Alrighty then lets give this a go. My name is Simon, I am 24 and I have just started to live in Japan with my girlfriend Reiko. I can speak French and German and I`m hoping to learn some Japanese here and teach some English in order to pay for it.

So, Monday 21st June I left my landlord`s house to get a coach to Heathrow to get a plane to Frankfurt to change there to Osaka Japan. A total of too bloody long travelling. We landed at 8 local time which is 8 hours ahead of GMT absoluteley knackered. Unfortunately as it was eight in the morning Tuesday it was just the start of the day and due to events planned by Reiko`s parents, I wouldn`t be able to get to sleep until 2 at night local time.

It was 23 degrees at eight in the morning and only got hotter during the day. I`ve been bitten by loads of mosquitos as well. At night it sounds like I have tinnitus as the insects grasshoppers and mosquitos make their noise sssssssssssssssss like tv static all night.

The first thing we did after getting back to the house was to go to an onsen which is a public bath where it`s split into male and female areas and everyone gets naked and goes into different sorts of baths,showers and saunas. I`m English so this is quite tricky and besides the multitudes of naked old Japanese men and the fact that I`m the only western bloke in there made it even more unnerving. Reiko`s family love these though and they are really relaxing. Oh naked old men.

We had a meal at a Japanese-Italian fusion restaurant that evening which was lovely. Then we went home and drunk some oolon-hai (i think it`s spelled like that) which is Japanese spirit with tea drunk with ice. I was a bit drunk.