Day 14 - April 2, 2008
Day 14
Unfortunately again I cant upload any pictures because I brought my camera with me but no cable to attach to the camera to upload photos :(
Well, today was somewhat of an uneventful day... I woke up at 10 am and watched some BBC thing on my laptop about cameras and camera lenses which was boring me. So I went back to bed and woke up at about 3:30 pm. I decided to go on a little walking adventure so I went to a Deo Deo store nearby my apartment to sign up for internet access with Yahoo bb (broad band). when I got there I was walking with my Japanese scribblings and all acting like I could talk Japanese...
I went in there and said `interneto Ikura deska` - which means how much is it for the internet...Now the people were all excited and started talking all kinda Japanese stuff... then I got lost... So I just had this big blank smile on my face and wondering what the heck to say now.
After about 20 minutes of them trying to understand me and me trying to understand them... they gave me the application form with pure Japanese that I not in the least understood. So I went down the road where I heard there was free internet and I ended up at the city office. No one understood what I was saying so they got a guy from the office who could speak English pretty well and he made me fill out another form that I had to fill out before I could get internet at home (I had no clue I had to do this). The process he said might take in total about a month... I will get 2 months free of internet though... I was supposed to fill out this form b4 I can fill out the other one that I got at Deo Deo (a good ting mi did come yah suh) ....well any way the man showed me where I could access the free internet (which is where I am now). He signed me up and now I have my membership card and my name printed on it in hiragana.... Oh if you didn't know Japanese has 4 different sets alphabets:
1) hiragana - old Japanese
2) Kanji - Chinese symbols
3) Katakana - modern Japanese used for modern words like internet etc
4) Romanji - Romanization of Japanese - Pretty much our Roman alphabets that we use now
Yes these are not easy to learn at all...
so when I got home after a 15 minutes walk..the ALT who brought me around told me _I had meetings with my 5 schools tomorrow...you will hear more about that On day 15...likkle more...dem a lock up di place yah now....
Unfortunately again I cant upload any pictures because I brought my camera with me but no cable to attach to the camera to upload photos :(
Well, today was somewhat of an uneventful day... I woke up at 10 am and watched some BBC thing on my laptop about cameras and camera lenses which was boring me. So I went back to bed and woke up at about 3:30 pm. I decided to go on a little walking adventure so I went to a Deo Deo store nearby my apartment to sign up for internet access with Yahoo bb (broad band). when I got there I was walking with my Japanese scribblings and all acting like I could talk Japanese...
I went in there and said `interneto Ikura deska` - which means how much is it for the internet...Now the people were all excited and started talking all kinda Japanese stuff... then I got lost... So I just had this big blank smile on my face and wondering what the heck to say now.
After about 20 minutes of them trying to understand me and me trying to understand them... they gave me the application form with pure Japanese that I not in the least understood. So I went down the road where I heard there was free internet and I ended up at the city office. No one understood what I was saying so they got a guy from the office who could speak English pretty well and he made me fill out another form that I had to fill out before I could get internet at home (I had no clue I had to do this). The process he said might take in total about a month... I will get 2 months free of internet though... I was supposed to fill out this form b4 I can fill out the other one that I got at Deo Deo (a good ting mi did come yah suh) ....well any way the man showed me where I could access the free internet (which is where I am now). He signed me up and now I have my membership card and my name printed on it in hiragana.... Oh if you didn't know Japanese has 4 different sets alphabets:
1) hiragana - old Japanese
2) Kanji - Chinese symbols
3) Katakana - modern Japanese used for modern words like internet etc
4) Romanji - Romanization of Japanese - Pretty much our Roman alphabets that we use now
Yes these are not easy to learn at all...
so when I got home after a 15 minutes walk..the ALT who brought me around told me _I had meetings with my 5 schools tomorrow...you will hear more about that On day 15...likkle more...dem a lock up di place yah now....
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