The Friday Weigh-in

Normally at this time of year my healthy diet and training takes a big dip because we normally have visitors for Easter and beyond so this tends to lead me into all manner of bad drinking and eating habits. This year has proved no exception but the big difference is that I have maintained the same level of training so my weight has not fluctuated particularly. Now I am back in healthy mode and I am going to have a period with far less alcohol so that I get can get back to peak fitness.
This year is certainly the year of the podcast as far as I am concerned. Almost daily I listen to Japanese podcasts repeating the episode again and again until I hear and understand everything. I have covered 70 of the Beginner lessons on JapanesePod101.com and I feel that I have made a lot of progress in my comprehension of Japanese if not with my ability to reproduce the language. My motivation for Japanese seems to be inspiring my interest in other languages and I watching far more films and television in French and Spanish as well as listening to Afrikaans on the net as a little hobby.
We have a holiday coming up in France on the Côte d'Opale, I am looking forward to that. France is so close to us but it might as well be half the world away if you never go. It will be a good chance to practice some spoken French again too, should be good.