October was a pretty random month which consisted of a whole bunch of totally different things. There were a couple of birthday part-ays (my good friends Suzie and Matt), I helped my friend Deyi move house (very interesting experience!) and I also went to a bunch of festivals. The most interesting of these was the Hiroshima Sake festival held in Saijou, where sake from all over Japan is collected together in one place for a night of mayhem. I'm not a big fan of sake, but it was a good night with lots of laughs. I met a couple of great people from Germany who were just travelling around Japan, too, and we went out in Hiroshima after the festival. It was Fun, with a capital F!

I also took the opportunity to explore Hiroshima a bit more too, as it's one of my favourite places in Japan. One of the other assistants I met at Tokyo Orientation last year lives in Hiroshima, so I arranged to meet up with her for an afternoon as well. We had a lovely time visiting the beautiful garden in Hiroshima and wandering around the cafes and shops in the CBD.

Other than that, I played some judo at school, attended a frisbee tournament in Akashi and made a very genki new friend, Yuko, and partied hard at the Himeji Hallow'een Party. So very random, yes, but overall a good month.