第45回全日本合気道演武大会の案内
45th All Japan Aikido Demonstration
(in the Tokyo Budokan no less)
Our small little dojo in Fukaya was on one of the five huge Aikido-tatami mats inside for a one-minute-thirty-seconds Aikido demonstration broadcast on NHK television (maybe...). If the cameras saw us at all that is. But, Aikido we did. And then watched another 4 hours or so (click on the program). Had to fight off sleep a little bit, but
it was interesting to see all sorts of styles of apparently sanctioned Aikido going on in the world. Some decent looking weapons work at some too. My dojo mates decided to head back around 4 pm (got there around 11am) and drink beer, but I stayed a bit longer. Hung in the park for about an hour while the longer programs of various dojos did their thing, and relaxed under the trees. Then went back and saw the last shihan and doshu do their thing. Movies to post soon hopefully, though YouTubing them would probably work better as my camera is not great. Impressive to see Aikido nice and alive still.
Afterwards, did some shopping in Jimbocho and found a good selection of RPG books here in Tokyo; spendy but good to know. Then met a ladyfriend of mine in Tokyo for some okonomiyaki and shaved ice.
And then Sunday, high seas gaming adventure with the homemade D&D game. A nice weekend indeed. We were rocking pirates indeed! Took down our first boat with no casualties, and our captain unconscious the whole time! I need long range psionics.
I'll try to write up a more recent collection of activities, but I've been having trouble getting to writing. Soon if all goes well.
4 comments:
Oh you are alive! What a cool event!
Finally! A post! All hail the lord
Hey Jason!!
Long time, no... um... see?
I was just browsing through Janna and my travel journal and found an entry from you from almost exactly a year ago... and just wanted to say HI!!
Obviously we made it back safely to Germany and are currently both in the end of semester EXAMS FROM HELL period, but if all goes well we'll have survived by next week. And then we'll already have a whole year of college behind us. Wow.
Anyway, Janna is going to be in Japan for at least a semester starting this October. I remember her call in April like it was yesterday:
J:"Hey, I got accepted!! I have an exchange spot at a university in Kyoto!!"
R:"That's great!! ... Wait a minute, didn't I yell at you for half an hour last time you called because you decided you weren't going? And all because of your fear of flying no less??!"
J:"Well... yeah."
R:"I'm so happy for you! I'm glad you decided your exchange was more important than that measly 10 hour flight!"
J:"Uum... actually.... I decided to go by land."
R:"O_______________O.... huh???! We are talking about an island here, right?"
J:"Well... I'm taking the Transsiberian Railway and then a ferry to cross over."
R: "......." *headdesk*
But at least that means everything is working out for her ^___~.
I'm also going to be in Japan from the 14th of August to the 20th of September this summer and that is currently the only thing keeping me alive. I have an internship and am staying with a host family, but I have about a week of free travel time at the end that I'm really looking forward to.
So I guess all I wanted to do was keep in touch - here's my email by the way: rosanna.salles@web.de. So now (at the end of the post) you might also remember who this is.
Lots of love from Frankfurt,
Rosanna
Update! Update! You need to update.
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