This Is Vedy Important... Mm.

Went to my 2nd Aikido class yesterday. *Phew* I had no idea it was gonna be 4 hours of getting my ass kicked.

Hour 1: Boken practice. But apparently in Japan they use extra heavy bokens that us gaijin can barely lift . I thought my arms were going to just snap out of their sockets like Legos or something.
Hour 2: Jo practice. Much easier than the boken but still tiring.
*Break* <-- I thought this was the end of class, little did I know we had just begun.
Hours 3 & 4: Aikido practice. Mostly getting thrown repeatedly into a mat and having my wrist locked in what can only be expressed as "HOLY SHIT FUCKING OW! OW! OW! I CAN FEEL MY RADIUS SPLINTERING PLEASE STOP!" Yeah apparently they don't stop when you scream, only when you tap the mat. Gotta follow protocal I guess.

But you know, it was tough but a lot of fun. Also, I can see that Aikido is pretty serious business. If you really study it I think it has a lot of practical application. One of the guys in the class had been studying for 40 years, after class he put on his suit and walked out with a breifcase. I feel sorry for anyone trying to mug him in the night thinking he's just some harmless saliryman.

Slowly approaching the 2-week mark in Japan. The loneliness is slowly starting to set in. I really need to just get out of my brother's house and start making my own friends. Soon enough that'll happen I imagine. But right now it doesn't feel soon enough.

Anyways, at a cute little restaurant that has free wi-fi. Apparently wi-fi is a pretty rare commodity in Japan. I think they limit a lot of these sorts of technologies as a means of preventing any future Godzilla type mutations in the fucking MILLIONS of bugs that live here. I could imagine some Japanese person imagining that if some spider crosses with some stray wi-fi signal it'll mutate into a 20-story tall arachnid capable of shooting acid web on city buses and fucking up the JR time schedule. THE RAIWS MUST RUN ON LIME! WAKADE MASU?!

God I love it here.

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