A Fresh Start.

What a rollercoaster of a weekend! I really had some great times and some really challenging times too! 

Firstly I got my visa extended, which has made it feel like I get I start all over again.

On Saturday morning I went back to karate after a week break because of my teeth surgery and issues -it was hard, I was still taking painkillers and still have not eaten properly for around a week now. I did my best, I can do better, I will do better soon but If I looked at it as a challenge- you might not be feeling good when you actually have to use it- a lot of the class relied on muscle memory and I think somethings going in!! 

Then onto Japanese lessons- this was a hard one because I woke up on Friday with sore ears that were kinda difficult to hear out of and it was just getting worse, we put it down to swelling from the surgery but now I can't really hear or understand English so Japanese was near on impossible. Then I took some painkillers and drank some coffee and energy gels and we did the dojo bar fashion show. That was fun. We all wore our clothes walked up and down the bar a bit and then had a bit party together.

James tricked me too! 

I come into the kitchen of the bar after the show, just so hungry, at this point a stitch had come out so my mouth felt less spiky. I find this big pot of stew that looked really yummy. So I hunt down James and ask what it is and if I can eat some- he's 'busy' but says yes but ignores the question about what it is. So of I go back to the big mystery pot and take some, looks just like beef, or maybe lamb I'm hungry so don't really care. I eat it, it's good. James appears and just wanders by like 'oh yea, that's my goat stew' 😱 

We invented the Brexit cocktail which was just plain nasty. So, so bad but we got drunk and my head stopped hurting and I feel like it was fun even if I can't remember much. 

Then it's Sunday. I'm still hungry and I need to make pizza. Ever since I had my tooth out and struggling to eat I only wanted a trifle. So I searched Okinawa and there is not one. So I made one. What appears to be the only trifle in Okinawa! Perfect because habu sensei is coming! He is so cool. 

I can't ear much f what is happening, and my dad hurts too much to try and focus on the Japanese but just being there with these guys is enough for me. 

They say you become like the people you spend the most time with, If I spend enough time with the incredible people here maybe one day I can be just like them. 

I'm becoming a hybrid of Okinawa and England with Goya champuru as a main and English trifle as dessert! Ate the most food I've eaten in over a week (it wasn't much but it really helped!) 

I'm a bit deaf so can't hear anything and habu sensei tells me to eat this orange square (kinda touganzuki looking) thing that appeared at the table, can't really say no because everyone's staring at me. So I take a bite, it's fishy and salty and defiantly nothing like touganzuki. It's fish eggs In a block type thing. 

So this weekend I ate goat, and fish eggs and trifle. 

Habu sensei brought us some giant suiika too! I Really like the watermelon from here, so so different to what I've ever eaten in England. Perfect breakfast for tomorrow.