Unhomestay?

On Friday, I went to the gym and there he was - the man himself, MASATO

Apparently, Masato told the trainers that he liked my right straight, but my kicks need work. So a trainer came up to me and fixed my kick. From now on, I'll kick the way I was tought here. If it's good enough for Masato, it's good enough for me.

Friday was also my first day sparring. They went light on me, but it was ROUGH. The leg kick is a staple of training here, along with volume punching. I'm not too impressed by the boxing of the guys I sparred, but the kicks were NICE. I personally was able to get in good jabs, but being out of practice, that was about it. My leg kick defense needs work.

This weekend, I volunteered to give my room off to my host-parents guest. On Saturday, after I was done with Karaoke in Shibuya and attempting to serenade girls with Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", I stayed with friends at Ontakesan and slept in the TV lounge, where everybody got a good view of me drunk and in my boxers.

That night, I went home and roamed around in Shibuya for a little. There were many interesting things, but also somethings that looked rather shady. However, I found the Donkihote there and bought a nice hat and this fancy screen cover for my phone that prevents people from reading my stuff from my shoulder. This idea was given to me by EK, who told me it was an easy excuse to get close to girls when showing them stuff on my phone.

After that, I stayed at my homestay's friend's place in a nearby area called Hachimanyama, the place where all the nice restaurants are at. It was a nice older lady's house and she prepared a room for me. ANd this morning, even woke me up, which gave me so much extra time to get out for class AND eat breakfast, which I normally skip.

Living outside the dorms and homestay was a good experience. It felt like I was really roughing it, but at the same time, not.