Sooooo 3 months have officially passed since I arrived in Japan, I can't believe the time is going so fast! Everything has been amazing so far, and now that stuff has settled down with work and what not I can finally update you all with lots of pics. ^^

Ok, so I visited the Gataket in May, a wonderful comic market similar to the famous Comiket in Tokyo (which I'm going to in August!!!!). The Gataket boasts maybe several hundred artists and circles and loads of Cosplayers turned out in force as well. They were all so friendly and nice, and were amazed to see a foreigner wandering about taking pictures...some even came up to shake my hand. Too cute!!
See how many characters you can recognise...

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As it was my birthday last week I got to go out for a lovely meal and dress up in a gorgeous silk kimono and yukata too!! I was sooo happy!! It was amazing, but the kimono are very tight and restrictive...like a corset. You can't breathe out in them fully...o_O

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In Shibata there is a beautiful Iris Festival around this time, soooo many different types of flowers bloom here and they are all soooo gorgeous. I had such fun strolling through the fields of flowers taking pictures, even though the temperature is now 31 degrees and very humid (argh, it's hot and sweaty!!)
Really really beautiful flowers, if you ever get the chance to see this kind of thing I would recommend going...

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The same day I also got the chance to see a Japanese wedding! The bride had unfortunately changed out of her wedding kimono but she was wearing a lovelt western style gown instead and some of her guests had on the most gorgeous kimonos as well.
The gardens where they had the wedding were beautiful too.

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Also I went to a Cultural Museum to see how old Japanese style houses looked. It was really interesting and the difference between the rich and the poor was quite astonishing. The gardens in this place were designed by people who designed the gardens in Kyoto, so they were very beautiful and sooo incredibly peaceful...it was lovely just to sit there and listen to the sound of the water and the birds...

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Well that's about it for now...hopefully you enjoyed the pictures and I'll keep snapping away for more updates in the future.

Take care!