The good old times

Hey everyone,

work-wise a lot has happened lately. I took the SAP Sales&Distribution certification and passed! And I have been assigned to my first project. Unfortunately I can't say much about it, but I can tell you that I am very excited about it. And that I will be able to go to another country for work (but I really don't know much myself). Until my first project starts in two weeks I have my last days of training. And I will just enjoy them.
Also I just realized that I have started working in my company almost half a year ago, it is incredible how the time flies when you are having fun.
And since I haven't had any holidays in half a year (except for the Golden Week in May) I decided to take one in September. I will have 9 days off and go traveling! When I know more I will let you know, but I am also very excited about that!!!

In the last couple of weeks a lot of friends have come to Tokyo and it has been great catching up with them.
First Roy stayed over and we went to the Zoo (finally) and the Cinema (Inside Out is such a cute movie) and did our Karaoke / Torikizoku routine.
It was an incredible hot day and so all animals were sleeping, unfortunately. But it was still fun. Like I just mentioned above Inside Out is a really cute movie. We watched it in Japanese and actually understood most of it, which I am very proud of.

The weekend after Roys visit I met with Kati (one of my friends from University in Germany). She is now back in Germany but I was very happy to see her again just for a couple of hours!!

On Monday after my SAP Test I managed to meet with Uri just for an hour to catch up. Which is a miracle because we never meet, even if we are in the same city...

Summer time

Hello everyone,

the first two weeks of SAP Sales & Distribution training are over. It is in Japanese and kind of hard, but I am able to use the English material to study with and I am confident that I will pass the exam in two weeks.

Since coming back from Malaysia the weather has been fantastic, over 30 degrees and sunshine all day long. Unfortunately I only get to enjoy the weather on the weekends.
There are certain things that you just have to do in Japan. And in summer one of those things are Hanabi (Fireworks). So thats what I did! I went with one of my friends to a fireworks event close to her home. We didn't actually sit in the official area for the fireworks and thats why it was not so crowded (thankfully). We still had a very nice view. The actual fireworks took over an hours and it was really amazing. Unfortunately it is hard to take pictures. Here are some of the best I managed to take, but they don't do the actual thing justice.

I also found some time to do some tourist stuf on the weekend, and so I went to Enoshima with my boyfriend.
Enoshima is a very small island off the coast of Kamakura about one and a half hours from Tokyo by train. And despite being so small there is actually a lot to see and to do.
First we ate Shirasudon, the typical food on Enoshima, which you can get at every corner. Shirasu are very small fish.
Enoshima is actually very high and there are many steps to climb, we made our way up by escalator (because someone, not me, was too lazy to walk) and first visited Enoshima shrine, then the Samuel Cocking Garden and the Iwaya Caves.
Before making our way back home we also went to the beach, just to put our feet in the water!
Here are my impressions: