Hello All,   Today was a tough day, judo wise.    We woke up around 7:00 am this morning and then left for practice at 9:00am. We got to the Kodokan and there were a ton of girls. Practice was in the main hall today because there were so many girls. For the morning session we did 8-4min rounds […]

New Year’s celebration with the girl’s from Nichidai Hello All,   Here’s another update on what’s going on for the past couple of days.   SUNDAY   On Sunday, we were scheduled to go back to the Kodokan for day 3 of the camp, but our bodies were too tired to make it to the […]

It’s about 10:30 pm on January 15, 2008.    Here’s an update on how today went.  We slowly got up this morning.  Michael came over in time to accompany us to the grocery store.  We bought more vegetables and healthy foods… and LOTS of water.  After the grocery store we came back to the apartment and […]

Hello again! It’s about 8:14 PM right now and I’m standing on the balcony trying to type REALLY fast before I lose the signal again. We just got back about 40 mintues ago from practice at the Kodokan. We had an adventure trying to get home. Practice was good. There were a lot more girls […]

(Editor’s Note: On Monday, January 8, Sayaka, Ann and Molly left for Tokyo, Japan to spend the next two weeks training at Nihon University. (Nichidai) Nihon University is the home of Sensei Jun Konno – a long-time friend of EBJI, who spent a year here in 2000 studying English. Attached is an update from one of our competitors, Ann […]