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HI BLOG! I haven’t written in a long time and thus only remember half of what happened. Therefore, I went through my pictures and shall now present you one photo for each occasion. Here goes:
Snow.
Setsubun is where people go to the shrine for a ceremony that is held within and that can't be seen by public. We waited outside until all the people in neat clothing came out and threw beans at the crowd. Doraemon was there, too. People then grab as many of those beans they can, go home and throw them out of windows and doors to drive off evil demons and invite good luck.
Of course, many a sushi were had. Mhh sushi.
The ryuugakuseika gave out free tickets for some sort of Asian Cup or whatever football matches. I went to the women's finals (China vs. S. Korea) with my tutor Shin, and we routed for China - and they won. There were about 300 spectators in that huge stadium.. which nearly TRIPLED!!! when the men's finals were held between the same countries. China won 3-0, even though I was routing for Korea. Boo. I was supposed to meet up with my friends from the dorm for this game, but they all bailed and left me watching alone in the cold rain. Shame on you.
In Japan, on Valentine's Day girls give boys chocolate etc. and not the other way around. And so, the managers of the TUFS baseball team made the players cookies for V-Day. They're still hanging from my lamp to remind me how good it felt to belong to a team - can't bring myself to eat them.
Apart from all this sort of stuff happening, I was mainly caught up in Japanese class related work and going to baseball practice. Theoretically, we have on average about 4/5 times practice a week now. My body is slowly catching up with training demands, although ye ol’ knee injury frequently keeps me from performing at my best.
Coming Sunday my parents will come to visit me for 3 weeks, out of which 2 weeks we will spend together traveling in the Kansai area. Maybe I’ll find the time then to do some more blogging. During the time I spend with my parents I obviously cannot participate in training and practice games we have against other universities. I’m a bit relieved, to be honest, that I don’t have to go to the practice games, because I feel nervous enough as it is now having to speak and understand Japanese during training with my club mates. Even so, it’s not like I’d be in the starting lineup for a game at my skill level, so cheering on is all I’d have to do.
25.02.2010 09:10 
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