Abnormal Summer

“ What is your favorite season in Japan? ” As we walked down to the nearest station for catching train, my senior threw a topic for both of his junior: my friend and me. It was kind of tradition at our lab to do particular things together: having lunch and dinner, going to the nearest station after university time, shopping to the nearest supermarket between university time, and… many more. I will write them down later once I get back those memories. Those moments were kinda cute since they were exactly resembling what I saw on Japanese anime.  If you watched one of them –especially school-genre-   you may notice the activity of younger kids who are requested to go to and back from school in group. Yea, that scene captured the real activity of Japanese elementary school students. And most of the time, my lab members would do the same. W e talked along the way home as we headed to the station in a group or at least in pair. At that time, we shared our ranking of favorite seasons

I am not proud to say that I spend an excessive amount of time on Sp*tify: almost through all the hours which I spent in front of my personal computer. However, those times provide me a big chance to enjoy a wide range of music. One day, I stumbled upon this Japanese song. Unpredictably too random, actually, since I played an English playlist. Anyway, the song was legit.  I checked the title: Ephemeral . Uhoh never heard that before.  After checking the online dictionary, I fell in love with this word for the way it sounds and the meaning. Many things are ephemeral including my stay in Japan and my memories about it. I realized I did not have chance -nor put effort to do so- to write down anything about my life in Japan whereas it was so memorable; in the bright and dark picture, though.  Suddenly it was over and several epic scenes I had while I was there became vague in my memory. Here I am with more spare time, more effort, and more urge to embody those fleeting moments in Japan thr