Hai konbanwa.

My 6th day in the land of the rising sun is coming to an end. The past few days I’ve been to Sado, an island 2-3 hours away by boat from Niigata, where I’ve done a bunch of sightseeing, eaten humongously good food, seen incrediblyous (have you adapted this word yet?) nature and actually talked to/with Japanese people with the strongly limited Nihongian vocabulary that I yield. Every night has been a feast with full Japanese dinner with too much to drink and eat.

Currently I’m back in Niigata, staying at a very tall-standing building with a room on the 28th floor that holds a view over the entire city. Really marvellous. Early this morning we woke up in the temple, fake-prayed, took the lying-sitting boat from Sado to here, and ate ramen.

My mother also played a concert at the top-most floor (31st) together with a pianist and then we had another feast with the entire audience. I would have provided more pictures, but the connection speed here isn’t the greatest, so Flickr is quite slow. But do check up on it once in a while.