This year the cherry blossoms bloomed a little later and the peak weekend was 9-10 April. On the 9th I went up to Osaka Castle Park for the AJET Hanami Party and then back down to Namba to celebrate Jen's birthday earlier that week with a couple of drinks. On the 10th I cycled to Daisen Park and then all the way down to Hamadera-koen (in the very south of Sakai City) which was a little bit more crowded to join my senior (Nagai-san) and her family for a picnic (oden) under what felt like a blanket of sakura. Despite spending a bit of time in Japan previously this was my first time to experience cherry blossoms and hanami - loved it.
Made one final dusk mission to Oizumi Ryokuchi Park after work to catch the end of the cherry blossoms in Osaka and had our 歓送迎会 on the 15th. This is pretty much one big enkai (drinking party) to welcome all the new staff and farewell all the old staff, so seeing as we had about half of the team change over, it was quite a big event. Really nice to see some old faces, and get to know some of the new people a bit better too
On the 18th we managed to book a two hour slot at the futsal fields in Tengachaya and it was great fun and I had a couple of mini games with clean sheets which was a nice confidence booster as it was the first time Ive been able to make practice in a while. It was also Eve's last practice. Am looking forward to heading to Awaji for a tournament with the Osaka Ogres Girls Team in mid May
Headed off to Seoul for Easter Weekend (see previous blog) and the rest of my time in May was spent putting the final touches on our ten day Golden Week trip plan. Organising a trip for four people rather than just one, a few things were a bit "girigiri" (last minute) but we ended up getting everything booked and planned in time to board the night ferry from Osaka to Beppu on Thursday the 28th - the blogs for that trip should be up soon ;)
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