Warning: This is another ‘Mike doesn’t want to leave Japan and thinks writing blog posts will make it all better’ post. The title is also an attempt to sound even more menacing than this entry, although I don’t think it’s going to be quite as useful to the prosecution when they prove my insanity in court.

At any rate, I have now fully moved out of my dormitory in Nishi-Kawaguchi. It was a pretty draining experience. Last night after being roundly destroyed at poker for the final time, I joined most of the exchangers in a trip to the park at night, where we feasted on beer whilst mosquitos feasted on us.

Then today I spent the day moving, and also cleaning my room as best I could so as to get the full deposit back. (Also I guess for the benefit of whoever lives there next) It was not very much fun, by the end of the process I smelt like a delicious mix of sweat and bleach. So that’s Bleat. Or Sweach. Take your choice. Both will kill you.

Then it was time to move all my junk to my friend’s apartment. I say friend’s apartment, it’s actually the flat the volunteers for Junten school live in. That’s right, for the next four days I’m staying in the flat I first moved into almost four years ago, in 2006. I’m sitting in the same room now. Nothing has changed except I’m older. Depressing or what?!

On the 5th, I move to Chiba to stay with Leon and Saori, who climbed Fuji with us. It’s a very different place to Tokyo, so I will take lots of lovely photos and write some blog posts. They also have super cute dogs, so expect a Youtube video called ‘Chiba Inu sneezing! SO CUTE!’ with 500,000 views to appear in the next week or so.

To wrap up, here’s one of my favourite photos from Nishi-Kawaguchi. I posted this on Twitter and Flickr, but I can’t remember if I ever posted it here or not. It’s the view that meets you as you walk towards the dormitory I lived in. It wasn’t always this pretty, but it was a nice little stroll. Except when you were tired or drunk, and it was hot or raining. Then it was terrible.

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