This morning, no morning practice but we still had to get up early. We gathered in front of the gym, and basically just streched for like 2 minutes, and then went to go eat. I have no idea why we did that, but I kept my questions to myself. Something you learn to do here in Japan.

After that, we all took a nap, and then to practice.


This time, Sato sensei showed up. Agemizu had left the day before, but here came Sato sensei haha! He asked me if I was okay. He had only came for that one practice, but it shows how much he cares for this team.


After that practice, we ate lunch, and we all passed out. Now after one hour of sleep, I woke up, and went to go see if I could wash my gi. You see, in Canada, we never washed our gi during a training camp. Unless we were at a hotel with washers, but that was rare. Now the Japanese in general are very concerned about self appearance, and so every one washes their gis. I had not brought anything for that, but today, probably because he thought I stank, Fubuki let me use some of his detergent! While everyone was sleeping, I woke up and went to check if any of the machines were open. One just happened to be finishing. I wasn't too sure how to use it, so I asked the first year student who was pulling his gi from it what to do. He kindly helped me through it, and I was very thankful.

Today, we were supposed to have a reading period before our second judo practice, but it apparently got cancelled.

I then prepared for practice, listened to music, and then on to the mats. This practice went pretty well. We just did ground work, and I won a lot of fights. But I have to say most of them were tired and didn't try to their best. But I still felt good.

Once practice was done, I rushed to get my laundry done, and then into the shower room. It was packed. You see, at the resort, there are also people training in other sports, and one huge group of track and field boys are here. They take up a lot of room, and when I entered the shower room, there was no way to move. We were in total maybe 40 people in that small room. I would call that a very "Japanese" experience. Unfortunately, I couldn't grab a picture.


After eating like two ice creams, I watched the guys play the werewolf game again, and went to my bed where I watched some videos on my phone. I was still the first one to go to bed. Funny.