Wally Nes’ Blog

So, life is still moving along. And nothing specific has happened. Yet, I am posting anyway.

Well, fist of all, after the first day of explosions I was promised a second (:D)
These were rather disappointing. They didn’t even need a bombshelter for these, just a cleared space. And while I can’t post pictures. I can still make pictures.

And as it happened it had snowed that night so while I can’t post explosion pictures i can post these.
きれいだね

This meant, however, that instead of taking the heated bus from my dorm to the station, I took my swanky 26 inch-frame bicycle.
Busses don’t stop for pictures . . .hmpf. And while going up a 15% incline every everning is rather annoying. Going down one covered in snow is absolutely wicked. ちょっと　あぶない

At the end of that day there was also a New Years Party. Coz, you know . . . a new year started (like 4 weeks ago).
But first you have to get back on schedule. Obviously the 2 week break caused immense setbacks and everything has to be back up and running before we can throw a party or anything.

Free sushi, sashimi, yakimono and assorted other stuff. And because I was new I had to taste some of everything. ‘sgoooooooood.
Some of the colleagues I’ve been working with over the last 2.5 weeks turned out to be far more talkative than at the office. And I could do nothing to stop the 10 minute speech-flood about the correct way of making sake. Halfway through another colleage leaned closer to whisper in my ear that he used terms that they didn’t know. All in all it was a pretty good day.

So then today my quiet weekend started. The last two weekends all involved some running and busyisms. So today I slept in and when I had washed, dressed and fed I decided to go out and see some of the places in this town I hadn’t seen.

Sanda was rural for ages, so unless you’re surrounded by young concrete you’re still in the country and it has a lot of places I haven’t seen yet. On the bike once again, the snow long gone . That stuff hasn’t survived a day yet. But we get new snow every 3 nights or so, so I keep hoping.
Anyway, there’s a “university” close to here. So I headed there first.
I didn’t find a university. I found the recording place of the 1970′s Zorry instead.
It wasn’t even a real university . Just a high school that called itself that. I suppose I should have been suspicious when it was called “university” instead of 大学 but there you go. Which brings me back to the Americanisation of this town. Shin Sanda has some different “villages”. I live in Woodytown, there’s a Culturetown and a Techpark. And I’m similarly not refering to the Japanese equivalent, but to places really called “Woodytown”, they have the good graces to use Katakana though.

But it isn’t built like america, or at least not the places I headed for today. First of all, it started raining. That was clue #1. Then I got into the countryside. This is Japan so countryside consists of ricepaddies. Or at least . . .they should. Instead there were dairy farms. And after the Dairy farms there were Shrubbery Nursery. As I sat pondering this and looking on the map where to go to get out of the rain fastest I was passed by a whole bunch of guys on racingbikes with matching jerseys.

I move across the entire frigging world en ik woon in neukend Boskoop man

WTF.

Tomorrow I’ll head out north. Assuming it rains less than this today.

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Honey, yourmom is stalking me again

- Wally

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