Good morning, everyone. It is currently 12:08 in Kumamoto and I start to sum up my weekend. So I'm starting
now with the typhoon, which we have been predicted for Friday. It is the night finally arrived with us and rages just out there with incredible amounts of water in our house. Since I am from Germany but now once I am used to such quantities of water from an autumn storm, and actually look a little disappointed down the road, not even under water. Since I had I expected more of a typhoon, especially judging by the wind that swept through the streets yesterday, and has even blown my bag along with my pack toast off the table.
Let us therefore more pleasing on the subject before I go back to doing my homework, this weekend is definitely too much of my time is taken up (apart from the three tests next week): Nomikai.
Nomikai drink is a Japanese term for a meeting around a walk. The term is composed of the verb "nomu" and the noun attachment "kai" for meetings. Nomikai is usually made by companies, but sometimes by groups of like-minded, such as private associations.
It began Friday after the lunch break as we at the entrance of the dining hall consisting of a group gathered from our two Britons and two Frenchmen. Normally we do not have much contact with them. Mathieu is sitting next to me in class sometimes (almost always in total Japanese, Reading and Conversation) and I've actually always understood well with him. He is a very keen (if he has not exactly gone through the night and almost asleep on his documents) Type, very sociable and so communicative as we know the French.
As we left the cafeteria, the British and French rushed immediately to John, who has little contact with them more than us girls. It took only a handful decided to generally words long, was that John was to come that night with the scheduled Nomikai, without having been asked to really consent. However, he was immediately agreed and so the three boys and one girl rushed immediately to Marijke, and Sarah asked me and us (in fact, they actually ask us) whether we wanted to come too. Sarah and Marijke were immediately here, but I envisioned the list of homework and vocabulary, which had to be handled at the weekend.
But anyone who knows Nadav (the second French) will tell me that one can not simply say to him "no." When I then Matt (the British) told me to be yet time socializing with them, because I just could not agree more. Although I have only said that I would come along, probably, but this alone was probably a "yes" and to be honest I had no intention to change that.
Here I must, however, a small Zwichengeschichte insert, for which I definitely could not say "no", as Matt attaches itself (bastard, he knew exactly what he had to make choice of words!). In particular, a misunderstanding between us and Matt German girls. Some time ago, Matt came to us on the path towards home and greeted us in German, so what we threw out the idea that we not only in Japanese instead of English responded but also the time of the day by throwing each other and returned complete nonsense. We then had to laugh, what Matt was referring to, however, and henceforth to speak to us was pretty bad, but which escaped us.
John spoke to me a few days but on the whole thing and told me that Matt felt personally attacked. So it was my job to him Thursday after the first hour (Kanji) to catch him and to tell the story. He seemed really happy to get this thing turned out as a misunderstanding and thanked him that I had come to him and apologized. So I really could not help but to come along Nomikai, as Matt said so openly, that he would like to get to know us more closely.
Back to what Nomikai.
met at 9:30 in the evening we reserve building D with the other exchange students and were flabbergasted to see that were gathered almost all the residents of Block C and D, except for the Koreans, the Vietnamese and a few Chinese. Overall, we were (I forgot Nadav, Mathieu, Marion, Marie-Laure and whose name I -.-)
Two British (Cathy and Matt)
Five French German
Four (Marijke, Sarah, John and I)
Four Chinese (Raion (my roommate) and three others that I do not know)
A Polish woman (Alicja, our "leader")
We drove by bus to downtown and we actually had the entire bus for us. On the way to the bar we met another group of foreigners studying most likely at another university here in Kumamoto (I think there are two private universities here). We also asked a group Sarariman (salarymen, company employees) to take a group photo of us, which was again a very funny affair. Furthermore, we met by chance on the way a Japanese man with whom we have an English-Japanese course on Japanese social phenomena and who joined with his friend of our group. When we arrived at the bar and our table next to a large group Sarariman and OLs (Office Lady, the female counterpart to the revenues salarymen) who welcomed us all happy and pretty drunk, joined our group, still a young woman who had studied in Leeds. Insagesamt so we were 19 people.
The glasses we got were, beer mugs, which we ourselves filled with a mixture of vodka-Cola, which we periodically (which was definitely too long) were brought to the table. I think I do not need to mention that we were pretty drunk afterwards and we had hell of a lot of fun because the entire group consists of very nice people with whom I definitely would like to continue to have contact. I'm really glad that We are fortunate to be able to study with such nice people for a year. The most interesting thing I think we all speak is always a mixture of English and Japanese, and that almost all understand that (except Marilou, who speaks only English and French and Chinese as well as Marion and the other French, who speak again only Japanese).
The Nomikai ended at 1 clock at night and we went to a bar, to which, however, not all followed. The cash group still consisted of all the French, the Chinese, Matt, a Japanese, Marijke and me. Thanks to Nadav's very convincing persuasion we even got a discount and only had to pay 500yen admission and were for even a free drink. Hail Nadav ^ ^
first it was for us to dance. The DJ was really good for a while on it (not later) and played a lot of good music and we mixed in the Japanese, the concentrated Gaijin Power had put up little counter, and instead stood on the edge of the circle we had formed and looked slightly silly. As Nadav and Mathieu can dance pretty well and that also impressed us, the two began fairly quickly so, an alternate take of us in the middle of the circle, where they had to dance with our cheers and applause at the two. This, in turn, the Japanese seemed to find interesting and again mingled with strangers Japanese (only Men) danced with and among us. They found it quite reluctant, however, if they themselves had to dance with Nadav and Mathieu, just because there was no girl in the middle. The two Frenchmen, the course identified anything that danced with a man or a woman have;)
began when the DJ to play only funny things to drink, we went a little, talked again with strangers Japanese, went dancing again and had become final in the karaoke section, to flee when a Japanese man tried to teach me to dance (he could dance very well, but I am unable ...).
In the karaoke section, then tried both of our Goofy Koeppe of service to a Chinese song To sing about what it was, that she bawled the French national anthem. Dragged the Japanese found the whole thing quite strange, but apparently he thought the casual crap, we frittered away, but to please in some way. By 4 clock then they threw us out of the room and we decided to go home.
This plan was, however, had a good half hour (maybe more) and delayed by Matt Marion, who found a kebab shop around the corner and had to buy a deal. Further conversations with strangers Japanese in the street outside the club and with the reception of the club also contributed to delays. Finally, we ran
walk home, discovered on the way a gecko on a wall, ran past a large Buddhist temple and decided instead to go straight home to make a detour over the mountain peaks and the local cemetery. Since re-spun a part of us stayed, finally just left Mathieu, Nadav, Marijke, I and three Chinese. The road to the summit led to a pitch-dark path and a very much darker woods. It is amazing how dark it is in Japan. Throughout the smog in the air is actually not as good as moonlight through the forest and you could not see his hand before his eyes. But then
was the view over the city at night from the cemetery beautiful and we were annoyed that none of us had brought a camera. And no sooner had we arrived at the residence halls, Nadav was already planning another idea: Let us go more quickly to the shrine, we were not yet. This was the Chinese will definitely too long and we moved on only five of us, visited the shrine, climbed the hill with the cemetery and then back up to see the early sunrise, and came first for the night a little to rest, as we watched the sunrise.
Unfortunately, then came the search for Matt and Nadav, who had in the meantime to look for an even better vantage point and were untraceable now. When we had finally found it on the other side of the mountain, we had to run back down the mountain (the slope of the street was so extreme that we could not stretch our knees straight but slightly bent and had to carefully walk down the street).
And whom it is now even more surprised that we as a somewhat larger temple on the station in Kurokami passed, Nadav suggested that we could still easily see the temple from the inside? That was certainly the point at which we parted and Marijke, Mathieu and I went home alone.
When I finally arrived at my apartment was almost exactly 7 o'clock in the morning.
Finally I can only say that the evening by far the funniest since arriving in Kumamoto was and that's saying something, because I've had a lot of fun here. I met the other exchange students better, something made with one of my roommates and making new friends. And sake (Japanese rice brandy) tastes sickening! : P
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