Sorry for this being late! But here’s a summary of all five days of the Saga International Balloon Fiesta – as well as what it’s like to be a volunteer. A typical day Try to wake up at 4:45, actually wake up at 5am. Freeze while trying to change into warmer clothes. Get to the… Read More Saga International Balloon Fiesta Guide (Part 1)
Today was my Church’s autumn bazaar!! I was kinda worried in the morning, cause I was in Saga last week and didn’t know what was going on, but I managed to arrive in time for service! I should really have checked in with everyone yesterday, because apparently everyone was like “is Eustacia actually coming to… Read More Church Autumn Charity Bazaar
I have realised that this blog has turned into the occasional writing update. (Also, I need to update about how the editing went… all those months ago ><) But anyway, I’m participating in NaNoWriMo again this year, and here’s my Week 1 update: Word Count: 10,085 I’m 1581 words behind, as of today, and that’s… Read More NaNoWriMo 2015: Week 1
After stressing out about this for the past few weeks, I finally handed in my third year zemi-paper yesterday! I’m like finally! The last part was really tough. When we finally got approval for the way we wanted to do the topic, we ran into a few problems. For example, data collection. I thought that… Read More My Zemi Paper is Done!
Guess who has a cold? Me! (Yesterday was very bad – the guys ended up bringing me their heater, for which I am very thankful) As always, I’m using the lull before the afternoon competition to write this. Sadly, the afternoon competitions for both day 2 and 3 were cancelled, Day 2 because of the… Read More Saga International Balloon Festival Days 3 and 4
I’m writing this as we’re waiting for news about whether the afternoon competition of Day 2 for the Saga International Balloon Fiesta can be held. The wind’s been rather strong since this morning (we actually cancelled, then resumed the morning competition), so it’s a bit hard to say whether we can hold this afternoon’s competition.… Read More Saga International Balloon Fiesta Days 1 and 2
I’m writing this from the 公民館 (community centre) in Saga. I arrived this evening, because for the next 5 days, I’ll be helping out at the Saga International Balloon Fiesta as part of the Net Team!! So you can probably expect almost daily blogposts 😀 And unlike yesterday, I can finally give an update as… Read More Zemi Paper Update
… my essay didn’t want to cooperate. Hey everyone! As you might know, I have a third year essay to finish – and there’s less than a week to go. I thought things were going ok, and was going to give everyone an update, but then we ran into some data problems. I’m going to… Read More I was going to blog today but…
Yesterday, I woke up at 6 am to go to Tsuiki Air Base. Apparently, there was some sort of open-house day thing going on, and my zemi gave me the opportunity to go there for free. Obviously, I opted to go. The first thing I saw on the bus was this sign: I’m guessing this… Read More Visit to Tsuiki Air Base
As you all know, I’m intending to work in Japan. And so, on Thursday, I went for my first 懇談会 (kondankai) for an M&A company in Osaka. My senior sort of nominated me, so I figured it would be good to take a look at how they do things, even if it was inconvenient to… Read More First Company 懇談会 (Kondankai) in Osaka
