ダニエルの冒険

I went to Zig Zag about 30 minutes before the ceremony started and ate a delicious ham and cheese toasted sandwich, prepared for me by the lovely Junko-san. Yumi-san, a lady working in the Student Services office was with her, chatting at the bar. Zig Zag itself is tiny, but has an impressively sizeable bar, a large plasma TV, and a few guitars. It’s also really really warm inside, but that didn’t stop Junko complain about it being cold. Japanese are always cold! Anyway, I spoke to the two of them for a while and got my usual surprised reactions when doing my usual game of “guess what age I am” and telling them “no I’m not 29″, “no I’m not 24″, “no I’m not 22″, “I’m actually 20″, “… eeeeee~~!”. And a similar reaction when I explained that I used to be over 100kg before my 「砂糖無しダイエット」 (no-sugar diet, in Japanese) and spent a while with Yumi trying to tell Junko that she doesn’t need to lose weight. Yumi had to go back to work 10 minutes before the ceremony began so I had some time to speak to Junko and she really is a very nice girl. As I said, there are a couple of guitars (and a ukulele) there, and she said it was alright to play them if I wanted to, so I quickly went through me entire repertoire in that time. If I play again, there’s not going to be anything new to be heard. I’m really looking forward to going back tomorrow.

There are plenty of Americans and a couple of English around, and even those who aren’t have some level of english, but a Taiwanese girl I was sitting beside, Niko, had very good Japanese and it was nice to talk to another student in Japanese, though we didn’t have a chance to say much.

During the ceremony we all sat in a lecture hall (階段教室: “the stairs classroom”, probably because each row of seats is elevated above the row ahead of it) and the staff introduced themselves. Then they got all the students to introduce themselves! A couple of people told some jokes and I got a laugh when I described my hobbies as “things which aren’t sports”. Then the guy beside me proceeded to say his hobby is soccer.

Well, I’m going to try to locate the cinema and ponder getting a phone again. I think I might just go with the €200 for au. I have the money, it’ll be a nice souvenir which I can use when I come back here in a few years or whenever, and I’m terrified of leaving Okazaki and trying to meet someone without one.