Arrived to Japan
Yesterday we arrived to Japan. The flight was very smooth and pleasant despite its length. We flew from Budapest to Vienna and from Vienna to Tokyo, both flights with Austrian Airlines. I have already been flying with them like 5-6 years ago when I was in Nepal and Tibet and they were very good.
Needless to say I was dead scared again, but luckily Peter and a good tranquilizer could calm me down. I also tried to get over it with less tranquilizer than last year - I need to take back the control over my fear of flying.
Anyway, as I expected - humidity again. I found the way easily to Abiko and we took the right trains more or less without asking anyone, so I was very proud of myself this time.
Arriving to the guesthouse I did not find the key anywhere. So Peter stayed there with the packs and I went to call the Slumlord to ask how to enter the building without having to break in ... this time he gave me a more detailed description of where they key was hidden so I walked back and found it there. I was VERY impressed to see what a nice order and cleanness was in the whole apartment. It did not look quite the same as it was when I arrived a year ago - two guys were already living in there so NOW I saw the difference, hehe.
After having a nice shower and unpacking everything we went to make phone calls to home to calm down Peters wife who has been very nervous about the flights and such. I also made a quick call and after then we went to hunt for food. Did some shopping in ESPA and then went back to the apartment. After an hour of rest we left for the evening training with Og. sensei in Hombu. Probably because of not being able to sleep for more then 30 hours by that time we were completely burnt out and down so we did not catch too much of the things he tried to show to us. Hopefully today it will be better with H. Sensei
It was a nice surprise to meet some of the guys who has been here last year in the same time too, especially some French and German guys. We talked a bit before training and they asked me whether I knew about that everyone knows about me and "my case". I was a bit puzzled to learn about this - it was not calming at all. Anyway, I guess I will have to live with it from now on.
After training Peter and me went to have a dinner at Seizaria - as I expected, he liked the place very much so it looks like it will be our lunch-place for a while.
We still did not manage to meet His Majesty the Slumlord, because we came home last night when he was already asleep and he left for work before we woke up this morning. It would be nice to say hello and squeeze him a bit, and also to arrange the apartment rental fee and such. I really do not want to always carry this much amount of money with me.
We are looking forward to another hot day here. This morning we got waken up by a terrible noise - there are some reconstruction works on the apartment - they are cleaning and/or painting it outside with some noisy machine. I hope they will finish it in 1-2 days.
Now we go to ESPA for another shopping, things that we forgot yesterday. Today training will be in the evening only anyway, so we have one more day to rest today.
Stay tuned...
Needless to say I was dead scared again, but luckily Peter and a good tranquilizer could calm me down. I also tried to get over it with less tranquilizer than last year - I need to take back the control over my fear of flying.
Anyway, as I expected - humidity again. I found the way easily to Abiko and we took the right trains more or less without asking anyone, so I was very proud of myself this time.
Arriving to the guesthouse I did not find the key anywhere. So Peter stayed there with the packs and I went to call the Slumlord to ask how to enter the building without having to break in ... this time he gave me a more detailed description of where they key was hidden so I walked back and found it there. I was VERY impressed to see what a nice order and cleanness was in the whole apartment. It did not look quite the same as it was when I arrived a year ago - two guys were already living in there so NOW I saw the difference, hehe.
After having a nice shower and unpacking everything we went to make phone calls to home to calm down Peters wife who has been very nervous about the flights and such. I also made a quick call and after then we went to hunt for food. Did some shopping in ESPA and then went back to the apartment. After an hour of rest we left for the evening training with Og. sensei in Hombu. Probably because of not being able to sleep for more then 30 hours by that time we were completely burnt out and down so we did not catch too much of the things he tried to show to us. Hopefully today it will be better with H. Sensei
It was a nice surprise to meet some of the guys who has been here last year in the same time too, especially some French and German guys. We talked a bit before training and they asked me whether I knew about that everyone knows about me and "my case". I was a bit puzzled to learn about this - it was not calming at all. Anyway, I guess I will have to live with it from now on.
After training Peter and me went to have a dinner at Seizaria - as I expected, he liked the place very much so it looks like it will be our lunch-place for a while.
We still did not manage to meet His Majesty the Slumlord, because we came home last night when he was already asleep and he left for work before we woke up this morning. It would be nice to say hello and squeeze him a bit, and also to arrange the apartment rental fee and such. I really do not want to always carry this much amount of money with me.
We are looking forward to another hot day here. This morning we got waken up by a terrible noise - there are some reconstruction works on the apartment - they are cleaning and/or painting it outside with some noisy machine. I hope they will finish it in 1-2 days.
Now we go to ESPA for another shopping, things that we forgot yesterday. Today training will be in the evening only anyway, so we have one more day to rest today.
Stay tuned...
