day 27 - ich nicht sprechen deutsche sprache

30/06/2007 23:05
another hot day. but oh so different. today i had to get up pretty early (compared to my usual standards), at 8 am. scheduled was a visit to yokohama`s zoo. i didn`t spend the day with my host katou-san, instead i went with another guy, hayashi-san. he is the one who my father`s friend got in contact with and he planned and organized my entire stay here. in other words - he`s the man! and he`s got a cool goatee. we drove on the subway for about an hour and got off at a station where we were supposed to meet a young guy. i don`t know the exact relation, but his father seems to be with the ymca or something. anyway, and here comes the awesome part, this guy has lived 14 of his 20 years in berlin. he`s supposedly better in german than in japanese (well, i can`t place his japanese skills which were higher than mine by a lot, but judging from his german i hope that`s not true). his name is keisuke btw... so he came and i spoke my first real german sentences (guten tag, dankeschoen and oktoberfest do not count) since almost a month now. and what can i say, it was kinda hard. i really wasn`t used to german sentence structure etc. anymore. it`s hard to describe the felling, really, but it took about half an hour to get back into normal conversatory german. anyway, keisuke was nice and we had a lot to talk about. the zoo was tough because of the heat, even the animals couldn`t be bothered to leave the shade or move or whatever animals are supposed to do in a zoo. i saw an okapi thoug, apparently the zoo`s most famous animal, and some strange kind of llama-horse-zebra hybrid model. keisuke and me asked hayashi-san to go to a game center and we played there for a little while. awesome stuff like time crisis 3 and house of the dead. then we left for some small branch of the yokohama ymca, where a staff member showed us around and we watched some kids practice karate. in the evening we went to a kaitenzushi place (remember, the kind where the food comes on moving trays and you take it off as it passes you by). now i`m back at the house and are once more doomed to speak japanese only. it`s nto that bad, though. 23801. and 30 name cards.