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So yeah, I just realized it's been at least over a year since I've updated anything here. I have cosplayed five or six characters after that and I've kinda just forgotten to post any photographical evidence of it. I'm sorry if someone's been missing my presence here. I blame both my (only in Finnish for now) cosplay blog and having a tumblr-account. Also life in the forms of University studies (and perhaps dating) have parts of their own. I won't really promise to remember to drag my butt back onto this site any more often, but I will try to have a posting spree so that this place is at least somewhat up to date. So I will probably be sorry

I haven't talked about kendo in a while. It sort of became a routine, one which I did enjoy though. The amount of people in our beginners course ended up being about 9, which to me feels small because ju-jutsu always had like 20 people or something. But then again the other kendo club in our city only had one beginner, poor guy. Last Friday we had our first graduation, of 6. kyu grade. I wasn't too nervous at first, seeing as I have done 3 grading tests in ju-jutsu. Turns out kendo gradings are pretty fast. We went three at a time in front of the judges/senseis and did what they told us to do. It was just pretty basic things. We had totally

So, I've been going to every kendo-lesson like a good kid. Mostly I've really enjoyed it. We've finally gotten to doing other things than monotonically hitting senpai's helmet (though we still do that a lot too). There really is a lot to learn and I'm quite excited to become better. Also I'm apparently doing something right because I have two blisters on top of each other on the sole of my left foot and one on the big toe of my right foot. I feel like I've gotten over ju-jutsu somewhat. At least to the point that I'm not any worse than the rest of the group because of that. I still do have mannerism. Like I can't keep my back straight and sho