flashbacks

国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった。

goodbye to my tučňáks

I got lost in Hondori (a true achievement, indeed) but these girls found me and we had our goodbye after all.

Slightly drunk, M. leaves us shortly for a baito interview.

We try make-up in a drugstore like they do in the movies.

and the compulsory purikura, of course.

It feels unreal that my two dearest Korean tučňáks should leave

Tokio

- movie goodbyes with my dearest J., H., and A. at the bus stop. when I'd come back to Hiroshima they'd be gone back to Korea and France.
- 13 hours on a bus, memories of travelling around Europe, excitement for this new boundary creating adventure
- I DID NOT GET LOST
- reunion at the Czech embassy with D. and T., presidential elections, moments of hope - replaced by despair and Korean alcohol at D.'s dorms when the votes were counted
- Š. joined us and we have our own little Olomouc in this giant city for a few brief moments
- D. is simply awesome at showing us the best pubs around Tokio; I find a new love for free refill cabbage plates
- reunion with Sayo, my Jap-Eng tandem partner from Germany. omotenashi at its best and real tourism around Tokio. this time we speak Japanese and she occasionally throws in some German words. I am loving this.
- Monday with D., roommate flashbacks from Olomouc <3
- Odaiba with T. was 最高 and oddly relaxing

I was hopelessly bad at making these bunny sweets but the instructor took pity on me and helped me a bit so it (right) at least resembles a bunny.

pure happiness from vegetarian food, a true rarity in Japan. endless gratitude to Sayo for remembering and respecting this.

gojira

we're there!

生ビール、久しぶり

translations at its best

purikura, of course

marně volíme

birthday

The semester ended and everyone left. Most of the students were here only for one semester or already have been here for a year and so literally only 8 of us stayed in the whole of i-house. And of these eight survivors, more than half went back to their countries for the spring vacation. It feels a little postapocalyptic wandering alone around the empy building just occasionally bumping into the janitor or strange men cleaning rooms after the departed (no pun indeed) students. 

Anyway, I thought my birthday was going to be rather lonely but it turned out really nice. My lovely buddy R. and T. surprised me after work on Friday night waiting in the i-house, we ate cake and found a place with vegetarian food (!!). And on Sunday I went out with my favorite Narumi and Aki <3 

(the most oshare club in Hiroshima, Eight, on the sixth floor)

internship updates

- on my first day, my boss (why is it so weird to use this word, anyway, N.) left in the middle of the day and continued to send me instructions via Line

- today I found out there is a job position called the "director of MICE" (meetings, incentives, conventions and events)

- Either I have earned their trust super quickly or, more likely, they are too busy not to trust me. Either way, my tasks are getting more and more unrealistically vague. I just got a message with the instructions literally being only "finalize the document. check EVERYTHING."

- I was working on a background research and N. wanted to search for something in the report before I was finished making it. The thought terriefied me a bit. I found our conversation that followed almost poetic.
- me: But it is just chaos now...

- N: Chaos fine.

- ... N. comes back after a few minutes

- me (slightly panicking): Is the chaos really fine?
- N.: Yes, it makes sense.