Koga Skatepark and stuff

So, a couple of weeks ago i decided to get my ass together and finally go to Koga skatepark, a place ive known about for a while but cos its kinda far away i havent gone to, untill now, so i got myself out of bed at the super early time of 8:30am (well, early for a GEOS teacher) basically from kurume its like a 1hr train ride to Koga station and then the actual park is not close to the station at all, there is actually a bus u can take, but i thought i would just walk/skate there.....a good 45mins walking/skating in the hot-ass sun (and it was only 10:30am!!!) and my sweaty ass finally found the skatepark, haha, next time i will take the bus, anyways, Koga skatepark is basically like one big massive bowl, not really any street skating parts except the rails on one end. so the main section of the bowl was just this crazy ass Te-Kuiti-esque bowl thingy that i managed to find a few good lines in (i bet theres heaps though, esp if ur actually good and can go over the spine parts) that is about 5-6ft high all round, and then there is the MONSTER big bowl over in one corner, which is maybe somewhere between 8-10ft (it was pretty deep) and it has a decent amount of vert, actually the first time i rolled down and up the wall i kinda misjudged the highness and ended up totally kooking it and falling from the transition straight down to the flat, getting a few nice grazes, i gotta say, getting injured is a good feeling (after the initial pain), i cant explain why, but yeah, kinda just keeps u in check i guess. anyways, so I forgot to mention, when i got there i noticed everyone was wearing helmets, so i asked one of the dudes (in Japanese, yey!) if i needed a helmeted and said yeah, i obvioulsy looked gutted, so he gestured to two "helmets" sitting on the bench, they were not skate helmets but the kind of hard hat things the road worker dudes in japan wear, so i thought fuckit, and strapped in (check the pic!! haha), also, these two dudes turned up and after a little bit they pulled two decent sized PA speakers and a cd player from their car and chucked them on top of the bowl, there was a power plug at the bowl!!!! so they proceeded to play a cd of dancehall and reggae, which was great, there was only about 5 people there the whole time (it was monday) and i ended up befriending one of the dudes and he gave me a ride back to hakata station in his car and told me about some more skateparks near Kurume, they are pretty average, but hey better than nothing, the dude has a website, its in japanese but if you click on "spots" u can see some of the "spots" near fukuoka

also i had taiko practice last week, its starting to get more serious as the festival is in july, im so excited its gonna be sooo fun!! also after Taiko we went out to the countryside to look at Hotaru (fireflys!) which was super cool, like glow worms but flying

p.s. if this sounds like its an email that I sent someone thats cos it is, i copied it stright from an email i sent my brother, haha, what!!??