Blogs from Osaka, Osaka, Japan, Asia - page 4

It has been sometime that I didn't write anything, but as I didn't do anything special last week, it didn't require an entry :) However, the full week has been quite interesting and I thought about doing a global week update... so it will be messy and full of small funny anecdotes, hope you will like it :P Flea market: On last Saturday (22nd October), I had no idea of what I will be doing during the day. After waking up quite late from my Kendo after training drinking, and getting back my emotions on the fact that someone in Japan try to steal my wallet :P I looked into my book to see what can be done on a grey Saturday afternoon. I saw that on every 21 and 22 of the month there is ... read more

It has already been two weeks I am here in japan and my kendo fire started to burn me from inside :) so as I am in Japan to practice kendo as well, and I brought all my stuff with me, it was about time to start training in the home country of kendo. After gathering information about kendo clubs on the internet and some help from people who are living here, I decided to go training Tuesday evening in the Shudokan, which is basically the martial art hall of the Osaka castle. It is a really nice place, really big, with one part with tatami on the floor for judo or karate, and another part with wooden floor for kendo, iado and naginata. The training starts normally at 6.30 pm so I left home early ... read more

As now I started the school and have a more routine life, the blog post will be less often and more about special things I do the weekend :) As I said in my previous post, I had my first day of school on Wednesday, which was quite surprising as no word is spoken in English, and it seems that beside me, everyone can already read the 2 "easy" Japanese alphabets (Kana). So it was challenging for me to follow at the beginning, but our teacher is really nice and makes things easy as she explains with signing and drawing what she says when we don't understand. Straight in the subject, after the first day, Kinouchi-sensei gave us homework which was mainly learning the Kana (a part of it) with a test the morning after. Actually, ... read more

Today was the beginning of the new life... The school was finally starting :) This morning I had to meet the class at the school building in order to go all together in the south of the city to Abeno-Kunin center for the entrance ceremony. This center is like a big hall with chairs with a stage (a bit like a theater). We were around 300 people and straight from the beginning, everyone was fighting to see the sheets on the wall where were written our classes and time schedule (morning or afternoon). No surprise for me, I am in the beginner class which is in the morning YAY! In my class, there is Fanny, Rebecca, one Indonesian girl...and the rest is from Taiwan or Korea lol. The class is about 18 students, which seems a ... read more

Today I woke up late again. As it is a national holiday here in Japan, I had no school. I learned it was actually the "National Health and Sport Day" which is commemorating the opening ceremony of the Olympic games of Tokyo 1964. Last night, Reina-san told me that there is a handmade market near Umeda (where I was yesterday), so I decided to go again. I met Fanny (french girl from the school) in the small temple near Umeda, and we were on our way to find the market. On the way, we stopped at Yodobashi Camera, a big electronic store, in order to check for my sim card as I still don't have one :P The store was so crowded, it was unbelievable! It seems anyway,that in Umeda there is always a lot of ... read more