Sunday

Felicity and I once again attended our Aikido class at the local police station. It is really fun to do, though so hard to coordinate yourself properly. It's not helped by the language barrier, either, so we have to make to with watching intently and the hand gestures of the lovely people who are teaching us.

Today we stayed for the second class as well, which consisted of people with white & black belts. I'm sure they didn't expect us to manage to do any of it perfectly as there is so much to consider: hand position and movements, as well as the same for your feet. Plus, there are particular movements you have to perform as the attacker as well. Difficult, but good fun.

In the afternoon I studied some of my older kanji. I'm trying to keep everything in memory as opposed to just remembering the ones for the week's test. I've done 35 so far, but I filled up my little flash card book, so I'll have to get another one before I can continue.

Later I played pool with Akiko, Humie, and Nozomi for an hour, after which we randomly did karaoke in the big karaoke room where we went during our party last month. They sang in Japanese, whilst I sang in English (I was really happy that they had songs by Bread!). I quite like Japanese music, whereas most other people here, and back in England, don't. I'm not sure why: is it the language thing? I never listen to lyrics anyway.

In the evening we watched a couple of episodes of Red Dwarf Series I. Such a good comedy, that. The old episodes can be really funny, and it's interesting to see how the characters have changed over the decades.