The real Japanese test
If you want a real Japanese test, do what I did over the weekend; a three-day mountain first aid course entirely in Japanese.
If you want a real Japanese test, do what I did over the weekend; a three-day mountain first aid course entirely in Japanese.
I was thinking about how I had never articulated this before, but the low lying mountains in Japan and the high mountains historically have had very different meanings, well from what I have noticed at least.
It’s easy to feel a bit down if right before you start your hike, it starts to rain.
For whatever reason, if someone is indecisive, often the best thing you can do is pose questions.
If you’re confused as to where to start, ie you have a whole lot of ideas but aren’t sure what you should do first, try starting with something with easy to set goals.
I can drink and blame the world, or I can do something extraordinary. -Saia Latu.
There’s so many things you learn during the process, that you can never learn before you start. It’s weird. It’s like if you have a project in mind you know what you’re going to learn, or you have something in mind that you’d like to learn, but until you actually try it, you realise you …
Uketamo is acceptance. Uketamo is living in the now. Uketamo is saying the past is the past, the future is the future, and neither exist. Uketamo is living in the now, of being in the moment, and accepting things as is.
Mountains in Japan have a very different meaning to that of New Zealand.