Next up, sabar gasshuku! Over the 11th, 12th and 13th I went to the far western edge of Tokyo-to and did some psuedo camping. Think sleeping in aframes, but cooking over a fire.
Spent three days practicing sabar for a demonstration that is coming up, and in japanese fashion, staying up till 3am drinking crazy amounts of alcohol It was fun, and I guess my japanese is coming to a point where you might call it near fluent?
Pictures up on flickr shortly.
I spent around 12 days on vacation with my girlfriend. First we went camping in Nagano-ken for 3 days. We met up with some of her friends at a rock festival called Kiso-Kodo. It was fun and relaxing. Highlight of the camping was the food. Fresh grilled
seafood and wild boar.
After that, we spent the next 5 days in Okinawa. We flew in on a monday night, Naha then to Ishigakijima. We were on the tail end of a typhoon this night, so it was overcast and raining. The next morning we hopped on a speedboat and took a 45minute ride to Iruomotejima.
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