Judo Saga

Cathy and I went to Comiket on the weekend and didn’t have the time of our lives we thought we would. I don’t think doujinshi is really my scene although the Cosplay and homebrew games were pretty fun. Also the crowds there were massive, we waited an hour after the event had finished and there were still hordes of people shuffling out of the convention centre, I don’t think I’ve seen that many people in my entire life. Apparently some guy posted on 2chan that he was going to set off a hand grenade at the convention, I guess we saw a few security gaurds around the place to back that up.

Check out photos of Cosplayers here.

to		Cathy
date		Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:16 PM
subject		Re: <3
mailed-by		gmail.com

Finally got to school yesterday, but none of the staff new we were
coming and only a few teachers and the office ladies were there to
meet us.

Today we had the mayor and I managed to interpret a fair bit of it for
the group, yoshida sensei only had to help me with little bit.
Afterwards we had a ceremony where we received our contracts and even
though everyone, the higher ups and all, were in the room and were
waiting quietly and we were making gestures at suda sensei to say why
hasn’t it started yet, he said to us “the ceremony starts at 3 oclock
so we will wait 6 minutes” and so we had to sit there for six minutes
till he said “ok the ceremony will begin now”. lol.

to		Kat
date		Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:43 PM
subject		Re: TW dates
mailed-by		gmail.co

There was this talk show on manga on the other night, and it looked
pretty cool. They had manga experts on and they’d display some manga
pages and read out the speech bubbles then discuss it and then show
some anime episodes but there was a storm that night and it messed
with my reception so I missed most of it. maybe it’ll be on next
week.

The problem with blogging about all the numerous crazy stuff you got up to is that by the time you get around to blogging about it you’ve forgotten what you got up to. Anyway I’ve settled into my new town of Iwaki, Japan and just got the internet setup which is why I’m finally able to blog. I guess photos are in order, here’s my apartment: Click here for more photos

Its pretty big and while I’m living in the tatami room, tv room, kitchen laundry and bathroom, I have this room which is pretty huge that I don’t know what to do with. At the moment its my ironing room.

I’ve been to 2 festivals so far, last Saturaday Melissa, another Australian jet who lives in the same apartment complex as me, and I caught the bus down to Onahama ( a port in Iwaki) to see the firework tournament and bumped into James (the british jet) and mat (the american jet), which was an awesome night. Cathy came to visit me not long after that and we went to the Tanibata festival and watched the big street dance: Click here for more photos