Summer in Japan means cooled watermelon, Yukatas and summer festivals with gigantiv fireworks. When I came to Japan for my year abroad, we arrived after the last natsumatsuri were held and then I flew back just two days before the first one in the next year. So I never had the chance to experience a…
You might be wondering what happened to our Taiwan adventures (after all we’ve been back quite some time) but this time I have at least a (somewhat) good reason. The last weeks I was busy making my first steps as a freelancer. Even before coming to Japan, working as a freelancer here seemed to be…
I don’t know if you have them in your country as well (I certainly don’t know any in Germany), but here in Japan some of the yogurts have motivational messages and quotes on their underside. So when you eat your yogurt in the morning you might get an motivational “Today will be a great day!”…
We didn’t last long under the scorching sun at the Drago Boat Festival and we were happy to be in the air-conditioned bus back. Right across the street from the shuttle bus stop we lined up for the next bus, which was supposed to get us to Jiufen. It is said, that Hayao Miyazaki was…
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1. You can’t stop using useful Japanese words. 2. Everything is natsukashii. 3. You forget what words aren’t English. 4. You simply forget English words. 5. You use Japanese particles in your sentences. 6. You use Japanese English. 7. You talk to yourself in Japanese. 8. Your answers become more vague. 9. You make lame bilingual puns. 10.…
I love flowers. It’s astounding in how many colors those beautiful petals come and how they can please the eye as little dots of color along the way. Of course there are little front yards and flowers on the balconies in Germany, but here in Japan I find it amazing how many flowers can fit…
Our trip to Taiwan was just in time for the Dragon Boat Festival on June 20th and of course we set aside the morning to go and have a look at the scene. The Festival is held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar and is said to date back…
The next day was a rough start. Well, as we went to bed around 4 am you probably can’t really say “next” day. (Random Fact: I somehow always feel like it’s only the next day after I went to bed, does this happen to you,too?) Breakfast was till 10 am and we actually managed to…
It is astounding how many pictures one can take in only four days… It took me quite some time to sort through all the pictures I made in Taiwan but I really like most of them and they look so much different than pictures from Japan. But let’s start from the beginning and work our…
Reblogging because it’s just one of the things described in it, an article you read while thinking “Yes, exactly!” The Bloggess The greatest gift in the world is to grant a kindness to another. The amazing thing though is that the aforementioned gift is one you give yourself. It may be a small thing. Leaving…
I lost my heart in Japan 