Okazaki Ohwa Hotel

... before last week, that I went to Karate, was the night before the Typhoon. I don't know why I went. It was dangerous, no one showed up, it was raining cats and dogs (never used that before, but '*******' just wouldn't have cut it), and I showed up. Even the main sensei, whom I was expecting his own Karate-gi from, didn't show.<br>Anyhow, it was a wonderful experience. Before and after the session, there is always about 30 seconds of meditation ...

... the most tense part.<br><br>In onsens, you wear nothing. They don't want you contaminating the pool with your germs, or the germs on your clothes; the whole idea of onsens is that it's natural. So, au-naturel I went. When I sat down next to these two older guys, I struggled to keep my bandage on. It was already coming off within seconds of contact with water. Damn lying labels (or maybe I just couldn't read it properly).<br><br>Holding it to my chest, I ...

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... by foot. Now, whether or not it was a sport, or whether they claimed bragging rights is a different matter (I'm no historian), but I have to admit that I'm ready for the next one.<br><br><br>But really....doing what I did again today, and then twice that, is something I should at least train for this time. My time was 1 hour and forty minutes. Two 60 and 64 year old men beat my time by about 20 minutes. Now there's motivation.<br>

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... a conga line to end off the party. I met up with John afterwards but on the way there ran into Mai(One of the Aichi three) so I may have a clubbing buddy for tomorrow *fingers crossed* turns out she lives close to kamimaezu, so I might even have a shopping buddy! Anyways had a little bit of a celebration dinner at Saizeriya although once again lost my appetite...I think it's John, I never can seem to finish a meal in his presence. So I ...

... made paper, and how they cooked fish, and what toys they played with. We went for lunch and i had that famous mochi covered in miso (can't quite remember the name) as well as fish, soba, daikon, beans and green stuff that i still don't know the name of. Anyways it was good. In the old town there was also a cow named Kaede(hahaha like in Inuyasha) and there were of course chickens and roosters. Nishio also took us to this other temple on the way ...

... there was one girl in a dress. Just one. Apparently she's into fashion according to Moeko. Anyways, I saw no other foreigners, so I was really glad that I was able to go with Moeko. When Moeko's mom finally got through the traffic, we had fries and strawberry milkshakes from Lotteria and then I got home at around 2:30. I made my host sister Tomomi and Naoko laugh because of the chopsticks I put in my hair, considering they aren't ...

... and I watched how Tomomi made the food look pretty. For dinner I had shabu shabu again and then at around 8:30 I headed for ID. It took me about an hour to get there and then I met up with Jay and John where John proceeded to start me off slow with my drinks. Thank goodness! Jay always has my back, he talked to his friend Satomi who apparently was there by herself and so I made a new friend ^_^. We danced ...

... with DJs, hahahaha. So yes I now know who Lil Wayne and Neo are. I guess I better get working on improving my knowledge on that. We went for lunch and surprisingly I could not finish my meal. Maybe my appetite has shrunk...I had some more Christmas cake for dessert though. Yummy! John had promised to show me around Nagoya but kept saying there wasn't really anything that interesting. Instead, we went window shopping at The Loft or rather I did, hahaha. just ...