now that I'm back

I think to write this post is to accept that I am sitting in GMT in LDN on my ASS.
I was greeted at the airport by the lil brother running towards you at the welcome gate whch you see on the films. It always fills everyone with emotion when you see it but it is the best welcome home you can get. Obviously I have the brother who didnt run, but we know the sentiment is there.

trains are delayed 5 minutes of arriving tubes are broken down, this line is closed, that line is on vacation. In my whole time in Japan I had one late subway train and i think that was due to a suicide. Couldn't be helped. I've generally caught up with the timing but still feel tired I am awake now at 7.30 which used to be my 15:30

usually when you wake up from a dream though you can never get back point is it feels literally like my time in Japan wasa dream I mean it's all memory now, 2 months has passed and I'm back to London and nothing has changed everything is basically in its same place, except for the keys to my bike lock :( The truth is I dn't need Di caprio to jump into my head and recreate this dream.

If i go back to reading from the post i wrote on the day I left, up till now what would I do, if one tink I'll try and document what goes on in the london.

not sayonara more like mata ne

Just to end it, just to finish it off. It's my last few hours in Kyoto, I get picked up at 5.45 am and go to Osaka Airport for 7 30 to fly to UK and I'll arrive on Monday evening. All very clinical all very painful. I am going to be very happy to see people that have been missed but not places. Like I'll keep it brief as I need 4 hours sleep im not looking to miss my pickup.
I loved it more than I imagined, I never got sick of it. I do hate cockroaches and Smoking in public places but I think this is the one for me. I have the N2 Japanese exam which I really want to take in Winter so I'm going to track that process . need to step up my level more and more. I have improved a lot since I've been here. WOuld like to thank those that made the trip a lot more comfortable Kwapeesh and Ryuukyuuchan and my mother and father. School and accomodation and financial balancing in times of need. Erm yeah I start work on 1st of August.I'll get back to ths when I arrive in cooler UK .
SAD

Intruder

He picked the wrong house I just wasn't in the mood it was late I had just come home from my friends house literally around the corner, what are the odds aye??
Basically I have no idea how he got in because the door was locked , there is a garage linked to my house so maybe he worked in his way through some trap door,but either way I don't care. In Japan crime rate is pretty low and people don't usually break into peoples houses, another tick on the Pros list. I'm going to assume that he was intoxicated or on something because he actually thought I didn't notice him and to be honest I didn't at first but the idiot tried to hide like he was a fly or something. The space under the stairs is pretty big I mean i can fit but I would stick out. He wasn't as big as me but (no homo) the idiot looked like he could lift his body weight several times over, i could see ridiculous strength, i think pound for pound he could take me but I was a lot larger and I wasn't in the mood for a long drawn out fight.

i pretended I didn't see him and he bought it (intoxication maybe) I went upstairs to wear I keep my weaponry.
I carefully walked down the stairs like i was going to toilet and just as i got to the bottom of the stairs. I went for him couldn't even walk straight he tried to go for me but i sidestepped and he stumbled then the bloody Cockroach went under the fridge but I'm sure he's dead that spray is effective.I went in with that spray but kept a distance in case he made a last ditch attempt at my life

Yeah cockroach!! I've seen like 2 this week but I hate them. i wish I was raised in Nigeria for a few years so they wouldn't bother me s much but boy I can't live with them. It ain't my fault either this house is old and dark and stuff so don't think I'm a mess because I don't have no cockroaches at home. it's an old wooden house summer thing i guess.

OTOKO NO KO-Mr Black

I'll upload a picture when I get it , yeah I had to take a picture with this dude.
He started speaking to my boy Francis and I thought it was a Nigerian brother just because he had a head shape similar to some of my uncles. But when this dude turned round he was full scale Japanese boy with super tanned skin, like the same colour all over but this colour was brown, like black man brown. Japanese people are not known for the darkness of their skin granted it is summer and people can get dark but this was extreme. I wonder what his parents thought, I wonder what his friends think what girls think and most of all I wonder what he was thinking. Did he wake up one morning and think MTV has made me believe that the next step on my cool list is to become black or at least look it so off to the tanning salon I go.

Did this work? was he now cool? did people cross the street when they saw him? I'll never know unless I see him tonight

I'm sure he must go to the salon like some people go to the gym. In a weird way it was a little bit flattering but i mean like 3% and the the other 97% was weird and hilarious.

This dude gave all the high 5's and man hugs and bought us both drinks , which I must say is very unblack, black people don't buy each other drinks ( is that self hate).Don't get angry it's true I've met people and they've bought me a drink before even knowing my name this has happened on many occasions but none of these occasions has it been a black guy. The only black guys who buy me drinks are my friends, friends that know they'll see me again and I will be buying them a drink later. Fair enough I mean I'm not buying you a drink unless I know you, I don't have that disposable income and you know I'll be giving you that eye contact a hour later like remember that drink i bought you an hour yeah- payback time son. Thirsty throat. I'll probably do that cup to mouth action and hope he doesn't think I'm doing something else

But back to the point , some guys love the dark skin so much that they super tan, Yes I know some people just want to tan as they think tanned skin looks healthier and not because they want to be black, but this is an example of I wanna be like you oooh oooh

I will never mean to generalise a people many people can have different reasons for doing the same thing
so this is Mr Black coolest kid in the block until we came to town.

what I thought about monkeys

I'm going to blame the racist abuse I received from a young age for the ignorance I am about to embrace you with.
I always generally thought that monkeys lived in Africa and that was that, I mean I know I've seen the Jungle book and the King of the swingers is a monkey but I think that being called a black Monkey and being told to go back to the zoo, to climb a tree and the millions of things the NF boys would say made me believe that monkeys were only in Africa. Does that make sense to you, don't care it's my excuse

I know there are places in Japan where monkeys will jump into hot springs with you but I just thought they were imported monkeys ,still to think that monkeys were an inhabitant of Japan didn't really register, until the other day when I was with my friend and they told me that the part of Kyoto they live in sometimes you can see monkeys, like monkey monkeys. I was shocked, i was confused but most of all I was excited. I mean the monkeys were wild and dangerous but I wanted to see Japanese Monkeys. Monkey magic, Monkey power

Turns out there is a little monkey park Arashiyama monkey park in Kyoto so to speak on top of a "mountain" and you can feed them from inside an enclosure costs about 100 yen (one pound ish) for some feed and they ll take the food from out of your hand through a caged fence. I've never fed monkeys before like that ( not to my recollection ) but it was so cool, especially the young ones which still looked cute and not scary, occasionally a monkey would switch on another monkey for some reason but who knows.let the monkeys fight aye ( heard that one before).There was a monkey that would tap the cage to get your attention and then stretch its hands for a nut or an apple or whatever you had. Such a human thing to do. They were fascinating to watch, I want a monkey but just a cute one, like baby size. Can we do this??? make it happen

One scary thing is that , you are told not to look at the monkeys in the eye. I had images in my head of a monkey having an Are you looking at me moment? I did not want to have a hungry monkey on my hands-I did not look any monkeys in the eye. these things no taller than my knee had me looking at the floor like I had been given a dirty African slap.

On leaving the monkeys started going ape (haha) and one jumped out of a tree right next to me. I got a little scared but maintained my composure ,remember everyone thinks I'm cool and I want that to remain that way

OTOKO NO KO - The Architect

Just going to make a note on a couple of the Japanese dudes as in males that we've come across during the week.
We have Mr Speech. Mr Black? and Mr You're SO cool.

Mr Speech could be the most interesting. After last weeks international party on the hottest day and night so far, we went to Mc D's to get a meal and oddly enough there was a grey man dressed in business attire ( grey i mean Grey hair but it was white as far as I remember) Oddly enough this guy was in business attire and he strangely looked like the japanese version of the KFC colonel. This was odd because what was the colonel doing in Mc D's. I half expected Japanese Ronald to come and sort him out.
Anyway this guy I should have named him the architect (matrix) because after letting myself and Francis know he could speak English he then basically word for word as far as I know reeled of the Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg address, Four score and seven years ago... yeah that's all i know. It was pretty impressive but unnecessary. After he finished and we expressed our shock and surprise he then decided to start another speech,-my heart sank. Luckily Francis received a phone call from a friend we had to meet outside so we were ale to escape form the the architect colonel well actually Francis pulled off the best acting skills i have seen in a while he had me convinced that we were leaving Mcdonalds to meet a friend outside who we were meant to meet up with, It was too well executed, there was a full range of emotion and dialogue in the imaginary phonecall that he received.

So this is an example of the I want to practice my English with you person, i don't mind too much because that's me in London, pouncing on Japanese tourists

air vent

Literally running into my last week in Japan, tomorrow will be my last full Monday. SO I tried to fill in the week as much as possible, learning how to make okonomiyaki to just hanging out by Kamogawa and meeting some friends.
I haven't updated in a while and been awfully busy. I hadn't spoken to my brothers for a while but managed to get through to them yesterday which was cool. Just found out Haye lost to Kinchko which sucksbut im so glad I did not stay up for it.

I don't think I can do anything until September when I come back as I will be broke like a joke for a while so (shrugs) but I definitly want to spend a lot more time inside with my nearest and dearest ( i don't use these rhyming phrases much usually)

I'm not actually in a fun mood today, I mentioned dreams on my status a few days ago and the one I had last night has jus affected my mood, I have to turn that around asap. There is no time to waste and not because its my last week but because you never know when it's your last week (period). I think you have those moments of realisation and this is one of them. I almost wanted to shout out a really crafty facebook status to maybe vent to release how I feel but that gives everyone I know a glimpse into what's going on Inside. I reserve that for this blog and personal conversations of which I have way too few. Through this blog I realise I do have a lot to say but I sometimes struggle when it comes to deliver expressive peaces of information verbally, so at the most point the only time I say something will be in the form of a witty one liner to get a few laughs. Which is cool- but I never really express, I don't get that angry I don't lose my temper often and even if i do it's not expressed often well.
I feel better just with that, but I still need todo something physical, macho up some push ups or run kamogawa again.