24 ~ 28/7/23

TABOU

Haven't posted for nearly a week! Time for a quick overview!

24/7/23
Whole day went into resting from the party last night, actually woke up at gogo niji.

25/7/23
Today after school went looking for ZIP Graphics. The place where my host-father works. After walking around for 2 hours and passing through some streets for the fourth time I decided to swallow the bitter defeat and head back home.

26/7/23
Culture class was pottery. Made myself a cup worthy of the kings. For alcohol consumption, naturally. I will receive it near the end of hachigatsu.

27/7/23
Culture class was monochrome painting. What this means is that you make 5 (or more) pictures in rapid succession using enpitsu and ink brushes. Totally felt like a sweat shop in there! The sensei was pretty cool though.

Afterwards headed for another try at finding ZIP Graphics. This time managed to find it. In 5 minutes. Chilled there for some time, had ice coffee, helped them cut some stuff (yey, free workforce ^_^). Afterwards headed home in host-fathers kurume.

Of course upon reaching home I realized that the jitensha was still in the Mikunigaoka-eki so I ran to the station, took the jitensha and rode back home.
Sports-HOO~

28/7/23
This morning figured out how to use the nihongo keyboard on my iPhone. Win.

Today for culture class visited the Yuusentei Japanese Garden. AMAZING place, check the syashin!

On the bus ride back me and Hiro-chan fell asleep. The heat is a dangerous thing!

*PICTURES BE HERE [later]*

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NIHONGO

The nihonjin use '~' instead of '-' because when using katakana then '-' extends the letter (カ [ka] vs カ- [kaa])

In hiragana to accomplish this you have to get creative. For example the title of this post: 'tabou' is written as 'たぼう' but you don't actually pronounce the 'う' [u], you just make the 'o' sound longer.
Another example would be 'sensei', you do NOT pronounce the 'i', it's there only to make the 'e' sound twice as long.

Also another important thing to know is that nihongo has no capital letters and spaces.

'Tabou' - 'Busy; overwhelmed with work'
'Gogo' - 'PM'
'Ni' - 'Two'
'Ji' - 'Hour'
'Hachigatsu' - 'August'
'Kurume' - 'Car'
'Syashin' - 'Photo'