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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Sendai – adventures with horses and… guiding kids for a TV show?

    I’ve been in Sendai for almost 2 months – working for accommodation in a KIKO hostel (sending big hugs to all the people I met and worked with in that place!). The hostel was known for its “global meets local” slogan and, as I quickly learned, it lived up to its name, hosting various cultural…

  • My Tokyo Highlights

    I started my Working Holiday in Tokyo. I decided to stay there for almost 3 whole months (from the beginning of August to the end of October), wanting to explore it to the absolute maximum. So, what were my highlights from that stay (in no particular order)? 1. Explored free museums In the insects’ museum,…

  • So… I’m going on a Working Holiday

    Time to go to Japan. Again. I can eat the same thing for weeks. Every day, I’ll be more than happy to dig into My Current Fav Snack and devour it. Until, after some time, it stops tasting good. “I’ll never find a Snack this good again,” I think, but later I am proven wrong…

  • Goroawase

    Yoroshiku is a Japanese phrase conveying something along the “please take care of me” lines. But you can also say… 4649! Goroawase — what is it and how does it work? Goroawase is a Japanese-only phenomenon. A game of sorts, or a riddle, revolving around conveying letters by means of numbers. Numbers in English: 0 zero, o, null1…

  • 6 months of learning Japanese daily

    The journey continues! Some time ago, I wrote about 4 months of learning Japanese. Now, it’s been 6 months, and I still learn every day. I know, not a lot of time has passed, but still, some of the things have changed. Here are a few fresh takes on my learning journey… 1. I cannot…

  • How i learn Kanji and why I LOVE learning Kanji

    “Learning kanji is the worst”“You have to learn over 2000 of them?! Nooo wayy” Well well well. Learning kanji is my favorite part of learning Japanese. I know it can seem intimidating – after all, we are talking about more than 2000 characters! Of course, learning random pictures without any plan would be pretty hard.…

  • 4 months of learning Japanese daily

    An no, no Duolingo involved! Every day I wake up early and spend more than an hour learning Japanese before going to work. At the very beginning, I learned Hiragana and Katakana. Then, I introduced myself to radicals (small elements that build up kanji) and kanji themselves (which is my favorite part, by the way!).…