day 11 - a whole load of nothing

14/06/07 15:05
i have reached the next station on my trip. this time it took me back to osaka, to a family named sakamoto. mami accompanied me here this morning, after had packed my stuff. so far i have only met the mother and the grandparents. father and son are still at large. she seems nice enough, though. the house is alright, i`m in the son`s learning room or something. because there really hasnt happened much, i`ll share some oddities with you. the cars for example. i`ve seen and been in a lot of them now. i`d cut my initial estimate of 90% white cars down to 50% with anothert 20% of light gray and beige cars. still, while they have all the same japanese companies we have, subaru, toyota, mitsubishi, mazda (matsuda really), ... the models are not the same at all. the first tendency of japanese cars is that they look bulky or whatever the word is. they`re not round and smooth and stylish like modern cars in europe (japanese fabricates included!). they`re like boxes. 90 degree angles everywhere. and they have more bigger suv-like cars than we have. those are bit rounder sometimes but still strange. and basically egvery car is an automatic. seriously, i`d say i was in 15 different cars now and all were automatics.