Another week

Okay, so yet another week is reaching its end and lots of fun things have happened. We've spent this week doing all kind of random things, including studying ^^. After we cooled down from the sugar-kick that we received from the giant chocolate bar (ref. previous post), we decided to spend more of the week studying in a more mannered way :).

I went to the Kendo club, and it seems amazing. The teacher there speaks surprisingly fluent English, which I guess is both a benefit and a con, depends on how you look at it. It is really helpful right now in the beginning, and I'm very happy that he helps me out so much, but perhaps in a month or so I'm hoping that he can start instructing in Japanese or that I will at least understand it. Anyhow, he's currently training me and my friend separately (considering most the other students are about 11 years old and have done this since forever). He's very strict with the small kids, but he's so relaxed with me, which I hope we will get past soon, because I want him to point out every detail he can find :P. He's very happy to have a foreigner there though, no doubt about that. He's even planning on translating a piece of a Kendo handbook in order for me to read it in english and really understand. That's so nice, he's really taking his own time to do what he can to teach me both Kendo and the Culture around it.

Oh, for something completely random, this time of the year is chocolate season (my weakness) and they have Chocolate Pies at McDonald's... I'm gonna turn fat, no doubt. A dollar and they are the best things since chocolate was invented. Well, enough of that, picture is now posted :D.

Went to the Arcades! Amazing experience, no doubt. I mean, I headed to a small one in Hirakata, and it was allright. This one was in Neyagawa (where my host-family lives), and it was this smoky place with lots of sounds and packed with machines. They had the funniest fighting games that I've ever seen. Not so much photo-booths and music games as one might imagine, I guess they're really hot for fighting games. Unfortunately most of the ones that I love and know, are not available here. I'll have to settle of Tekken and Virtual Fighter and keep learning those along with all the anime-games :P. Me and my friend sat down at a game that was basically "Type or Die" and it was like a game where enemies would pop up with a text under them and you type it. All was in romanji (roman alphabet) so it was sooo easy for us, we annihilated that place. Well, until all of a sudden there was "Question Time" and the questions where in Japanese and you had to attack the targets in the right order... well, nightmare for us and we got squashed. Other than that, lots of fun! :D.

Now, as for this weekend, we're planning on heading to a Mall in Hirakata later today, I'll probably buy a new bag and a pair of shoes for the work-out (they violently rejected me while I tried to enter the gym without proper shoes). Furthermore, tomorrow we'll probably head to Osaka and hit the big shopping/gaming districts, that'd be fun! :D. I can't wait to try to Arcades
there, it'd be so much fun :D.