I screwed up pretty badly over my drone. I had heard they were going to change the laws in Japan so that you had to register your drone, which I was OK with, but I didn’t realise that unregistered drones under 250g would in fact become illegal until it was too late. So, I now …

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Don’t celebrate your success prematurely, basically.

I have an aversion to aspects of Japanese culture that just aren’t a thing in NZ. This is something I have to get over, as it’s part of living here and I always find myself procrastinating on these aspects and having to deal with them at an inopportune time.

The Buddha says life is suffering. Uketamo is a powerful way of dealing with suffering. Although hard, I have found this to be the case in my own life. I have found that the sooner I am able to accept things for what they are, the sooner I am able to get over them, and …

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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.