Seiritsu International Education

Ryosuke scanning for his name in a pro-soccer magazine... a few years early!

Hello everyone. Hope everything is going well. Recently we��ve had our summer holidays and boy was it hot! Here in Japan everyone trains and studies real hard even during the holidays! (not something I��m used to). People who do club sports have training nearly everyday, and the other people have extra lessons at school. Summer here is pretty much the same as normal school days.

I��ve just survived two weeks of double training under the hot scorching heat of a 40 degree sun. As obvious as it sounds, double training is when we have two, 2-3 hour trainings in one day. The first training started at 8:30am and the next started from 12:30pm. This was an unforgettable experience for me as back in New Zealand we would never have trained for 3 hours, let alone twice in one day! Although this was both physically and mentally exhausting, I know that it was worth all the hard work as I believe that this is why the Japanese are so fit and can concentrate for so long both on and off the pitch.

I��m finally getting used to the lifestyle here and I��m sure I will not regret the hard work of this summer.

Ryosuke