https://www.blog.urara.pl/feed https://www.blog.urara.pl/baseball-in-japan Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:47:00 +0900 https://www.blog.urara.pl/baseball-in-japan This post is based on a "Baseball in Japan" presentation I've made for an anime convention—available here in Polish. This might still be a work in progress. ✧✧✧ Beginnings It is believed that… https://www.blog.urara.pl/hate-is-a-strong-word-but-i-really-really-really-don't-like-windows-11 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:21:00 +0900 https://www.blog.urara.pl/hate-is-a-strong-word-but-i-really-really-really-don't-like-windows-11 I regretted installing Win11 from the very start. It seemed slow, buggy, and lacked some Win10 features I liked and used. What, I can't put a taskbar where I like it (on the left side of the screen)?… https://www.blog.urara.pl/why-don't-we-learn-sign-language Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:52:00 +0900 https://www.blog.urara.pl/why-don't-we-learn-sign-language When I was in Japan, I picked Sign Language. It's a skill I've been wanting to learn for some time now, and my interest was renewed after watching an interview with a Japanese ex-drug dealer (yes,… https://www.blog.urara.pl/dmz Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:54:00 +0900 https://www.blog.urara.pl/dmz DMZ stands for Demilitarized Zone. It's a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula near the 38th parallel north, splitting it almost in half. The zone's role is to limit physical and visual… https://www.blog.urara.pl/travelling-with-a-broken-wrist Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:58:00 +0900 https://www.blog.urara.pl/travelling-with-a-broken-wrist In my last post, just a week before my departure from Japan, I wrote how I had never been sick or to the clinic during a whole year abroad. Little did I know... What happened? Just three days after… https://www.blog.urara.pl/working-holiday-in-japan-retrospection Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:25:00 +0900 https://www.blog.urara.pl/working-holiday-in-japan-retrospection Before going on a year-long Working Holiday, I made a post with my predictions about this year. Now, just one week before my visa expires, time to compare them with reality. I think I will miss...… https://www.blog.urara.pl/gaming-while-travelling-light Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:32:00 +0900 https://www.blog.urara.pl/gaming-while-travelling-light I decided to go for a one-year-long journey with iPad, camera and Kindle, but not any other form of electronic entertainment. And I do like games. Bringing Switch with me would be great, yes, I… https://www.blog.urara.pl/blog-tag-game Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:50:00 +0900 https://www.blog.urara.pl/blog-tag-game Surfing the Indie Web has become my hobby. Reading blogs about niche hobbies, admiring unique layouts, experiencing people expressing themselves on a sites they built... Coming from social media,… https://www.blog.urara.pl/nagano Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:57:00 +0900 https://www.blog.urara.pl/nagano I spend my entire winter in Madarao, Nagano prefecture. I managed to get a job from Workaway in a really nice lodge with a nearly 10 rating on booking dot com (yup, rich people retreat!). It was… https://www.blog.urara.pl/tweets-and-chirps Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:32:00 +0900 https://www.blog.urara.pl/tweets-and-chirps When I woke up a few days ago, I heard birds chirping outside my window. It was the first thing I heard in my day and made me so happy - a nature greeting me like that, wonderful! I had never really…