おめでとう ございます！

Two weeks before I came to Japan I attended my graduation ceremony at Aberystwyth University. It was a fantastic day and I have many fond memories of family and friends being around me as we celebrated our success.

Unfortunately for one of our newbies this year, she left a month before her ceremony. Knowing she was feeling down and out we all took her out for dinner and Dawn and I frantically set to work in Starbucks to make her a hat and kit-kat lei.

Needless to say she loved them – CONGRATULATIONS KITTIE-CHAN!