19/7/23

ZEN

Nothing remarkable happened in school apart from finding out that another classmate is leaving. 3 people out of 6 are of the original 6 with me, soon there will be only 2 left. It's awesome because I get to meet new people all the time!

For culture we had Zanzen Meditation in Hakata. The Buddhist priest was very awesome, the building was very awesome. I feel awesome. Totally should return there (and they said it's okay).






WALK HOME WITH ME

18/7/23

UMI NO HI

Today is the national holiday called 'Umi no Hi' or 'Marine Day'. Basically every third monday of July is when everybody take a day off and visit the beach - it's Summer afterall! BUT! Today's weather was, like I estimated, cold, rainy and windy. Of course cold here means it's near 30 degrees but at least I don't feel like I'm boiling alive.

Took the chance to work on my Nihongo vocabulary and Hiragana, starting to feel pretty good about my skill level, hopefully I will soon master Hiragana.

Miki also told me the reason why the weather is like that: apparently there's going to be a hurricane (or 'Taifoon/Taifuun' like the Japanese and Estonians call it) and the train schedules are different 'due to the danger'. Sounds like fun!

17/7/23

HETARE

Pretty lazy day once again... woke up this morning, decided to play a computer game for an hour. Ended up playing for seven.
Then took my jitensha for a spin on the neighbourhood and ate dinner.
Hopefully tomorrow will be chutto more productive!

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'Hetare' - 'Incompetent, lazy'
'Jitensha' - 'Bicycle'

15/7/23 ~ 16/7/23

NATSU

Friday was pretty typical school day, afterwards hanged out with Hiro-chan in Fukuoka.
On Saturday Hiro-san parents were here and I got to show off my SUGOI Nihongo skills; pretty lazy day, enjoyed a great amount of ice and ice coffee, the Summer season is now fully here in Fukuoka!
Also began writing this blog.

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'Sugoi' - 'Amazing'
'Nihongo' - 'Japanese language'
'Natsu' - 'Summer'

14/7/23

TEMPURA

During the lunchbreak ordered myself two bowls of tempura. OISHII! But chutto too much!
The culture lesson was... cooking. Pretty simple and oishii. But chutto too much!

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'Chutto' - 'A little'

13/7/23

BUDDHA

Visited another temple for the culture class. The temple had a huge Buddha statue and art about the Buddhist hell.

12/7/23

AOI

For culture class we had Calligraphy! We exercised writing our names in Katakana, made our Kanji name stamps and even produced a Kanji piece of calligraphy ('Aoi' - 'Love').
The sensei was very nice and praised my looks and beautiful eyes, shame that she was well over 60...