Baseball in Japan
This post is based on a "Baseball in Japan" presentation I've made for an anime convention—available here in Polish. This might still be a work in progress. ✧✧✧ Beginnings It is believed that…
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Hate is a strong word, but I really really really don’t like Windows 11
I regretted installing Win11 from the very start. It seemed slow, buggy, and lacked some Win10 features I liked and used. What, I can't put a taskbar where I like it (on the left side of the screen)?…
Why don't we all learn Sign Language?
When I was in Japan, I picked Sign Language. It's a skill I've been wanting to learn for some time now, and my interest was renewed after watching an interview with a Japanese ex-drug dealer (yes,…
DMZ. Between the North and South Korea
DMZ stands for Demilitarized Zone. It's a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula near the 38th parallel north, splitting it almost in half. The zone's role is to limit physical and visual…
I spoke too soon... Travelling with a broken wrist
In my last post, just a week before my departure from Japan, I wrote how I had never been sick or to the clinic during a whole year abroad. Little did I know... What happened? Just three days after…
Working Holiday in Japan: retrospection
Before going on a year-long Working Holiday, I made a post with my predictions about this year. Now, just one week before my visa expires, time to compare them with reality. I think I will miss...…
Gaming while travelling light
I decided to go for a one-year-long journey with iPad, camera and Kindle, but not any other form of electronic entertainment. And I do like games. Bringing Switch with me would be great, yes, I…
Blog Tag Game
Surfing the Indie Web has become my hobby. Reading blogs about niche hobbies, admiring unique layouts, experiencing people expressing themselves on a sites they built... Coming from social media,…
Nagano - 3 months in the middle of nowhere
I spend my entire winter in Madarao, Nagano prefecture. I managed to get a job from Workaway in a really nice lodge with a nearly 10 rating on booking dot com (yup, rich people retreat!). It was…
Tweets and chirps
When I woke up a few days ago, I heard birds chirping outside my window. It was the first thing I heard in my day and made me so happy - a nature greeting me like that, wonderful! I had never really…