Again? That’s what I thought when the majority of my class mates decided on Kawagoe. I’ve been there already two times, first on my own and then with another class (at my suggestion!). Kawagoe is also known as 小江戸 (little Edo) and is a good place to see traditional houses of wealthy merchants. One can also find lots of candy shops Japanese candy which is not neccessarily sweet.
I guess these are the first words in German language on this blog. They translate to “You speak German very well!”. What made this sentence strange is that I was at the receiving end of it! How come? I booked my last big trip for this year’s vacation and I sat next to an elderly man who curiously looked at my Japanese books.
So then he started talking and after talking with me for a while, he said “Ihr Deutsch ist sehr gut!”.
Um, thank you?
Of course he intended it as a compliment especially for not having a foreign accent. Phew, I guess that avoiding a lengthy stay in a Japanese village and avoiding dancing with wolves paid off 
One of the programs I seldomly use is Skype. It’s not a bad program but it makes more sense if you’ve got some people to talk to 
Today the program came in very handy because I had asked Wye-Khe, mastermind and organiser of the Tokyo Movie Lovers meetup group if we could use Skype instead of the normal phone. It’s not only cheaper but it’s actually more convenient since someone in this area thought that putting a pay phone near a busy street is a splendid idea. Wye-Khe is a cool guy and has a Yen for movies of all kinds – he even has some knowledge of German cinema (probably more than I have).
Still I’m very excited to see Spiderman 3 on the 1st of May. The first day of each month is the day when movie tickets are cheaper.
I still need a few things for school, like, a school uniform Nah, one of the things I should bring with me are five passport photos which shouldn’t be too old. In the chaos before my departure I forgot to make them (which isn’t very hard since many train stations in Hamburg have a photo machine or two). Luckily, I found one in the neighbour ward (Kita-ku). There was a single sentence in English on the machine’s front saying something like “you need photos for your alien registration card”. ‘though a drawing would be way cooler, hehe . Obviously the machine itself spoke no English but the illustrations were pretty obvious. Still, I sat there hoping that I didn’t choose the wrong option.
After receiving my photos I walked to the supermarket. Although there are more shops closed on Sunday, the supermarkets (and the Conbinis) are open. There were more people shopping today but I managed to find a few neccessities (like my low-fat milk, I cannot survive breakfast without milk).
The internet was offline for a few hours. It always goes off at the wrong time, I suppose. It started working again at 8 pm so I can update my blog again.
Tomorrow is the talk with the school, exciting exciting!
In the night I watched Rank Oukoku a strange ranking show where they ask several Japanese women various questions. The chart show is a mixture of normal (like best-selling Manga) and not-so-normal (“A female worker for cabaret club”) charts. The hosts are a young woman and a CGI character.
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