Today started with a 10.30 meeting at Kachidoki, with the decision makers. These are the people we should have seen on Wednesday, but better late than never. We started to understand their mindset, and it was very negative. They are convinced that they are doing us a favour by letting us put our system in their stadium, so we have to wait until they are ready to use it. At the end of the meeting, we agreed to start the trial from now, so as long as they are willing to give it a serious go, we were happy to go on. But Mikiko was quite upset with a lot of what they were saying, and it was very frustrating for both of us.

I went back to the hotel to work, while Mikiko went to another meeting. After that, she brought one of the owners of Kashiwa to the hotel, so I got to meet with him. He is very positive with things, and is happy with the support he is getting.

After a bit of a break, Mikiko and I went to Shinagawa station, and met up with Occhi – the blind soccer person we met with in November. We went to a local restaurant and had another great feast of food and beer. Then we moved to another place, where we ate more great food, and Occhi and I got on the Saki. It was another fantastic night out, and definately needed after the week we had had!