Baseball

Keio played their rivals Wasaeda in baseball. I went with some friends from my dorm.
When we got there, underneath the stadium was filed with people, they weren't letting people in to sit until an exact time. Needless to say everyone was humming with excitement and cheering. School sprit swept over and I was attempting cheers in Japanese alongside hundreds of other dedicated Keio fans.
The cheerleaders performed well, coaxing the crowd into shouting and cheering. Wasaeda had a way better crowd, they perfected the wave, and made a massive "W" with towels they held up to the sky.
Wasaeda won, and it rained pretty hard. It was fun running home through downpours.

photo

this is rare. an empty train? i was on the takasaki line out to Gunma around 9 pm.

Rice Paddies in Gunma

Rosie's apartment



these fish expected a lot from me.
grooming in the Karuizama Park
The English Rose GardenVegetables+fruit

Rain

The rain season is not exactly a small sprinkle here in Tokyo. Instead sky-high humidity levels and heavy rainfall contributes to an overall soaking wet Japan for the better part of June and July. Last year, according to Japan’s Statistic Bureau, in the month of June only 120 hours of sunshine were recorded, making for a pretty dark and dreary rain season. Immigrants in Japan are of course aware of the seasonal spike, but seem to know little beyond “it rains”. Fred Dubois, a burly French Canadian thought that the weather we are experiencing now in late May and early June was the rain season. His booming voice sounded pretty confident that he could handle the rain season, and thought his Japanese friends had talked it up as a joke. He said, “I kind of like the rain, not one month of rain, but right now I’m pretty neutral.” After being read the former statistic however, his reaction was “oh… shit, I had no idea! I thought this was the rain season!”