Playing with the game

I've been playing the game. I do rather wish I spoke Japanese better, I'm missing a bit of the story. Also, sometimes it appears that I get "bonus" watts on my pokewalker. I'm not really sure why, but the pokemon has a little smiley face or a music note, so I assume it's really happy for some reason.

Also, I ran the numbers to hit the highest Pokewalker route, you need to walk 1400ish miles. Lets say, you walk 10 miles a day every day; it would take you half a year to hit that. I'm guessing that long before that you'll become bored with the game (or have figured out a good way to cheat the game).