The Netherlands, oh, we've been talking so much about, I say we, like me and a couple of individuals at Coffee Stain because we are very multicultural, multinational at Coffee Stain.

Plenty of people from the Netherlands, India, Mexico, Germany, France, everything.

talking lately about I personally I'm not much of a traveler I don't really have any like interest in traveling the world for the sake of it if you asked me today to now I get 10 tickets for 10 years in a row for free one summer a year for 10 years I have to book those tickets right now what do I pick I'll just go 10 Japan trips

In terms of traveling is just where my interest lies But if it was to be to the Netherlands or to France or to Mexico or India With the people from here where they could actually show me around or just you know vibe with me and Be a bit happy to be in their home countries.

I'd happily sacrifice more than one Japan trip a year for that

It's only once a year.

Maybe twice soon, but hey.

Yes, next week in experimental rain is coming So look forward to that It is very sunny right now, loving the game, nice Japan is incredibly beautiful, I was there last April, I envy you It is, it is

Right back on the grind as well.

I was there last...

I guess this is like as good as... Oh yeah, because Focus is set to be at this distance.

I went there last September.

I was very happy with how my confidence to speak and mostly vocab in speaking hadn't dwindled despite not having lived there for 10 years at that point.

But my reading comprehension...

It was fine.

It was fine, definitely fine enough for traveling, but it was absolutely not where I remember it should be when I lived there.

So we're back on the kanji grind to make sure that I can read as much as possible next time.

Because, spoilers, I'm going back to Japan in September this year too, in half a year.

I'll be sick.

So I have a deadline, and an actual, um, an actual mentor?

Friend?

Friender?

Friender?

Who is, um, running me through, uh, the kanji grind.

My ex, actually.

Um, still one of my best friends.

Love her to pieces.

And she's making sure that no kanji gets skipped.

So that I can feel as fluent in Japan as I did back then.