Finally, It's Spring! School and Other Activties

The weather is getting warmer, the sky is getting blue, the cherry blossoms are blooming and soon the official Japanese school year will start. That means the campus will be getting much more lively. One of the events to ring in the new school year is to have club festival!
Here you can see the Rock Band and the Karate Club showing off in hopes of new members.

The cheery active atmosphere on campus in addition to the beautiful day meant one thing to me: a huge sudden craving for cookies 'n cream ice cream, which they don't have here. But I got the next best thing.

I gave into my craving and my 4-year McDonalds abstinence
and got an Oreo McFlurry with my friend Ashley. Saying it was the best
ice cream of my life would be a severe understatement.

One of the good things about good weather is my half-hour bike ride to school is much more pleasant. Except for this part:

This hill so far as been a great way to warm up on the chilly mornings,
I am only now realizing that when it gets warm, this guy will be
the reason I show up sweaty and nasty to my morning classes.

Since the cherry blossoms are blooming the entirety of Japan will be going Hanami (literally meaning flower viewing) I will also partake in this tradition. Basically it is the quintessntial Japanese picnic under the cherry trees. I attempted to do this on saturday but we got rained out, but this coming tuesday I will be heading over to Osaka Castle to eat and drink and celebrate the blossoms. I will post on that soon! A teaser for you of the pictures to come: