OH GOD WHY DID I START THIS: So........

HMMMMMMM....... Sooooo.......Okay now I've got it.................Captains log starda....wait a minute.........okay lets try this...... HI I'm new to this as you can see, blogging was never really my thing, though I thought since I'm in Japan now I should start something. It was between this or doing a vlog but this seemed more natural than talking to a camera, I think....

yeah this is me here ...........................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

But yeah enough of my nattering. I've now arrived and have been living in Japan for 20 or so days slowly getting use to the climate, the surroundings, the people and Japan on the whole. Living here so far definitely burned a hole in my pockets ... Ah money. Sweet money.

Why do you leave me so...... but yeah currently I'm staying in Fukuoka, a city and a prefecture based in the island of Kyushu which is in the South of Japan. Weather here currently is good nice and warm, but believe me when I say the weather here was uninhabitable for most people and especially a British person i.e. me, who revels in our miserable weather back home, just a few days before I posted the weather had reached up to that of 35-37 degrees Celcius with a humidity rating of around 80%. Don't understand, right...Imagine this, you're walking at a normal pace for ....erm lets say around 5-10 minutes, then you realise you are soaking wet, sweating so much it would seem as though some one thrown a bucket of salt water over you.
NOT PLEASANT NOT PLEASANT AT ALL.
But THANK GOD for vending machines being 5 minutes away WHERE EVER you are. Ah good old vending machines just here so you can replenish the bodily fluids you sweated out YAY now you can SWEAT more.

Enough of this blabbering about the weather as we do so yeah Japan has been fun so far even with the blistering heat for the first 2 weeks I was here. One thing I did not anticipate in Japan though was the amount of paperwork and how by the book everything has to be done, especially with mobile phones. I think getting a mobile here has been of of the less appealing things about Japan. Just to open a cheap contract entails you waiting for the staff to describe every single detail on the terms and condition and every line of small print on the contract thoroughly, before anything can be sign/ filled out. After that the wait for the phones is also ridiculous, this wait is for them to contact the ward office to find out if you are a legit alien in their country and worthy of obtaining a phone.....all hail the mobile phone.....So all in all the wait was about 3 hours and that's just to get a cheap contract phone i can imagine to get the newest, flashiest phone in the Japanese Telecom/electronics market would take you a day in the store..... or on the contrary maybe it would take you ten minutes as it is so expense.

Okay now I really am blabbering so cutting to the chase I have done other things since arriving and here's a short list with so PWETTY Photos I have done here so far are:

went to a matsuri (Japanese festival);