another two weeks have passed and nothing really big happened. It is still rainy season in Japan, which means it is raining everyday sometimes all day.
ABAP training will be over next week and I learned a lot. Turns out I am actually not bad at programming and I really enjoy it so I hope I will have the opportunity to learn some more programming on the job.
For the last couple of weeks we have all been preparing for the Global Training (in Malaysia), which will be in 10 days. Everyone is trying to brush up their English and discussion skills. The team leaders feel the pressure of leading a team for the first time but we are all excited that we get to go abroad and make new experiences.
Now to something not work related: I have been trying to buy a Yukata (summer kimono) for the last couple of days, after deciding that I wanted to visit some Festivals (called Matsuri) and Fireworks this summer. Finding one that I really liked was much harder than you might thing. All in all I probably visited 10 different shops. The result can be seen in the pictures below. I am not really 100% happy with it yet. Maybe I will go and buy a dark purple belt (called Obi) to wear next time.
I am very proud to say that I managed to put it on all by myself in less than 20 minutes (I was in a hurry to meet my friend JP from Mexico and his dad).
The 3 of us went to Tanabata Festival in Hiratsuka outside of Tokyo. It is one of the biggest Tanabata festivals in Japan. Unfortunately it was raining all the time.
The Tanabata festival, also known as Star festival comes originally from China. According to legend, the Milky Way separates the two lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi (represented by the stars Vega and Altair respectively), and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. In present-day Japan, people generally celebrate this day by writing wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on tanzaku (small pieces of paper), and hanging them on bamboo.
Afterwards we went to Yokohama where we rode the big ferries wheel at the harbor and had a spectacular view of the city.
I also went to the aquarium two weeks ago! With two of my colleagues and it was a lot of fun! I really want to go to the zoo next, but I will have to wait until the weather gets better. Other plans are going to Fireworks and visiting Nikko (a city north of Tokyo, where I haven't been yet, but always wanted to go). So please look forward to my next entry.
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