Casmo hits Japan

Baseball, Baseball, UNI, ..Baseball.

After my parents left for Germany, baseball has taken up pretty much all of my time. While classes still hadn’t started, we practiced almost every day. A couple of weeks ago, the Spring League started. From start to finish we have at least 1 game a week, every 3 weeks or so we have 2. The place the games are played is about 2.5 hours away from where I live and it costs me about 3000 yen every time I go. That aside, the whole experience is usually fun and well worth the effort/money. I’m still a noob, so I don’t even get to play in the games, but just being there and warming up with everyone, watching the game, helping out here and there, I feel I’m doing something great with my time.

We have had 3 games so far, one of which we’ve won and the other two we lost. Our last game was very frustrating, things just wouldn’t work out for us and we lost pretty badly in the end (called game). Even so, I was looking forward to yesterday’s game, but it was canceled due to bad field conditions because of the terrible weather here in Tokyo.

Oh yeah, classes started this week. I’m now in the 500 level at TUFS, and I can tell it’s a slight step up content wise. However, the workload is still meager in language class. But that’s okay, because I’ve got things to do for Manchester Uni on the side, so I’m still quite busy. I just can’t wait until it gets warm and sunny every day, so I can fit in a picnic or two every week with friends. Right now, days are just cold, wet and demoralising.

Study, adventure | casmo | 18.04.2010 07:27 | Comments (0)

2 Week Trip With Parents

I’ve been avoiding this post because it felt like so much work. Thus, to motivate myself, I will keep this very short, even though the trip was really nice and we experienced many different things.

I was on a 2 week trip with my parents, which was by now a long, long time ago. We went from Tokyo->Kyoto->Himeji->Kobe->Kurashiki->Nara->Tokyo. It has been a long time since I saw my parents, so it was great to spend some time with them as a family on vacation kinda thing. They tried many different foods and drinks, saw great buildings (and ugly ones), and, I think, came to understand the Japanese culture quite well. Well, as much as one can in such a short period of time.

I shall now present one picture for each location we visited. If you want to see more, ask me and I shall prepare a 4 hour presentation personally for you (no breaks), in which every temple/shrine’s detail we visited is depicted. 3 hours of that alone would be Kyoto by the way.