I've still not completely sorted out the photos on the Internet problem. I found ANOTHER website to host them (3rd one after the first closed and the second wouldn't let me link to the page without people having to join the site) but then I couldn't transfer from the other site so I've been re-uploading them all. It's a hassle, and very boring so I've done it in small blocks. Pretty much finished though so hopefully when I change the links they'll all work again!!!

The focus of my energies has shifted slightly in the last couple of weeks. Rather than spending a lot of my time studying Japanese my new flavour of the month is fitness. I've been going to the gym quite a lot recently and in the last fortnight I joined a martial arts gym too. (I went to a kickboxing gym for about 5-6 months when I first got to Japan but the hours clashed with work and it was taking a large proportion of my money so I quit around March-April time). Maybe 2 gyms is a bit excessive on my wallet as well as my muscles but I'll see how it goes in the next month or so and maybe quit the regular gym if I don't go enough to warrant the money.

So In the last week I've done kickboxing, wrestling, grappling and jujitsu classes. It's a fairly small place and as yet I've never seen more than about 8 people in a class, normally less. I'm the only foreigner there but my Japanese is a bit better than the last time I was training so it's a bit easier to understand and the instructor can always physically show me if I still don't get it!

No pics of the gym but heres an idea of what I've been doing...