I knew the forecast was for rain, but what a deluge we got. It didn't let up all day, making it difficult for family fun. While I went to my language lesson Nick took Emily round to the jidokan at the end of our road. We had a different teacher - quite strict - and I came away aware of my limitations in spoken Japanese. It's all very well having some grammar but you have to be able to converse with it. Hopefully the thrust of future classes will be towards more dialogue. I feel pressured when I have to talk in class but it is the only way to consolidate what I've learned.
After lunch we took Emily to the jidokan in Hamamatsucho. The rain had put people off venturing out and we were the only ones playing there. Emily spent time in the ball pit and liked pushing Mickey Mouse around in a doll's buggy. She loved a photo book about Japanese bullet trains.
It was Nick's turn for an evening out: an MBA get-together meal, but he was fretting because he didn't have many business cards to hand out as he'd left the majority at work. Not the best preparation for a networking event! I spent the evening hunched over the PC and catching up with the ironing (Erna, hurry up and come back!).
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