Days in Nagano

I spent last week in Nagano in a sort of study camp to prepare for our Interior Coordinator qualification exam. I didn't expect it to be fun, but I also didn't expect it to be so boring. Waking up at 6, studying the whole day until 23.30, it was really exhausting. The last day we had a sports' day and we played volleyball and basketball, which I didn't do for a long time. I enjoyed that, but I wanted to play more!! I miss the old good days at high school playing volley and soccer every freetime we had. We're not young anymore :(

And after that, we had 2 hours to walk around the city, which is really nice. It has a little bit of Kyoto (maybe the old houses and the Zenkoji Temple in the middle of the city) but something in it was new. It also had some european air (even though I've never been to Europe, I'm just comparing it to the "image" of Europe that I have). I think I'd like the city better in winter, yuppy !!

We went by shinkansen (bullet train) and it was my first time taking it... I can say it wasn't much out of this world experience as I expected. The best thing of my trip to Nagano was Gunma.. !! (?!)

I went to a friend's place in Maebashi, Gunma prefecture, she took me to her favorite coffee shop in her hometown, we drove around, we went to gaze some stars along a river, it almost felt like home! We climbed a little mountain in the middle of the darkness and saw some glowflies. It was really nice!

I can't say I'm a country girl, but I'm not as city girl as I thought... I need more stars in my nights.