As a first year PhDs, and following the recommendation of our elders we decided to go to a summer school (ss). The deadline for other summer schools in the Europe was already passed and the first one was the machine learning summer school (MLSS) in Japan. We were lucky enough to get accepted for poster presentation and we were granted a part of our travel expenses by the MLSS. The speakers were very well known in the field of statistical pattern recognition and machine learning and they delivered well. There were about 400 attendants from all over the world e.g. Argentina, Peru, US, Brazil, Belgium, Iran, Igor from Russia and our neighbour universities such as UCL, university of Cambridge.