< Arrived safe and sound in Tokyo
Live here has started. I'm real busy now... >
Now I'm in Tokyo for somewhat over a week. Well technically I'm not even in Tokyo anymore but in Kawasaki. But in my mind this is still Tokyo, as I never really get out of the city whenever I take the train to here.
I arrived in my flat at one of the Keio student residences yesterday and am now somewhat settled in. The flat is smallish, on some accounts maybe even minimalistic, but it'll have do.
The staff (well it's not staff, but I don't now any better word) consists of the landlord, his wife, and japanese coresidents who look after us, as they speak english farely well. So far they seem very nice and helped me getting settled in and readying my documents to go get my foreign resident card at the local administrational office (which I'll do as soon as i'm finished writing this).
To recap:
Last week was spent mainly training judo! I trained every day (except sunday) from 17.30 to 20.00 at the Kodokan. In the future this is going to be a bit more difficult, as it now takes me about an hour to get there, also it's not as cheap as it could be. As a result of the practice I think I put on a bit of mussle already, but on the downside my feet are a real mess now.
Apart from practice I was exploring Tokyo by foot with other judo players and shopping for some necessities and relaxing, mostly relaxing, as the heat, humidity and the overall busyness of this city still take a lot out of me.
At Kodokan theres's the people who are a bit like me, just doing there own judo/language/vacation thing, and then there's a group of foreigners and japanese people going through a seminar of judoteaching, studying to be judoteachers all over the world. There's 2 japanese guys and 2 girls, going to places like Honduras, Syria and so on. Then there's 2 guys from Jordan, 1 from Palestine and 2 from Tanzania. I'm having tea with them every evening recently, which is great fun even though we are having a few language issues.