I remember arriving in Italy some 4 years ago. I must have looked like a Christmas tree, with a big green suitcase on wheels, a 35 liter backpack which was quasi only containing my keikogi, a laptop bag, clarinet and a black wooden weapons bag containing a bamboo jo, a bokken and a tanto.
Quite unusual for an exchange student, I asked Beatrice Testini sensei, the dojocho of Katsura dojo in Padua if I could join while I am studying in Italy.
I went home the next summer after a wonderful year full of aikido. In my home town, Budapest, I found the ShinBuKan dojo.
This autumn I left again, but safe in the knowledge I have a dojo to return to. Also this time I took a 'part' of my dojo with me. So again looking like a Christmas tree, we arrived in Belgium with 2 suitcases, 2 backpacks, 2 clarinets, 2 wooden weapon bags and my iaito, Cseresznyemorc (literally, Dour Cherry, but that is a story for later).
We tried to convince the people in our dojo to write a practice blog, but they insisted it is us who should record practicing budo this way.
The main blog is in Hungarian and you can reach it here: http://dojovandorok.blogspot.hu/, but we will try our best to keep up writing in English, too.
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