Post Mortren

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  • 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 baseball was introduced to Japan by American Christian missionaries. Horace Wilson, a teacher at (what is now) Tokyo University, familiarized his students…

  • 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 is File Explorer so slow? What is this annoying clicking while I resume the audio, and…

  • Why don’t we all learn Sign Language?

    When I was in Japan, I picked up 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, stay with me…). The lady was talking about her time in prison and how the guards were called…

  • DMZ. Between 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 contact between both Koreas, preventing incidents and provocations. Despite its name, this narrow (4km wide) zone contains the most militarized space…

  • 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 gone to the clinic during a whole year abroad. Little did I know… What happened? Just three days after that post, I went on a goodbye meet-up with my friend and his girlfriend. We…

  • 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… (food edition) What I wrote one year ago: I was never a fan of Polish cuisine, so I don’t…

  • Gaming while travelling light

    I decided to go for a one-year-long journey with an iPad, a camera, and a Kindle, but not any other form of electronic entertainment. And I do like games. Bringing a Switch with me would be great; yes, I contemplated that. But I wouldn’t feel comfortable travelling with yet another expensive thing on myself. Sure,…

  • Nagano – 3 months in the middle of nowhere

    I spent 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 supposed to be the most chill time during my stay in Japan – because I felt that traveling…

  • 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- nature greeting me like that, wonderful! I had never really noticed that sound much before – it’s not as if I wasn’t living in areas…

  • One year, one backpack

    I decided to pack for a year in one backpack and one small daypack. After over half a year abroad and experiencing everything from hot and humid summer to knee-deep snow, I can say that it works pretty well! The key to packing for a year in one backpack is to pack for one week……