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Hey there everyone, Firstly, I appear to suck at blogging. Sorry for like, no updates. I have all of my photos on my laptop though and they`re all in date order and I`m going to do my very best to write about everything because I don`t want to forget all the great experiences I`ve had. [...]

☆☆　8th April – Tuesday　☆☆ My first day staying with the Oi family was a big relief! Izumi is my dad’s employee’s wife’s niece’s student and as I’d only ever seen a photo of her kids I had no idea who was going to meet me at the station! Of course we’d talked through emails but [...]

On Sunday the 6th of April I went to the Ayumi Hamasaki concert at Yoyogi Stadium in Harajuku! I got there quite early and met up with a couple of people from the internet and the three of us were the only non-Japanese people there. First things first, I went to the merchandise stands and [...]

Both Wednesday and Thursday were fairly uneventful! I wanted to go to Tokyo tower on Wednesday but it was so cloudy that I decided to just stay in at the hostel. I’d woken up fairly late anyway as Tuesday had been a pretty long day. In the evening I met three guys – Michael, Vincent [...]

Howdy-doo. Well, for some unknown reason I naturally woke up at 4:50am this morning! Seeing as I wanted to go to the fish markets anyway I got up and dressed only to find that my roommate was not in our room. I suspected she had snuck into her boyfriend’s dorm for the night but seeing [...]

Did some shopping today. Here is a video of me talking lots! I just met another new person from England, she’s going to the fish markets tomorrow (5am wake-up!) but yeah, I’m going to tag along!

Firstly, I just called lost property at Narita, found out that they have my jacket and organised to pick it up at the end of my trip – all in Japanese! Not that you need a huge vocabulary for that kinda thing but phone calls are scary! So yes, 出来た！ I went to bed at [...]

Hi everyone! Well, I’ve made it! I arrived in at about 9am and got an okay amount of sleep on the plane. I could have probably slept more but I stayed up to watch the movies “Juno” and “Martian Child”. Somehow seat ‘K’ ended up being a window seat (in rows of 7, wtf) and [...]

I’ve spent most of today packing my bags and getting ready for my flight tonight. I’m a little bit nervous, I imagine I’m going to be having a good cry at the airport (and so will Russell) but I’m sure after a couple of days I’ll get into the swing of things. It’s time for [...]

I hope everyone is having a Happy Easter and a very pleasant long weekend! Ah! Four days off! Or five days if you’re Russell and work for the government. Though I can’t complain – I’m going to be having 2 months off very soon! I’m a little sick and really shouldn’t be eating chocolate but [...]