I finally got through the week - just! I was really tired by Friday, much more than usual. I think it must have been all the judo. I had a really good training session on Wednesday night against my two teachers, a san-nensei student (who has now retired) and his replacement, an absolutely enormous 2nd year student. He's so big (maybe 100kg?) that I can't even throw him - I literally bounce off. So that took a lot of energy and I was sweating like crazy by the end of it. It was a great work out though, trying to push and pull him around. I ended up using some Wing Chun, which finally, and somewhat to his surprise, got him moving a little ;) Muahaha. I paid the price though - I'm still sore today!

School was good this week too, and has been in general recently. Most classes are quite good, although the ichi-nensei have settled in and gotten used to the school now, so they've become quite rowdy. The ichi-nensei teachers are quite soft on them, I think, compared to say Okamoto-sensei and Aso-sensei, which is a bit unfortunate. I have a very mild temperament and don't like conflict or getting angry, but it does piss me off when they don't listen to me when I'm talking. Especially since I try to minimise the talking and maximise the activities. I'll have to work on that. Thankfully my ni-nensei classes are really well behaved (kinda surprising, given that ni-nensei was quite rowdy last year, especially class 6) and Toda-sensei's class in particular are just wonderful to teach for. They leap out of their seats to volunteer, are quiet and listen when I'm speaking, are good at English, try hard and are just generally well behaved. I really couldn't wish for anything more in a class!