I realise the blogs have slowed down but I'm not doing as much sightseeing as I did at the beginning. I'm now settled in the house and regularly spend time with the house mates. There have been a couple of blog worthy events on which I was waiting on photos. Sunday morning at 6:30 I hear a knock at my door and Jareks voice. I don't function well at that time of the morning so I took a while to respond. Today was also Sunday and feel I had a right to a lay in. ...

I woke at 6 on Friday morning with a skull splitting headache and the taste of the damn inferno drink on my lips. All I wanted was sleep but it was impossible when I felt like this. I snuck around the house looking for the paracetomol l I new the girls kept in the bathroom but couldn't find it so I spent 30 minutes soaking my head under the shower and went back to bed still in pain. At 12 after a very uncomfortable few hours sleep i was woken up by Kiyo knocking ...

It' been a week now since I moved into my Japanese house. The house is traditional wood house and all there rooms have sliding doors and even though the are 10 people living here there is only one bathroom. I arrived on a Sunday at around midday. I was moving into the smallest room in the house and that room current resident to a Japanese girl call Aika who would be moving into one of the other larger rooms. At this point Aika was still asleep so I sat in the ...

Today being the big kid that I am…I went to the zoo. The other day on my trek through Osaka I came across spa world and noticed on my map that it was near Osaka zoo, so I made it a mission to go there. It was a really sunny day and I had to wear a hat so I could see without squinting. I got the train to Tennoji station and arrived there at about 11. The zoo itself is enclosed in a park which is quite large and I hoped I was on the right side of it for the zoo...

Today I went to the grand shrine in Nagai. One of the people I had met at the hostel had told me about the place and I knew roughly where it was and had marked it on my map.Nagai is at the other end of Osaka to the hostel and I had no plans to walk the distance so I grabbed a train. The station I needed is opposite Nagai park and before I went on to the shrine I decided to take a look. The park its self is pretty huge and although I only wandered a small part o...