Robins Japan

I did it, I was back at my language school in Tokyo. It just took me 3 years to do so. I had some extra holiday cause of changing my job, so it was my chance to come back. This time only two weeks. I was actually nervous cause I studied Japanese mainly by myself in the last years and didn't know which class I would fit. Beforehand I did an online test which already pointed out my weaknesses: grammar... At the first day at school I did another test plus an interview to check my level. So my vocabulary were good, my kanji knowledge, my listening and talking but my grammar pretty much sucked. I had the choice to enter two different levels. I chose the higher one and got additional homework to match up with my classmates. But even the higher Level was much lower what I studied in my current book. But it was good. Through the test I found out I cheated my way around many grammar rules and in the class I finally understood some important points. Apparently I was not the only one in...

I really like Japanese summer. Most Japanese think I'm crazy couse of this but at least there I don't freeze outside. The only cold places in japan summer are inside couse people tend to make the air conditioner as cold as possible and then they serve you a cold soup... couse it's summer (I really don't like that^^). But still im freezing less there. Now I'm back in Germany and in the morning it's so damn cold....in the outside! The good thing is, I can take my time here with washing the summer clothes, I don't need them so much here :D The last days we spent with much eating and buying things for home that we can't get here, like matcha latte. Also couse of original tone we could go to the cinema again. One time I took a break from shopping and was at a studio penta. It's a company where you can rent rooms on a hour basis for music rehearsal, so rent a room and a guitar and have fun. And no worries about neigbours couse of good isolation. Find tho...

Today we made a day trip to fujisan (fujiyama). It was a long trip but fun. On the way to the viewing spot we drove with an old style train. It was much shaking and slower but fun :-) on the way it also took stops so that you could see fujisan better. We arived at lake kawaguchiko. From there we took a ropeway up the  katchikatchiyama mountain. At that mountain was a viewing spot where you normally can see fujisan very good. But today he was shy and hiding under some clouds. But it was still a nice view and fun! At the evening we wanted to meet a friend and it turnt out to be a surprise party for us from the old band members of my girlfriend. It was so nice and so much good food in an Italian restaurant :-) also I somehow managed to understand more Japanese than I thought I would. Maybe all the learning slowly starts to pay out. But still it will be a long way to someday speak like in English. Anyway it was much fun and I'm glad for those moments :-)

My first days runs so fast again! Yesterday I had a day full of meeting people who tried to speak Japanese with me. I was at a school festival where we met friends of my Girlfriend. There I experienced my first Japanese tea ceremony. I found out that I sometimes can follow a conservation with body language and lot of words like "intresting" or "no" or "repeat". So actually I maybe understand 2 percent of the talking. But hey its more than nothing! Later at the day I met family of my Girlfriend. There also was lots of Japanese and a little bit teaching English :D There I also wished to know more Japanese. After greeting, hobbys , job and talking about weather my Japanese is over. But it's a good training to be forced a little bit to try to speak. Yeah and today my childhood dream from long ago got true. I was in a real Pokémon Center! It's funny that those shops really can exist here^^ And now I do what I always do. After I was at a café I fo...