Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto...

Hi again. Today I’ll write about a nice place to visit, but only visit, because living in this country it’s annoying, overpopulation, constant traffic jams and crammed subway. I talk about Japan, the “rising sun” empire, well; there is no emperor anymore but it sounds pretty cool isn’t? Why would I like to go so far? Because I always like to go there, since I was a boy, it is one of my dreams and foremost a goal to complete.

Well, this is the land of the samurai so along the small country it is possible to find and visit marvelous edifications from that historical period like temples, castles and pagodas. Also it is the land of Kurosawa, one of the great masters of Japanese and worldwide cinema, the land of Karate one of my favourite sports (we say that Okinawa is part of Japan instead of China, at least legally, because culturally it is closer to China, so Karate comes originally from China) and the land of manga and anime (Japanese comic books and animation movies respectively) some of my hobbies. I would like to organize my travel in order to visit and experience the things that I mentioned before, like visit historical places, cinema museums searching for Kurosawa souvenirs, attend to some karate tournaments and go around through Akihabara district. (a district where it concentrates the most of manga and anime industry)

But I said it before, I would like only go to Japan for visit and not for a live because the human conditions are awful, too much people for me, I prefer live quietly without disturb of any kind, so Japan definitively it is not a nice place to live.

A brief review of the last term...

Well, mainly in my academic life I learned how to make a research for myself and when I say for myself I mean that I had to start from “zero”, "Workshop I" was the name of the subject and this was a real challenge because I had to design all the investigation since theory until field work so during the term I learned step by step how to optimize limited resources like time, work, and of course, money so I can say that this was the most relevant thing that I learned during the past term, well I also learned from other subjects but these weren’t out of common lectures.

Secondly, during the past term I had more free time than the past years because I took less subjects than other terms, I used to take 5 or more subjects per term but now I only take 4 or 5 as a limit so my free time increased a lot above all because in the last terms of the career (sociology) subjects are oriented to the practical way of sociology instead of theoretical way and that was awesome because I could return to my dear hobbies like watch oriental movies, comics reading, and sports, well in fact, virtual sports because I’m a gamer (a videogamer to be more specific) and I play soccer, karate, kung fu, tennis, car races, fencing, athletics, etc, all of these played from the comfort of home jejeje.

Finally during the past term, especially during winter vacations, I had time for my “inner circle” my friends mainly because I stay with family all the time (I still live with them) but I don’t have much time to visit friends so when I have any opportunity like long weekends or vacation I take it to see them and thanks to the few subjects that I took this term I think that I’ll keep my current amount of free time.