Brent: “Esther… why is there a japanese child running around your house?”
Esther: “………Souvenir.”
June 2011
After a horrendous, emotionally draining day, tonight hasn’t been so bad. Well, from 10PM onwards it hasn’t been so bad.
Thank you Esther, thank you so much for talking about Japan with me, and cheering me up. ^__________^
ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU!
ありがとうございます!
ARIGATOU BURENTO-KUN ;______; <33333333333333333333
WE SHALL TALK ABOUT IT AGAIN. AND IT SHALL BE AN EMOTIONAL JOURNEY (for me XD).
ブレントの友人に感謝! (LOOOL google translate that XD)
Sometimes Japan can be so cute I just want to throw my laptop against the wall.
Ehhh I have so much kendo debt. Still owe $55 for part of uniform and about 4 months of lessons…
AHHH GOMEN NASAI ;____________;
NEED TO VISIT.
Hmm… I’m still hungry. Should I eat more shepherd’s pie or nom on cookies.. >_>
It’s because I put in a can of crushed tomatoes.

Tonight was so good!
We had to practice cuts and I did a men cut and Sensei was like “Esther! Very good!”
;______; <3
And then when we were doing kote, he watched me and then gave me a thumbs up and said “No problems!”
;_______________________; <33
And then Eric, who was sitting out, said something like “Esther your stamps are really good. I can feel them from over here. STAMP STAMP STAMP”.
;___________________________________________________; <333
AND THEN. Afterwards, at the meeting, Sensei looks at me and Alex and says “Esther’s kendo is beautiful. Very good technique”
……………………………………………………………………………….
SDJKFHSJKDFHNICJASDVFBVHSDF
SO HAPPYYYYY ;A;
Alex said that when they say it’s beautiful, it means it’s like excellent grading style. asdjkfhskfjhasf
Ehh but then he said something like (in his cute broken english) “Esther, your emotion keep you from hitting. Is difficult to get mental state.” SO CUTE XD hahaha but yes. I keep flinching and not taking advantage of openings. GAH. But he said my techniques were beautiful ;A; AWESOME <3
And then afterwards, he’s like “Ahh Esther, would you…” and gives me an unopened small thing of milk XD Haha sooo cute! (He’d ordered a cup of tea and got one too many milks).
KENDO IS AWESOME.

Nomming on cereal before kendo.