Yesterday I met Kathryn in Tokyo and went for keiko with Yanai Sensei! I left Kamisu at 11:50 (I was delayed watching my students preforming at part of the local festival) arrive in Tokyo Station at around 1:15 (not bad, right??) From Tokyo

As of today, I have been here 1 month!! YEAH! So far the experience has been mostly positive, ive met nice people, living in a nice place, working in fun environment! I havent had any massive culture shock or homesickness yet, so I

My local boss sent me a very apologetic email this morning. And has sent me 5000 yen by registered mail. I appreciate that, fair play to him! The rest of the loan should arrive on Friday (thats from head office)

I cycled to the beach today! Its far away. Around 40 mins I think, but that was ok! The weather was great, not too sunny, but still very hot a nice breeze to keep me thinking I wasnt getting sunburned, and the water

Last year I went to the Kanto University Students Taikai in the Nippon Budkan (and Tokyo Budokan), I went along with Takasaki University of Economics for both the mens and ladies events. It was a great experience, and id love to go again this

Starting to get beyond a joke now, I was told before I left Ireland that I could get a loan from this company in my first week in Japan, ive been here for nearly a month now, and still nothing. I was told

I dont really know what to say, but just before keiko Suzuki Sensei came to me with a present! I honestly felt a stab of pain taking off my Dublin Kendo Kobukai zekken, but they went to the trouble of buying one for

Since my last post, I have decided I do not like Natto. The taste isnt so bad, nor the smell, but the hot and humid conditions my bin is in leads to a very nasty smell when I get home from work! I

Seeing as I am currently poor it was recomended that I eat Natto for breakfast, along with some microwaveable rice, I managed to sort a weeks breakfast for under 500 yen! First impression, its fun to play with! Second, It smells a little like coffee

Keiko was much better tonight! I managed 5 tonight, and I won an Ippon Shobu! This sensei was pushing me hard, and really kicking me around, but when we did Ippon shobu, he kept doing that block that leaves gyaku do open, I

My first day in school and thus my first school lunch! We had takoyaki (octopus, brave face time) tomatoes, soup and noodles (i think it was spaghetti actually) we also had ICE CREAM!!! I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! It was

I went to the Budokan this evening, tis a propper Budokan mind! Kendo Dojo is on the first floor and is quite big! Enough room for around 10 pairs for jigeiko, and a separate area for I think Junior highschool? kids! I went

OK! WOW, what a week! I left Dublin on the 26th of June at 5am, what followed was one of the worst travelling experiences of my life! it was a long trip full of slight annoyances and long ques! I wont go into it, but