Dinner with Ikema-sensei

I have been to aikido this morning, though Mina, who said she would come, did not in the end, so we cycled instead. It was fun, but we got there a little late and still hardly anybody was there. It was a bit worrying, but people eventually came and we started practicing, so it was all right in the end. We did some cool new moves again as well as some old ones that I have done before. It started raining bucket loads at the start of the second class, which worried me slightly. It seems the rainy season is upon us. Luckily, however, the rain abated, and it was only spitting lightly when we came back home.

I made myself a couple of open tuna and cheese toasties and I ate them whilst watching anime. I also wrote my speech for the Closing Ceremony on the 15th June, the day before I come home.

We were taken out to dinner in the evening my Ikema-sensei at a Chinese restaurant in Futsukaichi. Seb and Maki-san came as well, which lessened the difficulty of the situation. The food was mostly very tasty, apart from the bits of jellyfish that they served us first. Horribly crunchy, but with no taste. We drank about three bottles of wine to four of us, so we were slightly tipsy when we left.

James and Lauma went home, but the rest of us stayed out, moving on to a little bar near the station. It has microchips embedded in the bar and on the menu cover. We had a few drinks there, which Ikema-sensei also paid for, which was good as I only had 300yen. We also partook in a lot of (drunken) chatting. It was good fun. I got a taxi home with Binks and Katherine, and just about beat Seb back, who was on his bicycle.