Cherry-blossom-tree season (which is actually only like 10 days long) came and went sometime in April I think. That day I went to Tsurumai Park in Nagoya with a bunch of my friends and we all played kick ball and looked at the trees. The trees were pretty cool, there were flowers all over the place. A couple weeks later, they had city council elections (I think) all over Japan. I thought their methods of campaigning were pretty funny. All around Handa, they had these big placards with candidate's faces on them. This one is pretty close to my work.
I went to the beach a week or so after that. The water was still way too cold to swim, so I walked around and found a pretty cool shrine off the road and in the woods a little.
I walked to the top of those stairs in the left picture, and then when I got to the top, I could see the ocean. It was pretty cool. The shrine itself was not so impressive, so I won't include any pictures of that.
Then, a few weeks ago, I went to Osaka with Becky and her sister. It was a cool city, I liked it a lot. We went to the aquarium there where they have a whale shark. This whale shark is so famous, it's even in our Aeon textbooks. The whale was cool, but definitely not as awesome as these HUGE crabs crawling all over this big tank.
The disappointing whale shark.
The AWESOME crabs! I couldn't even believe how humongous they were. Isn't he terrifying?!
Last weekend I went to a Nagoya Dragons baseball game. I had forgotten how boring baseball can be. The stadium did remind me of the Astrodome though.
After that, we all went to another neighborhood and played table tennis and did some bowling. It was really fun! Here's a picture of almost everyone.
Maybe that's it. I'm going to Hiroshima not this weekend but the next, and then to Tokyo for a day a couple days after I get back from Hiroshima. It's good having things to look forward to.
