Now, Japan is well known, the country with the strangest habits. Almost everyone connects with Japan green motorcycles, girls in Victorian dress ischn, school uniforms and small, pretty girl. Moreover, they drive on the left.
But I will not report about it actually. Things from my everyday life could actually be much more interesting, because this is Japan-live. Although not common ...
Japan is a safety-loving country. There is no construction site where at least one-man (or alternatively, occasionally a woman) is that lights with a plastic rod that night, waving to the right one to have gone. It might well be so limited and the obvious do not see. Everything is possible! Therefore we will in this country simply to any construction site is a living male. This should enable the risk of drowning in a tsunami, are far greater than being run over by an excavator.
Nevertheless, a few weeks ago, when it was raining again (damn rainy season!) I am a naturally runtergepurzelt unsecured stairs. The railing was also-ran and it was so incredibly smooth that an American woman behind me made a start. Even as I asked if everything is ok with her, she laid me long. Now, my rear end got a great color and I'm in shock richer (and several bruises).
In Germany is one full year with 18 and can buy alcohol without problems. Usually does not even require the permit (unless you have such a butthead like me, then one will be at 22 asked for the card to buy a Becks). Here in Japan you are of legal age with 20 (yes, even though Japanese people all look so young and we Westerners for the Japanese so old, I must also think to show their passports!). No problem. However
Annika told me that she finally had to show for a bottle of sparkling water to their identification. Mix with sparkling water (called "soda") alcohol, and the only reason why the seller has to go but certain that Annika is really really been 20, even if it has only 4 bottles of mineral water are on the counter.
saying that she understood only after 3 attempts, the woman her water sold only if they proved their age ...
The said problem-bottle. come as a cat lover, I especially in the parks in Japan at my expense, because there are wild cats are here in abundance. A plague? I think not. Then be so much of the noise killer again not. I play regularly with a certain anonymous cat family in a cardboard box, where it is actually quite great.
Lately I'm also muffle the football World Cup fans become - at least as long as the detention deutshce man was on track. It started in the preliminaries (which I do not aufblieb up by 3 clock at night - this is the time of the game clock at 20.30 ...)
Left to right: Christian, ^ ^, (forgot name T_T) , Mariko public viewing in a crowded club / bar in Roppongi The Japan game against Cameroon I was with Michael and Roby, as it were a private made public viewing, Hendrick and some other German students were also there. And yes, I have permission to load this terrific video of Roby in my weblog, where he tried in vain to say a particular German word.
Then I was in a bar that makes a Japanese friend at irregular intervals. There I met interesting people. An American, half Japanese philosophy students, who wanted to be clear in these vacation in Japan, what he wants to become the talk but little Japanese, an architect who has designed the famous Ghibli Clock, which can be seen on the Sio-Site and also a huge Gundam Wing (Anime, Manga) figure that is several feet tall and up to last year was in Odaiba. Very nice! ^ ^
Second from left is mom, my girlfriend, a friend of her (the girl left, a friend of hers), then the architect and Yuen (or how to code that is), the half-Japanese. Hilarious group
Life-size Gundam robot fighting. 
The Ghibli Clock in Shiodome, Shio Site On 4 June, I made the JLPT 2nd
Here the test-site. A university in Yokohama, which certainly never seen so many foreigners (well, Chinese, eh not to fall!) Has seen. This stands for "Japanese Language Proficiency Test" and is pretty much the only one that tests the general Japanese and is widely recognized. The 1 is the most that you certify a Japanese in where you actually all "ordinary and general professional" can understand without using a dictionary. The 2nd this is all without the Professional;)
But as I said, you SHOULD.
Here is a comment from a website:
"People who have passed Level 2 (for they do exist) go all misty-eyed when the subject of Level 1 is raised, as if talking about some mysterious holy grail that many have heard rumor of , yet remains only the stuff of legend ... "
And here is the link to, even for those who just want to get a picture of the kanji:
http://japanese.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www. kanjisite.com / html / about / joyo.html
The ultimate test to certify that you have a basic knowledge of a student's kanji ...
No wonder that was only 1 to 10 Chinese Westerners ... Was very interesting, as many Westerners as Kanji SIDN too hard xD
Otherwise, there are images in this poor blog to see something.
This very "graceful" aussehnde cattle from the country where the people are apparently only small, measured erstaunloche 7-8 centimeters and was HUGE! Ryoma, Yukiko, her friend and I are first located and have pity on our poor things from a distance ... My zoom was a close-up possible! Note cockroaches: 3 cm (at least!) Centipede: to 10 centimeters.
I want to see any Hummel!
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