Well, my trip to Japan is almost over. I know I am going to miss it, but I dont know quite what yet. I am sure it will become more apperant once I get home.

I am also going to continue to update this webpage with more information once I get to look at all the pictures I have taken. I have 19 roles to develop so that should job a few more memories of this trip :).

 
I finished with Karate yesterday. I have to say that Aikido was much more interesting. Mostly because you could do more hands on things with Aikido than you could with Karate. Most of Karate felt like I was punching/kicking air in a silly manner. We did watch a video for one class period though, and that was interesting. All sorts of wacky things were in it, like people breaking stuff, and this one guy jumping over a car driving at him.

Oh yeah, My Dad would always tell me that when traveling the local people would always be impressed if you try to use their language first. I think this is easier to see in Europe than Japan(A lot more variety in languages). But through talking to people from a variety of Asian countries they are generally impressed if you know where their country is on the globe, and a little of its history. Not sure if this is just low standards set for Americans though...