ダニエルの冒険

I registered at the city hall today. First I went to Seiyu to get some photos and I picked up some cups, saucers and cutlery while I was there. I got the train from Okazaki to Naka-Okazaki (”Central Okazaki”), walked to the station next door, Okazaki-Koen-Mae-Eki (”Station in front of Okazaki park”, literally), then got the train from there to Higashi-Okazaki (”East Okazaki”), where a walk of about ten minutes across the river and down the road leads to the city hall. (more…)

I’ve been researching getting a mobile phone recently and it’s proving quite a difficult thing to do. Here’s the information I have so far…
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I did my entrance test this morning. I was a bit worried about forgetting how to write kanji, but it turns out that I didn’t have to do that at all. Just like the JLPT, it was multiple choice. All the sections were pretty easy and didn’t use any kanji, just hiragana and katakana. Then the last section was really hard, with lots of kanji and difficult grammar. Just as with my exams in university, I was the first one out and was brought upstairs for my interview. First I went into a classroom with this really tall, very pretty teacher and she went through the questionnaire I’d filled out (name, years spent studying, reasons for studying Japanese, objectives over the term, etc) while one of my favourite Ghibli films played on a TV. I couldn’t hear it well so when she left the room for a minute I adjusted my watch for Sony (code: 7) and brought it up a little bit. I got to watch the first few minutes of the film and she had to drag me away from it for the interview.
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