The long way homePosted on 2010/04/03 15:02:09 (April 2010). [Saturday 3rd April 2010]
The celebrations for my birthday yesterday were quite in a low key, mostly because the work day was rather heavy so the real "day off" was this Saturday that I had been planning since February.
Why the planning? Well, the answer is in one word "hanami", which means basically "watching the flowers" referred to the cherry blossoms that are a prominent feature here in Japan.
Since February I started studying all the average dates when the blossoms reached 100% bloom (in Japan is a rather big thing and there are a lot of sites with historical data that can be checked), and my calculations told me that this was meant to be the best weekend to get the best view of the cherry blossoms.
Well... I was BLOODY RIGHT!! :D I am actually quite impressed that I managed to get it spot on, and if we skip on the weather that has been quite cold the rest was almost perfect.
I say almost because my session of "Yozakura" (hanami done by night) was ruined by rain...
Today, de facto, was the very last day of this business trip, far too long as 25days are really too many, although as usual the prospect of going back home is quite scary on one side (bills, office work, coming to terms that I cannot play football anymore, etc etc) and something I looked forward to as I will be able finally to sleep in my bed.
But the trip is not that quick as I wish it to be, a good day separate me from leaving here and finally close the bag after having unpacked it (that's when I REALLY feel at home)...
Then it will be time to think about the next trip already, again Japan in June and then maybe some other places such as Bangladesh and Singapore... I have to see at the moment the prospect of another business trip is like having a nightmare when awake!
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