This time too a relative short entry, for there didn't happen much new.
Friday:
A group of people was in the evening at Osaka to celebrate the birthday of the female Swede from our student's home. We stayed the whole night at a club, where a couple arguably exaggerated celebrating (expecially the male Swede and our in-house Bulgarian).
However, the most eye-catchers were the girls. I have never seen so many girls, who looked the like, excuse the expression, "cheap whores", but seriously, those you see at home mostly on the edge of the footpath (sidewalk), personelly can't stand something like that at all.
Should anyone still believe that all japanese girls are dressed reserved and "chaste", he should visit such a club because those are only there for picking up guys. One of the lads who were with us left the club with "one of those". Concerning myself I tried to rather stay away. And before anyone now comes up with "Are you nuts? Letting go of a sure thing?" or something similar, I just say: If someone likes things like this, please, be my guest, but please don't come running crying, when you caught anything, and if it only be a swinging blow of one of 'em 2 metre blacks (there were several at the club) who has he sights on the same one.
Didi must be sooo proud
Saturday:
A ususal day filled woth learning and spiced up by preparing a group presentation for Tuesday, which, by the way, went well. Even though one of my japanese partners can speak very little English and I had therefore present his part too.
Afterwards I was once again invited at my hostfamily's from the summer to dinner, which was (as always) excellent. After that I showed them a few pictures from Neusiedl, the concert band and the Uhudler-cellar-district festival (ad Bernie: You were captured really well, but they were most amused about Dominik's "sleeping at the table).
And because there already were many requests: Here's "my" family
Sunday:
Here I was once again hiking with David from Ireland, in the ridge of the Kobe-region, this time to Peak Maya. We were a little bit disappointed however when we got up pretty fast, which then again isn't astonishing considering the ca. 701 meters, whereupon the view over the region was again amazing. On the descend we left the hiking track and waded trough the woods and a dried up river bed. This was fun, exhausting, for David also a little dangerous, since he isn't really used to mountains and rocks and it was a compensation for the boring ascend. All in all we were en route for only 7 hours this time (net hiking time: 6).
To round off the weekend in the weekend I went to eat Yakiniku (literal: roasted/grilled meat) with the Briton Simon too. For this you get the food (80% meat therefor) served raw and flavoured, which then you grill by yourself via an in the table board embedded grill. Exceedingly tasty and not even that expensive in the right restaurants.
Interesting (and funny) facts/opinions about Japan:
Known very much, and appreciated especially by foreigners, are so called Hyaku-en (100 yen) shops in Japan. For, as the name suggests, the price of most wares is only at 100 yen (ca. 64 cent). More expensive products are tagged specially. The main part of the product line-up is composed by daily housewares and commodities, whereas the quality, opposed to the suggestion by the low price quite satisfying is. Since those objects are ideal, if you are only staying a couple of months or a year in Japan, I said especially with foreigners, who don't need top-quality, durable for many years. However, many Japanese too puchasee stuff there themselves, and as such not only those who are on a budget on necessity, because it is nothing laughable socially in shopping at a Hyaku-en shop. Not like it was at home in earlier times, when people, who to Hofer for shopping were smiled upon. The again, Hofer too has advanced itself concerning the quality of its products. Larger shops house also foods and middle-sized equipment with their assortment, thus my tip: Should one stay in Japan for only a short time and despite that have a need for housewares, those shops offer nearly always the best price-performance ratio.
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