May 19th, 2026
- 15 reviews on WaniKani
- 27 reviews on Bunpro
- 2 lessons on Bunpro
- 11 min of Kanji Learner’s Course
- Book: いじめ返しp68->p70
I did my part, two pages できた! But jetlag has finally hit me today, so that’s probably what I’m finishing at today and hoping other days will have more study ^^
Today it’s about diet and being bullied about body image, always a sweet topic ^^
Also, Bunpro added a few new grammar points for each level, I might have to return to them after N1 grammar has been covered~
Life
what a cute little duk i wonder what is such a cute little duk doing in boston
One friend I know here is very much into animals, to the point where she’s volunteering in an online catalog of bird spottings and updating positions where birds have been seen so that other people can find them, but also some of the more rare spottings are going through moderation and she ranted that her submissions have been taken down once the birds were deemed to be mislabeled ^^
But yeah, I’m not in Boston for sightseeing and because of that I’m doing a little less of walking around
Still enough to see some history of the town ^^
I went to Macy’s and they didn’t sell parades, cowards >:[
And also, after a very stressful cooperation between different services, I got my luggage back! Inside was intact, which meant that all the things I haphazardly threw in in Sapporo still didn’t have proper places and were slapped on one another ^^
And as a wild thing, the temperature went up to 37 degrees today… and then a thunderstorm broke and it started looking really, really rainy, I think I might have been on a tip of enshrining an annual tradition of losing my powerbanks in May due to typhoons in Boston, but I covered that one in a bag and it’s still doing fine ^^
Either way, see you tomorrow!
(keep up the good work, it ain’t over 'til you’re back at home)
JAPANESE DO NOT COVER THEIR MOUTHS WHEN THEY COUGH XDDDD
The mobility provided by JR Trains is incredible and it’s a deal that’s really hard to reproduce outside of Japan! The mobility has definitely influenced how towns are created, and 北海道 was one of the last to see the development happening - in Europe, metropolitan areas often don’t have any bigger towns around it for the next hundred kilometers or so, in Japan, it feels like there’s a town every few dozen kilometers, and that’s a really cool thing! In general, people say that JR Passes might be overrated and might not be one-size-fits-all solutions, but if you’re an ADHD traveller, like I am, you’ll use multiplicities of the value of the JR Ticket and you’ll have a great time each time ^^
I had more friends in Japan than I thought! And I made more friends in Japan than I thought as well! I’m so grateful to 
Kobe, Osaka and Takarazuka ended up being my favorite places I’ve visited, and I wish I could spend a bit longer in each of them! All Kobe, Osaka and Takarazuka feel like genuine towns that provide all sorts of amenities I enjoy when I adventure, but also I could genuinely see myself living in one of those! The day when the weather broke down in 北海道 and the skies became genuinely hopelessly gray in Sapporo was just a reminder that I picked a great time to visit it, but long term it would probably be weird to be living in there ^^
I didn’t expect how much I’d miss fruit over my adventure in Japan, and a few times I went out of my way to get myself an overpriced crepe with strawberries simply because I haven’t seen fruits in a while ^^
Considering how Japan is in a financial crisis and a lot of physical goods were cheaper than ever, and of course I bought a lot of them, it was weird to see so many different opportunities, stalls, booths, just crammed right next to one another, to part ways with your money. I think I might have an okay filter in terms of saying “no” to buying things, but the amount of commerce was interesting to witness and I definitely gave in more than I would have doing sightseeing in Europe - and in majority of the cases, liked where my money went! ^^
The older I get, the more I start prioritizing experiences over physical things, and I have a feeling that Japan developed a very standardized framework of how experiences should be conducted - of course, there’s the history-rich Kyoto or Himeji, if you’re going to Asahikawa, make sure to check the zoo! If you’re going to Furano, make sure you check the lavender fields! One thought I’ve had however, is that I kind of… don’t necessarily like those package holiday experiences, of arriving at destination A, waiting for a small bus to drive you to the place where you get to spend 47 minutes looking at a thing before bus picks you up and moves you to destination B, and I felt like some of the towns were not necessarily prepared for more, hm, freedom of experiencing adventures. If you don’t go to the castle/zoo in Wakayama, sure there will be a few statues you can look at… but the rest of the city is just a big residential area instead 
I learned so much Japanese over the trip it’s crazy, and I’m glad DIO-Berry opened me up, because otherwise I’d just introvert my way through doing the bare minimum of talking to people necessary to have my goals met ^^
You might think my energy resources never run out, but I think 3 weeks of adventuring every day is a perfect amount of time for me - I didn’t have a single worse day, I was able to consistently walk as much as I did and return to the hotel room happy and energized to go out the next day, I have a feeling that if I added another 2 weeks or something, I’d probably just spend a few days with my nose buried down in a book section at Book-Off and not adventure as much, on May 16th I was already thinking like “yep, I think it’s time to take a rest” followed by “PERFECT TIMING, only two days left”, so I was able to get the energy reserves and adventure for the next two days ^^
Sleep is very important. Also, I can’t sleep on a plane really well. Also, the 37 hour long May 18th and having my suitcase be delayed was a perfect demonstration to me that I can use my resources to get myself awake and energized for a bit longer than 24 hours! Following by 11 hours of sleep though 
