will be here before I know it…It was inspiring to walk around Design Festa and see what other people make and do….I was very jealous since I don`t have the talent to come close to being as good as most of the people at the event…

Posting everyday is going OK so far. I suppose when you say your going to do something it is easier then to actually remember to do it…as opposed to thinking to myself that I should blog more!!! I might be going camping this weekend though so blogging may be difficult…I really should how to learn to do short posts from my phone!

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