While the process of getting my license may have sucked, I did find some bright spots. Turns out Japanese rest stops on the highway are head and shoulders above the ones back home. I also got to celebrate getting my license by finally going to Hitachi Seaside Park!
I’ve been driving in Japan pretty much since I arrived here using an international driver’s license. However, with my birthday coming up soon, my Canadian driver’s license is set to expire.
It’s a weird thing once you achieve a dream you’ve had for a long time. You’re proud of your accomplishment, you revel in your completion of whatever it is you set out to do, and then you start to wonder. Okay, now what?
The weather is slowly getting warmer, the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, and the new school year has started in earnest. April 9th was the first day of the new school year, while it would still be a bit before I started teaching classes again, I was excited to get back into the swing of things.
I feel like I’ve been a little more dour in my most recent blog posts. I won’t fault myself too much for that, the end of the school year brought about more changes than I had really expected.
While I’ve only met with my English club twice, once a brief 15 minute intro, and then the first official meeting, we brainstormed some ideas of what to do. I want to make English club as fun as I can, so I suggested some board and video games.
Well, somewhere around the 60 hour mark, I managed to finish Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. It’s a huge, quite remarkable game, even if I was left a little cold on the ending. There’s plenty to talk about before we get to the ending though, and I’ll be sure to put a big spoiler warning before diving into this game’s rather controversial ending.
I’ve been bouncing between a lot of media recently, and was finding it hard to zero in on a specific topic for this week. So instead, I thought I’d just do a bit of a scatter shot and mention all the different things I’ve been checking out lately.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a weird game. It’s not quite like any other game I’ve played, and that’s both a good thing, and a not so good thing. It’s full of friction it’s ways I like, and some ways I could do without.
On March 1st, Akira Toriyama passed away due to an acute subdural hematoma at the age of 68. A private funeral was held by his family who grieved his passing. One week later his death was announced to the world, and the whole world mourned.
Unicorn Overlord, which isn’t the greatest name, but anything with Unicorn in the title gets points from me, is a tactical role playing game from Vanillaware. Vanillaware games are like a rare treat, coming out only every couple of years, always certain to be interesting, if not outright delicious.
The world is a complicated place. People are complicated. Relationships are complicated. Life is complicated. Yet at the same time, it’s also so very simple.