Having my T-shirt signed by Masa, the lead singer in Teru's band

The islanders ROCKIN' it in our jump suits

What a crazy weekend! On Friday night the three islanders were reunited and boy did we hit mainland Okinawa in style! We threw caution to the wind and bought retro adidas jump suits; I wore the red, Brett the blue and Andy the yellow one, complete with colour coordinated head bands. They cost a silly amount of money but they were utterly worth it. After making our purchases we heading up to Ginowan with Nick my predecessor to see my friend Teru’s band play. Teru is from Izena, he’s the chap with the long bleached ‘blonde’ hair you may have seen in previous pictures. The band is called Tetsukabuko and are an Okinawan Metal band. Anyway so we rock up to this Japanese metal concert in our outlandish gear, quite in contrast to the black and denim worn by everyone else! It was a tiny venue, can’t have been more than 50 people and the band was wicked (I bought their cd the very next day). After wards we had the band members and general people from the audience write stuff on the white t-shirts we were wearing. We then went to an Izekai with all the band members, it turned out although they are very Metal on stage and definitely looked the part they were in fact all the nicest, sweetest guys. Much fun was had, and Jasmine and Chris turned up for a bit as well. I think we left the Izekai at 3am but then hung around outside chatting until 5am. We then headed to Naha and swung by Paul and Mikes. A bar run by two Canadians and often frequented by ALTs and other gaijin. I met somebody else who was born in Zimbabwe there which was cool. We chatted for ages with Paul and some other dude behind the bar and got given a bunch of free shots, good times. Then we went and got curry at a 24hr curry house near to our izekai before heading back to the izekai at about 7am. Unfortunately Andy had to fly back to his island on Saturday because he had his school sports day on Sunday. So sadly bereft of a member of our trio, I and Brett headed north to Bens party with Teru. Bens party was awesome and again I only had a couple of hours sleep but it was worth it for sure. On Sunday after fun on the beach with the other ALTs and a crazy Japanese dude I accompanied Elina and Kelly on a wee road trip upto point Hedo, the northernmost point of the main island of Okinawa. It was super pretty, cool rocks and the clearest ocean I have ever seen. I made it back to my island with Teru and after having some soba in the cashinoshima we headed our separate ways to sleep mostly! I slept at least 11 hours!