Early wake up. Prep, and head out to the front of the gym, wearing my running outfit. Bow in, and we split into light, mid, and heavy weights. Our group went downhill and onto a path made within the small forest we had entered. Our coach told us five rounds, but we ended up taking a longer path, one round 1,700m, so were told to stop after three laps. This morning happened to be a good morning for me. I was 3rd coming in from that long run. Then we had to sprint once around a small path, and out of all the athletes in my category, I ended up being first to come in from that sprint. Now everyone is tired, but considering that so am I, I felt pretty good. That was our last running training. From now on, I believe we are going to walk in the mornings, or so it says on the schedule.

I stayed extra long to stretch my legs, got back, entered the shower, and raced to the food hall to eat my meal.

The mountains were gorgeous this morning.

The second practice was similar to yesterday's! We started with our gi tops on, doing some gripping exercises out in front of the gym. Then, we saluted a man that came and gave the team some money. After that, we headed into the dojo, and performed some exercises which were similar to what we did yesterday. Timed exercises with a partner. Again, I was with Fubuki, and we held through the whole way.

We finished, and off to lunch. I won the janken (rock-scissors-paper) game again! Yay! Two for me!




Today's judo practice was earlier, since we had a BBQ planned at night. It started well, but at one point I just couldn't move. I reached my limit. Of course it was hard, but that's not why. My gi was soo hard and everytime I moved or my opponent pulled my sleeve or even just standing there, the burns on my skin from the gi just made it impossible to use any of my strength. So I took a break during the practice, unable to move. I should probably buy a long sleeve under armour shirt or something...

After that, in and out of the bath, and off to the BBQ. I got stuck with all the first year students. Haha, they served us all rice, and we started cooking. I took the initiative, and placed the meat on the grill. We kept eating, and we kept adding meat onto the grill. But on top of all the meat we had, we kept receiving meat from our sempai (seniors), which made it impossible to finish our own. At one point during the meal, they started a weird competition of imitation where they took turns imitating funny things, or people they knew. I didn't quite understand it all but it was entertaining to see they had this ritual.




After having filled my stomach with more meat that I ate in the last week, I chatted with some friends, and walked back to my room.


After brushing my teeth, I watched some of the boys play a werewolf game that Japanese all seem to love.


One more day over.