So, I know its been a while again, but I haven't really had an internet connection for the past month or the time to sit down and actually write up a blog for your eyes only. But that's all going to change now, as I now have internet at my fingertips.

 Not really sure where I should start, I was in Ryogoku, Tokyo for the whole of August and things were pretty standard, the first couple of weeks however were incredible, firstly hanging out with the guys from CSM, youness, bandi, shotaro, haruna etc was top jokes and was really nice having people living in the apartment with me. Still think its funny that you make friends with people in another country even though they live round the corner from you back home. Top jokes had all round though and to top it off in the second week of August Joely shows up (in her big granny shorts). And of course just like old times, where did we go, yup Gas Panic! The classiest of all classy night clubs, filled with terrible music, perverted gaijin and guys that really can't dance. His legs did move incredibly fast though, this guy basically did this step over move over and over again and was like all in my face like "lets have a dance off" so I did the classic hands in front of the chest, lips pouting and pivetted... I think I won the battle!

It was a good week, being quite touristy and just chilling out, with a base was quite a nice change from the troubles of travelling. (not that I had any trouble, in fact quite the opposite) We also all went down to Kamakura and had a wicked day on the beach, it was like a massive international beach party consisting of Japanese, English, French, Italian, Swedish/Morrocon, Korean and a surfing dog (there's pictures floating around facebook somewhere) yes, I am yet to of bought a camera so I have nothing to put up here. Finally everyone started to leave for London and I was left on my own in that massive flat, which basically sucked as I had not much to do, no internet and not exactly the heaviest wallet to go out with.

It was then that I got a wonderful phone call from Doping Panda's manager, asking if I was still interested in doing some work for Sony as the vice president of SMA wanted to call me and talk about it, obviously I had to think long and hard about this for about 10 seconds and a couple of days later I went in for an interview, I was given the task of translating a couple of band profiles as a sort of trial run, I think I did good because I was invited back to talk about wages and what I'd be doing from there. So over the past couple of weeks I've been doing the odd translation, its actually not that much but takes quite a while. I also am doing live reviews, and went to my first one last week, a band called PUFFY, who on CD are not very good but live are pretty amazing, the review is actually taking me a long time as i have to write 1200 words, so I'm like "what the..." they only did a 5 song set, not exactly Beyonce at Summer Sonic. But I'm working on slowly and should be done soon, got till Wednesday to finish it, and when it is done I'll stick it up here for your parousel...

On to more exciting times and the start of university and its ups and well ups. Many of you may have heard that the dormitory that I was going to be staying in, sucked! I did moan about it an awful lot. 10 o'clock curfew, no friends allowed past 10, no showers after 10, no common room after 10 basically no life after 10. Oh and no firearms?! But it turns out most of that is just for show, there is no curfew, anytime is fine, the common room doesn't shit and I can have a shower too. The staying over of friends is a tricky one though, its still not allowed but the "psuedo parents" don't exactly check your rooms and they are never around in the dorms, I heard from someone else that as long as someone doesn't move in with you and stay for lengthy periods of time its pretty much ok for someone to stay... The Josh is back to life WHAAAAAAAT!? 

Its a pretty strange place though, there's people from all over the world staying here, and everyone seems pretty safe, but you know how these things work first couple of weeks everyone is just feeling each other out and then things will settle, we shall see how things pan out. A few amusing people as well, one guy is like literally the most stereotypical american farmer, he walks around with that wheat grass thing in his mouth, I'm like "uh, dude this is Tokyo not the 1800s" I haven't done very well at learning people names either, in this past week I've met 30 foreign students plus the meigaku buddies. ah yes the coverted buddy system, TOP JOKES! basically each international student get 2 or 3 "buddies" basically people to look after you and help you settle in, its a really good system in theory but when there's almost 100 people walking from the dorms to the university and all around tokyo getting train passes etc it gets a little ridiculous, I cleverly slipped out the back and did everything by myself today, was much easier and slightly less embarrassing, but then I guess its not really in the spirit of things. But again as time goes on it will be a lot easier to work this buddy system out, at least my buddies only speak to me in Japanese so I got no problem with that.

Had my first day at uni today, a placement test which was... fun? After the test we had this oral interview type thing, and I'm sitting their chatting away to the teacher, when she whips out my kanji test, which of course was blank and was like "what are we gonna do with you, your japanese speaking is at an advance level but you are basically a beginner at writing" tis going to be amusing how they work things out with me, hopefully I'll sit in the lower class and start from scratch and use my time with friends to improve speaking and listening or something along those lines.

I think that's pretty much it for today, I know its long but now I got internet things will go a bit smoother and I'll try and do weekly updates with what I've been up to.

 Much love and all that jazz

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