Monday, October 25, 2010

How Does Tay Sachs Work

Subsequent reporting IV: At Home in Berlin

home ... I felt in Iwate and Tokyo. Nevertheless, I do not want to miss my home in Berlin. Again, I needed some re-adjustment period, but also is in the main areas now have been a good thing. When shopping or train went on, I can still occasionally smile at myself when I catch myself as I am as excessive for a reasonably large and reasonably affordable package mushrooms inspire . Or, if I'm on the train at the door and persistently and innocent, waiting for that it opens up, until they finally use a passenger waiting outside just in time doing.

But that does everything and kind feelings, and could not stop long enough. It would be nice only it would be less cold. The cold has withdrawn the attention of even the Berlin dog waste, to me two years ago, coming home in the truest sense, had been particularly difficult. This time, let me that, in turn, literally, cold. Now my only consolation is my oasis, my friend and most in his absence, our neighbor, always smiling have maintained meticulously and raised. Occasionally I've even reports of newly "hatched" avocado trees, the well-being of our balcony flowers or the progress of all the other plants I had planted before I left to get. The first few days after my return from Spain, so I have spent my zurückzuerkämpfen the love of my plants. I have repotted them all and they secured a place in the sun, uh, heating. Of course I also have the seeds from the English holiday in their respective private Fruchtzwerge greenhouses on the Heating planted. Now again waiting is announced. Even the last subsequent report is hereby written so that there is now no more excuses. Not too quickly I grab the next tasks on the way through and at the end of the course. Perhaps it is expecting to report about it, even against exciting. Then I will do that. Overall, I want to tell me but again less and more of exciting experiences, so it is not contemptible.


Saturday, October 23, 2010

Blueprints For Green Egg Table

Subsequent reporting III: breathe in Spain

Just when we arrived, Spain also began in the fall, so that one could not have breakfast every morning on the terrace. For a birthday party outdoors and it was long enough for walking, tanning and doing nothing. Moreover, it was warm enough to Nachstress-cold, which I had taken time somewhere between Tokyo, Berlin and Madrid, quickly get rid of. As I for my final exams in art history, with Japan not had time for a Nachstress-cold, I had to postpone that and could now do two at once. Better and more efficient Erkältetsein one can hardly imagine so.

After 5 days, when I dragged my body is still quite a chore around, everything was back as it should and we have day trips to Granada and in smaller towns in the area . make After 8 days, it was fundamentally restored back to Berlin, where I freeze since then, and discourages me from working legally sent. The results of the Ablenkarbeiten tomorrow. Here, first a few impressions from Spain: fair with regular servings of white nougat, familiar faces and churches, Granada with the friendly dogs from the neighborhood, churches and Castles, Competa, the small mountain town, with churches, picturesque restaurants and cafes as well as seed models.



Thursday, October 21, 2010

Hallee Hirsh Facebook

Subsequent reporting II: Marathon to Spain

On Tuesday morning after little sleep and a good preparation for the final interview, so the marathon began to Spain. Here's how: up, ready to pack package iron, to the post office to pay a bill, order by calling the package pick-up service for the evening, print the preparations in the Convenience Store, both in parliament, talk, then farewells in some offices up and down in the Parliamentary Library . The day before, namely the copying of the last article in another library had failed because its book was not on the shelf. Then, how should it be otherwise, angry, that just on the last day the daft library copy, with its nutty Copy Right Policy, only half of the required paper was prepared - Of course still for 25 yen per page. So desperate two foreigner approached, asked for help and together unsuccessfully tried to borrow the book just votes with half-copied part essay on the identity of the friendly Swiss people to have it copied the second half. Finally, I received the offer, the second half later copied and sent by mail to get - well, this terrible Library promotes charity among the least suffering users. So a thousand thanks and be injected, because I still had the best shopping and party abdendliche arrive before the first guests at home. Therefore, more equal: Shopping for a cooking party with 10 guests - in the end it would have been enough for 20, but my roommate has been looking forward to the rest of the food - in time to arrive with shopping bags at the station, to pick up the first guest and to control my sweet home. There, see that it is not self-evident that my roommate the mousse au chocolat, which he wanted as charming final sponsor for the evening, but it should please be ready before I needed to cook the kitchen. So, a cooking camp in the open dining room, in between Friends pick up again from the station, then a fairly large mess cook, drink wine and talk with friends who had arrived one by one. I had not even time looked for changing clothes and in my room from it, as if a bomb hit, since the time I had planned to pack up between shopping and visiting the last dry clothes and the rest of the stuff in the suitcase was so all spent in the library. The room I was shown and so do not suit and blouse, I can just overwhelm me with compliments. Everything bad semi Sun But since I had not forgotten what? Yes, the package, on its completion early in the morning I pack Yes so was proud and which is now in full bloom in the doorway of his pickup was waiting. The Japanese post office, which I love to praise, disappointed me this time. ... Phone ... "Good day, this is the package service! I want you to pick up a package. I am there in 20 minutes. Is that ok? " ... as if it were not already great enough that you can order the morning pick up at night between 19 und 21 clock ... "Yes please" ... twenty minutes later ... nice post man at the door, I got to package, package without parcel, nice post man parcel ... "Here, you know how to fill the need? "" Yeah. "" Good. But I have still much to do and if you do not mind, I would seek other customers in the meantime and come back at 20.30 clock. I hope you understand this! " ... Understanding?? ... "Of course, thank you very much!" So fill in the silence between cooking and drinking guests the note and after a second call, and another 15 minutes, package, package labels, borrowed pen and the amount - collection free of course - handed over to the nice gentlemen. The next time I record a video for the German post office. But enough of that. Meanwhile, the iron by holding workers finished everything in the kitchen and we could cover the table to eat, and celebrate more comfortable. As for a nice evening to have the two guests who stayed over night, all on the way home, was finally time to pack and clean up, while the nice roommate and the two SCRAPBOOK ste the remains disposed of in the kitchen. Finally, the three of plum wine in the evening Round off and fell asleep quickly, because the next morning a friend had time to college and I to the airport. wash up, sleep, breakfast, nor beautiful, bedding, by eye, removing the last traces and of course showers, so the university and the airline we would let in too. GO! The 25-pound box of course the gentleman (the second friend) carried down the stairs and dragged to the station. Then on alone to the airport, check in, last emails, the first tears fall onto the plane, dry tears and the average 5.5 hours of sleep increase of the last three weeks on the nearly 12 hour flight a little. 12.30 Clock departure, 17.30 arrival clock in Frankfurt, 19.00 clock on to Hamburg, because my flight was booked so during the sports exchange. 20.00 clock arrival, on to the Dammtor, certainly not without replacement bus service, and from the train to Berlin. Arrival at 23.00 clock, luggage there, understanding and responsibility to the next gentleman passed and half asleep homecoming down. Home immediately unpack the suitcase and half for further processing for the English case again ready. Packing together in the same case has taken over again the gentleman, while I fell into bed after a shower. Breakfast in the morning to get up and go to the airport, noon to Madrid, then while away the four hours of waiting time as firmly resolved not, but beautiful drive through the city. Then to be picked up by a last connecting flight in Malaga and fall after 45 minutes by car again to bed. And so the three months were over Japan, almost gone in a flash. Anyone who knows me, knows how good I felt in the adventure and associated stress in recent weeks and the last day. That's right ... a fiddle! And over the deserved breath I will report tomorrow.



THANK YOU!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Age Of Empires First Generation

Subsequent reporting I: The last weeks in Japan

I'm back! On 06 October, I am back in Berlin, but did not remain long, as at 08 October celebrated the mom of my friend a special birthday, so we had no other choice than to spend a few warm days in Spain. I owe to the diligent readers are in for the account of my last few weeks, the last night and last morning in Japan, the Home and Away, stretching out in Spain and the proper homecoming. But since the scene does not fit into a post, I try to split the next four days. A good opportunity to work in front of . Press


The last few weeks in Japan have exceeded all expectations. This is a good thing! My stay in Tokyo was finally the literature search and information gathering dedicated to my thesis. Since I fortunately was able to win a scholarship, the pressure rose dramatically and of course with the dawn of the last month I became increasingly nervous and uncertain about the realization of my goals. The literature search was, but under the circumstances described, a relatively slow and tiring. My second major goal came during talks with younger members of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). This seemed in principle easier than it sounds now, as I did two years ago about happy coincidences and great support from friends from the sports exchange in the Iwate insight into the life of the office Mr Ozawa Ichiro was granted. That sounds a lot less now turn to spectacular, if you do not know that Ichiro Ozawa, or perhaps one of the most influential politicians of the current Japanese political world. Anyway, I've already prepared a few months ago my contacts that I need further support. At first everything went well. Contact, feedback, that would be taken care of talk to, and then be patient. If Ichiro Ozawa would have not only considered to stand as candidate for election as party chairman. The leader of the DPJ has been a change of government at the same time Japanese Prime Minister and one can imagine that the office Ozawa Ichiro suddenly had rather less time to take care of my concerns. I became increasingly nervous. Would have a response ? Come What if he becomes prime minister, and what if not? The former I can not answer, but in the latter case, the story is at least good for me. Ichiro Ozawa is quite clearly failed in the attempt, Kan Naoto from the post of prime minister to replace. And a few days later, completely unexpectedly got a call and the first appointment could be arranged. Ozawa's office and especially my first talked to then positioned so for me to stuff that I'm in almost three weeks come to only 13 calls. In the first 3 days I am in the morning to the office, have one or two calls out, I passed the time in the office with follow-up, conducted one or two or three calls or get dates for the next day, then in the library of the ICU (International Christian University) down and to 22.00 clock preparations for the next day made and printed. In the second week I spent the first few days in the library, always on call. The last three days I'm back in the morning to the office, have discussions and post processes taken, then friends met - the time was running out and the friends that I wanted to take before departure or, more and more - then homecoming down, washed and blouses made late into the night preparing for the next day, slept, got up, ironed and finally get rid of. The dates were also earlier and earlier, as also urged for the talks, the time, and the dedicated young members had therefore put himself in the morning at 9:00 clock time for me. When I already thought to have had my last conversation was on Monday afternoon, two days before departure date and even a phone call on Tuesday morning clean. The House of Representatives wanted I always have, but the hours I needed now to prepare, I had actually been scheduled for packing suitcases. However, since not wash at the continuing rain, dried, this plan would in any case fell into the water. And so began after a long time, but preparation and short sleep eight on Tuesday morning of the marathon to Spain, from which But I'll talk tomorrow. The research could stay in any case already be seen on Monday as successful, and only waiting for a more or less round end. Just before the evaluation of the discussions, I express myself more, by writing Live Journal entries. In Moreover, I am pleased with the many comments in conversations, but also one or the other comment would be appreciated here in the Journal no less.


Tuesday, October 12, 2010

What Does Right Shoulder Pain Mean

SUPPLEMENT! I know the only way! (Episode II: The Library)

other day I used the university library of the University of Tokyo and thought when I saw the many books on the shelves, I would finally do that one again with a normal library. The day before that I no longer in the library that was because the registration for non-university visitors (passport) is possible only until 17.00 clock and I was there only at 17.15 clock because I knew, that the library until the day 22:00 Clock would have had open, I will already have to be suspicious.

Most books are not on the shelf, but in the magazine, but here you could order 5 books simultaneously and these were then immediately taken from the magazine. Sadly, of course, that is also done in the most prestigious university in Japan no conversion from paper to digital data processing and one must therefore always write good title, signature and any band. It goes on it some time, you think, if one was not copied.

But that was my real goal of the library visit, because I knew that I do there for only 10 yen and completely independent copy. So books and magazines under his arm and go. Copy card now, I know! Copier mark, me! But wait! What is there? FORMS! "Must be completed if you copy magazines or books," Control of the articles under my arm: magazines, books! So: title, call number, volume, page numbers, write down! First magazine mentioned, registered second magazine (especially the page numbers are annoying), looked up ... How well the young man simply copied? Perhaps already filled? ... Third magazine registered .... And the woman? Maybe I prefer to ask the two employees who sit around there with the copiers, whether the form is really meant for my needs. "Yes, that must be filled!" So, made the fourth and fifth entry, and then submit the completed form carefully with the ladies. "No, no, you must then put in the box!" "In the box?" "In the box!" THE BOX! In addition to the forms is a BOX! Whispers quasi! Short looked to the left and right, if someone looks, ... nobody! Not even the two ladies at the copiers. But now that I've filled out the paper so well, I put it on too. And finally copy. In the next few books I was then also to those who simply copy and beschmunzeln the people who are uncertain as to the form and fill out their forms carefully. But that happened in the next 3 visits to the library only once. In branch libraries, in which one is to copy the list down personally in hand, I was lucky enough to find, track and easy to aubzukürzen write down any page numbers.


Big Green Egg Blue Prints

Na sowas!

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Should I Use Boiled Linseed Oil On My Cricket Bat

another world in another world!

Actually, I have prejudices about the people who spend their evenings in Roppongi. Above all, foreigners are attracted to this district. Even a foreigner, it is perhaps a little arrogant at the thought to surround himself with many foreigners to turn up their nose. Finally, I have not even Japan for me alone chartered.


But among the many businessmen, spend there before all those foreigners who would like to "tow" like to Japanese women, and, accordingly, young Japanese women who like times can be towed by a foreigner. Perhaps the only prejudices are, but if you in the evening near the bars entlangschlendert the street, comes just as managed a picture. A district to be foreigners. Recently I have learned the hard lesson that there is very can be beautiful. I'm out there to meet me with a friend from Iwate and time was correct German! With a Japanese friend in tow, but it feels not so bad. How I would have you can reach the German beer garden with Hofbräuhaus and sauerkraut withheld. So we perched on the lawn, drank a White and sauerkraut eaten. AFFORDABLE no pleasure, but which had the effect that the said party people, which I'm against so many reservations that were not there. It was deposited with a very calm, harmonious atmosphere with yodelling and accordion music of the Japanese yodeler Kitagawa Sakura, which is one of the few Auslaenderinnen that received at the Lucerne Festival Jodel the highest distinction. WOW! Not that I would have irritated me as the Northern Lights do not already of yodeling in costume ... On the homepage of the beer garden can find a lovely photo. But a search on Youtube is probably very efficient. Which reminds me that I wanted to write an entry about Japanese fashion and debility. But another time First a few pictures I in have included beer garden and a walk in the area. Images that I had not expected.



How Long Before I Become Addicted To Diazepam

other day in Shinjuku ...




Thursday, September 16, 2010

Ativan And Nitroglycerin

I know of only different! (Episode II: The Library)

things of which you would think: "Sure, I know that!" which may be the worst surprises, like the warm, shallow swimming pools have proved a lot to have. The indoor pools were able to convince the way, not much more expensive, despite the promising entry.

If one is prepared by his professor, but already that the parliamentary library is not so, as we know it, it is all the more newsworthy if the shock with each visit, and again unexpectedly deep-seated.

  1. There is no WLAN. There may say: "Oh, the youth of today", but not without reason we as a student in Berlin, is in most large libraries, no matter which university, automatically on the Internet if you want, now. Literature is a flat much more effective if the same can also order information about the author, availability, pricing, reviews, etc. can research online editions, or the book of the same desire in another library. Even words can quickly find on the net and gaps in education or training whatsoever which may be filled temporarily by means of contributing to Wikipedia and reading comprehension. Not here!
  2. You can only order three books simultaneously available for inspection in the reading room and the order can be made only by the computers on site. The waiting time is 30 minutes. This leads sophisticated tactics to Order: arrive, order, look up the workplace and other needs quiet and then pick up the first load. The roads are long and eat "fortunately" some waiting time. Then, alternately always seen two books, handled returns, and accordingly ordered one or two new books / magazines, so that even in the waiting time on these, the remaining one to two books also on their content be reviewed until they too can be recycled into the flow of stupidity can. Respect for books that you want to compare with each other! You should be best at the same time at the same point in the cycle. Despatching the books "would include, if necessary actually making copies ...
  3. No self-service copying. At exactly the designated computers can / need to log in with their library card, pick one to three of the one to three books / magazines that are currently on the good side of the cycle, three times, "OK & ldquo ; press and then remove one to three notes, which are so large that one would fit all three books in one. A handwritten note on all three labels own address and then the desired page number and page number. Then the same sections with pre-shredded paper in one to three books and mark with all the junk at the right switch. There everything is checked again, agreed on the size of paper and handed one to three books. The attentive reader will have recognized that now have to leave in the worst case, all three of the three books for circulation and about 20 minutes in a black hole has disappeared. Klug is therefore the user, who also divided this operation somehow sent and incorporates into the cycle of madness, or in the 20 minutes waiting time in the 6th Stock moves and eats an ice cream. In the 6th
  4. Floor has a convenience store. In the 6th
  5. Floor there is also a kind of Mensa, but unfortunately not as tasty and quite expensive for a cafeteria. But is there also in the Berlin library, and also of variable quality. What is not there, are the three or four large flat screens, where you can track the doings of the real world, not much less insane. Actually, I stand these TVs more critical of and have first thought about disparagingly, as this creates daft tv crazy people, even in a device which is to enrich the mind thought that with superfluous Push to overload. But when I followed two days there with ice and coffee, the choice of the party leaders of the DPJ, which then is also the (possibly not popularly elected new) prime minister, in a circle of interested people, I had to revise my opinion partly .
  6. But back to the copies which would have been so be ready. 25 Yen the site! That's currently 23 cents and enough frustration for a second ice, unfortunately, not enough money. Actually the way, 25.25 yen or so, because 4 or cost 101 yen. On the other hand, are 8 pages 201 yen, so this puzzle can never be well resolved.
  7. By now the frustration also comes from before the first ice up again, because we remember that we get for 25 + yen or double-sided copies, or reductions that could help more pages to get to one. Furthermore, we see that not for 25 + yen Once the lid is closed when you copy, which means that one in small sizes (magnifications are also rejected flat rate) bear this hated huge black border must be the first, second, excellent colors and used Kö ; nnte, he would know. The stack of paper printed on one side is just so not too bad, because the copies are so expensive that people try to avoid anyway any stacking.
  8. The stacks continue to grow only with difficulty, since one of the reasons Copy Rights of longer essays and books, only half or 10 Pages at a time copy may get copied. In this case, I am so far but has not fallen since the 10 pages I can not afford anyway, and I luckily selected only shorter journal articles. But the challenge was initiated.
  9. The Parliamentary Library has almost everything. The University Libraries, unfortunately not. Moreover, these are often not publicly available, provided that you do not have a reference from their own university library, which also entered in the worst yet to which works are to be seen to be confirmed in the same breath, that they own in the library does not exist. There are exceptions, but maybe I need to on the few days left in the cycle can feed this parallel imbecility.
  10. Oh, and pictures I had of course made the carrying of cameras would be banned for fear of insidious Copy Right violation. Actually, of course, no one pays attention to what it takes in the reading room. But when I finally left the library after work and kept my MP3 player along with headphones in hand, because I had just been charged on my PC, I was called back very excited and pointed out that the driving of headphones is also prohibited. The fact that the users are really on their various characteristics (sleeping, nose lifting, Vorsichhinbrabbeln etc.) here will no longer be reported in adequate details, the sound of your PC (as in Berlin as well) are often turned off, so the melodious sound of the rattles ready operating system launched in all ears, but not interested.
  11. are probably inured most users anyway, as the cultivation, the only place where the mobile phone receives a signal that meets regularly horrible noise emitted by vehicles outside of the building proceeds, not the vehicles themselves but the people moving to this around the houses (in this case, Parliament) and by loudspeaker to shout their slogans so loud that I received under distortion can not understand. The aggressiveness of the gay slogans and marching music that sounds when the vehicle moves on at last, but suggest that they are extreme right wing. To tolerate and stay in government quarters seem obsolete by the way still, I would make a record of the daily police presence in riot gear Leave that amaze me in the few minutes' walk from the train to the library again and again into despair and can be a little irritated. I write not.
  12. Back to exit the library. Holds done. The transparent plastic bags in which we (as in Berlin as well) before entering the library fills his utensils are so fragile that one first, regardless of weight rather not plugged his laptop into such a bag, and second, leaving the library can do with it nothing better than to dispose of used up half way. Even the Japanese disposable society, I will write an entry.
  13. The
  14. leaving the library in the week already at 19.00 clock, not 10 hours after entering the library, at the earliest at 9:30 clock. On Saturday at 17:00 clock and not on Sunday.
brings me almost to the same, but otherwise absurd Grimm-center, the new university library of the Humboldt University of Berlin, like many other Hirnis great institutions and to impart a great price and a record of his architecture unpleasant to write many advantages. I do but not both.


Monday, August 30, 2010

Wizard Of Oz Ruby Slippers Tattoo

know I only different! (Episode I: The swimming pool)

Since my camera everywhere to drag on, especially not in the pool or in the library (Episode II), must remain for now unimaged this entry.





that swimming pools are different here, I noticed several years ago, but you have to fight it, because if you would like to use one regularly. Because

  1. need almost everywhere a bathing cap. This can be arranged quickly.
  2. the opening times are very modest. 9.30 bis 17.00 clock clock is not so unusual.
  3. the water is lukewarm.
  4. the water is not as clean as we would have liked.
  5. is used most of the pool to play and the one to three separate tracks maybe.
  6. is a 50m pool is absolutely not a given. That is, we also do not necessarily different.
  7. , the water depth on average about 1.20 m, even if it is a large outdoor pool with children, 25m and 50m pool. This also explains why it can play the "float pool" so well.
  8. must not overwork his body, so minimum will be refereed by the hour, like every 30 minutes, the entire crew from the water. Not so bad if you do not then just 3 runs swimming.
  9. is not provided that one takes a shower after bathing with soap, so be dirty home. Presumably, one can in such an environment just does not wash well enough, so you better like them apart.
  10. Japan is just too humid and after swimming is all wet! Many Japanese women undergo too into the designated Umkleidekabinchen, but the same benefit a sauna, so I usually try, I discreetly move against the lockers, as well some other girls do. Just that they have then so chic rock towels, not me.
  11. one is definitely the only European, unless you bring a friend.
  12. make the pools usually after 31 August to operate one.

then remain only the indoor pools. Among them there are some who would seem much better suited for swimming. But no matter how good or bad so an indoor swimming pool is, it always costs 500 yen entrance fee. The outdoor pools usually cost only around 200 yen.

from my current residence addition, all bathrooms are far away. In my host family and also at Tetsuya were the pools located on the other hand good and as far as I've tested it a little more user friendly. I got noticed only now.





Friday, August 27, 2010

Ronaldinho And Travestis

Ikebana please!

After I met yesterday the same early in the morning with a friend to learning, we walked a bit and have finally eaten in a large department store for lunch. Japanese department stores are very convenient in this regard, since many Käufhäuser have the top two or three floors fully provided for restaurants, so that a large Selection is that you can also record and report in passing because many dishes are plastic replica in the display cases. After the meal we are only by chance another floor went deeper, in which I then discovered an Ikebana exhibition.

I had a few years ago schonmal seen such an exhibition, it had me very impressed. Therefore, I rushed even now gladly leave it. This time, however, should be 800 yen entrance fee, so we bent a little - I have more, my company less - turned around again. But the ladies who had canceled the card, apparently so pleased that young, foreign People (I think the "young" plays an equal role) as the charging the exhibition that one of the ladies are called back to us from their quota of free tickets, which they had apparently received as co large quickly gave two tickets. The exhibition was very nice. The girlfriend was rather less enthusiastic, but had since we met our learning together already, we could then say goodbye for a Japanese fast tour of one another and I'm on a second tour as a bekloppter Volltouri properly taken many photos.






The lower bush on the left is the work of the nice lady that gave us the tickets has given.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Camaro Sub Box Dimensions

hard to believe ... My

Today I moved into my new home. For a large town house, the building is also huge and also very beautiful. Although it is a lot of concrete, but the interior is dominated by wood and tatami. The house has quite a lot of charm and potential. It is hard to describe, but really is it worth not to do with it. For the incomprehensible reality of this house will catch up soon. The house belongs to his grandfather, who also built the site but his brother. A beautiful, but old house on a large property near the center and with newly installed public transport can only bring strife, if not both have the same owner. This was the verdict of a court "resolved," that after the death of the grandfather (75) whose house must be demolished, so that the brother finally to its law is. Actually, the heirs would like to invest in this house and renovate the kitchen, for example, but that would respond to the situation probably a bad investment. They probably even have to pay for the demolition.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Song That Sounds Like Riverside Electro

air, your air, no air

The first two weeks I am staying with a friend. Tetsuya graduated 4 years ago in Berlin. There we only met once or twice. When I then spent at the Chuo University my exchange year, we met more frequently, but only the first half year, because then he started to work.



ADDENDUM 27 Aug.: Here are photos of our feast and my river. After my move, I will once again have a river but not nearly as nice, but still better than none.



Tetsuya is very straightforward. His apartment is tiny, but nevertheless he immediately offered me to share the few space. He has even bought a futon. As he at 9 clock out of the house and comes back as the morning goes by 1 clock only from work, we have not much time for us to get on your nerves. But that it does not bother him if someone is always there, if he goes and comes, I am very grateful.

Although we have met not so often, we know us very well and get along great. We can very well maintained, cook together on weekends and go every other day morning jog together! Both of us are not surprised both less than the other, that we can overcome with so little sleep and still running. Today was very pleasant, but sometimes it's at 7 clock already so hot and humid that you feel, the air was too "thick" to pass through the trachea. We know but actually not so sure whether it is more difficult to get shut in the air, through or from the body. As for the sweat, the question is easier to answer, but further details might not be necessary. That one meets a young man who runs a not once, but always relaxed half a step behind tagging along and so perfectly adapted to your own pace, which in my case first, depending on the density of air is very strong changes and second, is never very high anyway, is really unusual.

unusual too - at least for a Japanese young men - is that Tetsuya on the balcony, okra, aubergines and tomatoes grow. My aunt recently discovered plant heart comes here is not too short, and is otherwise pleased by regular photo contributions from home.

The only real consideration which I provide here is that I've cleaned up the kitchen and cleaned, sometimes leaving food left over, do the dishes, wash the laundry, making sure that we each mu ; not miss lltag.

On Sunday I pull around anyway. Let's see then what our morning's hard work.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Nilesat Sport Channels Frequency

Learning Café WANTED!

Since A week ago I'm now in Tokyo and the seriousness of student life has started again. The biggest challenge was finding a suitable café for learning. That is, free wireless internet, electricity, proper tables, pleasant atmosphere, cheaper coffee and possibly good and inexpensive food.

I've found some useful sites, but found that, of the promised services not everything is kept. Particularly in the use of sockets are many cafes failed and the atmosphere was not always conducive to learning, so I'm wandering about in spite of these pages quite a while.

Google Maps - a private collection

Free Spot - usually can not really useful learning cafés

Space Hack - sometimes incorrect information


Meanwhile, I am relatively satisfied with two cafes, and have there has already been running for several hours. But it can still be improved.

Blue Square Café : Internet, electricity, two non-proprietary, Macs, large café latte 390 yen, 250 yen a simple cake, but small tables, a few freelance jobs, no useful vegetarian lunch, but otherwise ok cheap lunch combination from 600 yen, the atmosphere, but not perfect

Bread, Espresso & : Internet, electricity , 350 yen Espresso, Café Latte 500 yen +, but extremely tasty and large, filling bread for 300 yen, as early as 8 or 9 clock in the morning and open up to 10 clock inexpensive and satisfying earlier ; hstück, but unfortunately only with ham sandwiches, vegetarian lunch and small dinner with coffee as much bread as you want from 900 yen, good atmosphere, but it seems a bit unusual, there are books with a PC and establish

A particular letdown, the so-called "Wired Café" were. Of these, there are really many, but working there is no pig, because you may not use the sockets, the coffee is expensive, abgegrabbelt the establishment and the atmosphere at all not at all helpful for the work.

Similarities Between Pregnancy And Menopause

unanswered questions!

I were ever at a Japanese educational institution - any kind - teaching, I am all the students a three-page essay on the benefits single-ply toilet paper can write!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Redoing Brick Fireplaces

Soba, bridges, Dams, Onsen and more

For the Kakko-dango We had driven after Ichinoseki.

The next day off ...
... are we there again, this time in order to eat the famous long and thick soba (buckwheat noodles). You had to take a number and wait for quite long, even for a place to sit. But it was worth it. The soba was delicious.


After dinner we went a bit over the place. To a position it has preserved the consequences of the earthquake of 2008. I had then only the aftershocks experienced in July, but even that was already scary and this sight also.


have now resolved the most damage, so this year was in the exchange program will pay visits to the site of Isawa Dam included. If the dam is finished, he will be with 723m length of the longest and the total (volume) of the second largest dam in Japan. We had suggested that we provide them with the water supply for one year the City of Hamburg could. How exactly match our bill, I do not know, but the old and much smaller predecessor dam will be lost in the new reservoir, if the Isawa Dam becomes operational. filled up until the new dam is it will still take about three years, although already used the old dam as basis. The earthquakes have been well recognized, despite the damage suffered as a good and passed the test.


Even after two years of work available again, the access road to the area around Sukawa. Here in the mountains, is available with an amazing natural onsen with outdoor seating overlooking the mountains and orderly sulfur smell, on the other hand this impressive gorge (Oyasu-kyo), lives in the walls of the devil. It roars, steam injected and heated. The plants then take to a very unnatural translucent green and growing like in the jungle. But also climbing the stairs was worth.

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The slightly different self-portrait

a department store, I strolled in on a lovely parade of tooth brushing self-portraits over. Here is a tiny section of it.





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Kenji no Gakko, Curry Hanabi, National Anthem and good day!

Most attractions near Mizusawa, the city where my family lives, I have now seen. One or other Sehensmerkwürdigkeit met yet.




weekends and holidays are family days for the free exchange of sports days or so-called. For young people this means mostly organized sensory overload. For me, it actually means relaxation. I have indeed much to do for the university, but as I have time during the week have time to work, I roll on the weekend, preferably just a little with my brothers and sisters around on the tatami until we eventually an activity superior for the day.

On the first day off we have "Kenji no Gakko" (Kenji's school) attended. The funny thing is really just the friendly salutation of the famous Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa by their first names. But we are all in Iwate, just like the good old "Kenji." In this sense, the presentation and marketing of these personality impressive from the prefecture of Iwate. addition to the "school", consisting of small huts in which - without too obvious reference to "Kenji" - are animals, stars, flowers, and other pedagogically processed possibly valuable, are it is a fairy tale village, whose charm consists predominantly of great design ideas, also a house with proper information about Kenji Miyazawa, we have omitted but cleverly, and of course more than a souvenir shop, where I Wine -Jelly've found. It's amazing how in Japan can pull from a seemingly dry topic of a completely meaningless trip. But as long as it is not something that makes me really interested, I like this


The next experience was for my Japanese friends with whom I had gone out to eat, rather bizarre. When we after dinner and our traditional fireworks (Hanabi) (fireworks sparklers = consumption) shopped, we found this ...

Those who have no Japanese can and try to interpret the images, I can not calm alas! For indeed it is here to sparklers, which are to smell the burning of the Japanese curry rice. This inscription was, of course means that we first round only once or not at the lighted sparklers, which we of course had formally abolished until the end, come. We agreed that at least some way "different", maybe even smell "spicy". The highlight was then that we lit the sparklers and our heads as possible tightly clustered around it to all eager to take the stinging smoke through the nose, cough and eventually realize that even Japanese products do not always deliver what they promise, or rather yet, after all those products just promise bizarre experiences and this has been fulfilled - with or without curry smell.


On another day off I had hoped to go to Ichinoseki to the famous Kakko-Dango (Dango = soft dumplings made of rice at the battered skewer with various Sauces coated) to eat. These are, first, second, incredibly delicious and can not in the coffee itself but also on the other side of a canyon can be ordered. Do this create the money in the basket and knocking - like my sister here - twice on the wood. Then the basket is pulled up, filled with Dango and green tea and high speed is sent down. That the basket is equipped with a Japanese and a German flag is because we were turned around only in the café and were able to look into the chamber in which the basket is filled. The men were so well equipped, that they are out looking like a suitable flag could and could not play the national anthems CD, the German anthem, while the basket raced across the ravine. What did the guests were at the other end, I do not know exactly, but on the monitor to watch them some uncertainty . The board is full of pictures and also we have perpetuated We had the chance to pull the basket all at once, but not send down, for that a little exercise is necessary for the tea, which just on the Dango- Box is made, does not fall over in the fast ride. Once we at the Café had eaten, so we went even to the other side of the gorge and were promptly re-infected the flags, waved and eventually the extra portion that says "Good day" settled in Japanese phonetics.