Heavenly blessing
"Blessing from Heaven" or initiation into the secret level of Life
Thursday afternoon gave me kind of a hassle. I left work at 17,45 to be able to arrive to training which started at 18,30. Crossing a nice park close to my Uni, one has to pass by some beautiful trees all along the road. As I was peacefully walking there, suddenly I felt some strange hit on my shoulder. I looked at it and saw a huge white spot, as big as my palm. I was so surprised by the amount, that I looked around and saw that the other half of the "package" landed just next to my foot, also the same size as the one on my shoulder. That's where I lost the line and started passionately laughing. Also, looking up I did not see anything. No bird, no moving, just thin and clean branches. What made me ponder was the possible size of the "dickey-bird". It must have been a griffin, I am sure. Or at least an eagle or something. I don't know how it is at you but this kind of "event" means luck. Well this one should mean a greater luck than what I can ever imagine! So I really expect something very good to happen! Can you hear me, gods and demons? :-)
The Japanese invasion
As I was desperately trying to get rid of te "stuff" with some hankies, a group of some elderly Japanese tourists spotted me for themselves and asked if I knew where the Herendi Shop was. (This is a world-famous Hungarian porcelain brand.) I told them how to get there, but they hardly could understand even the "emulated" English, so I decided to take them there. It was just 5 minutes away so it really was not such a big sacrifice. They were still veeeeery grateful and all of them were iterating "Gomen nasai, gomen nasai" I could hardly keep up with them responding "no problem". After we found the shop we said goodbye to each other of course in Japanese, accompanied by some deep bows. Hehe, amazing :)
I don't know why is that, but Japanese tourists keep spotting me out for help. It happens every week which i think is kind of frequent. I am happy to help them but the fact that they hardly speak some basic English really does not make my job easier. So this is also a reaso for why I want to learn the language.
The language
I've met the teacher this afternoon. She's a last year student at the Department of Japanese Language and Culture, and spent a year in Japan - she returned not long ago. It seems that at the beginning we will meet twice a week, on Monday and Wednesday, but if I manage to consume and learn things as quickly as I could in case of English and Russian, we can even switch to a "3-times-a-week" mode and I will have a good chance to achieve a basic conversation level, we'll see. We collected all the important topics that I need to get familiar with by the time I leave for Japan, so we focus on those now. But I will continue it after I've returned.
Sooo... that's all. Oh, one more thing, one of my poems got into the next issue of the University's cultural gazette. It seems that I will have to submit more. I wrote them in English in order to improve my language skills and originally I did not mean to publish them - I rather wrote them for myself. However others said they were good, so it seems I started something. Maybe sometime when I'll have some spare time I willl create a site and upload them there. It won't be before this autumn for sure :-)
Thursday afternoon gave me kind of a hassle. I left work at 17,45 to be able to arrive to training which started at 18,30. Crossing a nice park close to my Uni, one has to pass by some beautiful trees all along the road. As I was peacefully walking there, suddenly I felt some strange hit on my shoulder. I looked at it and saw a huge white spot, as big as my palm. I was so surprised by the amount, that I looked around and saw that the other half of the "package" landed just next to my foot, also the same size as the one on my shoulder. That's where I lost the line and started passionately laughing. Also, looking up I did not see anything. No bird, no moving, just thin and clean branches. What made me ponder was the possible size of the "dickey-bird". It must have been a griffin, I am sure. Or at least an eagle or something. I don't know how it is at you but this kind of "event" means luck. Well this one should mean a greater luck than what I can ever imagine! So I really expect something very good to happen! Can you hear me, gods and demons? :-)
The Japanese invasion
As I was desperately trying to get rid of te "stuff" with some hankies, a group of some elderly Japanese tourists spotted me for themselves and asked if I knew where the Herendi Shop was. (This is a world-famous Hungarian porcelain brand.) I told them how to get there, but they hardly could understand even the "emulated" English, so I decided to take them there. It was just 5 minutes away so it really was not such a big sacrifice. They were still veeeeery grateful and all of them were iterating "Gomen nasai, gomen nasai" I could hardly keep up with them responding "no problem". After we found the shop we said goodbye to each other of course in Japanese, accompanied by some deep bows. Hehe, amazing :)
I don't know why is that, but Japanese tourists keep spotting me out for help. It happens every week which i think is kind of frequent. I am happy to help them but the fact that they hardly speak some basic English really does not make my job easier. So this is also a reaso for why I want to learn the language.
The language
I've met the teacher this afternoon. She's a last year student at the Department of Japanese Language and Culture, and spent a year in Japan - she returned not long ago. It seems that at the beginning we will meet twice a week, on Monday and Wednesday, but if I manage to consume and learn things as quickly as I could in case of English and Russian, we can even switch to a "3-times-a-week" mode and I will have a good chance to achieve a basic conversation level, we'll see. We collected all the important topics that I need to get familiar with by the time I leave for Japan, so we focus on those now. But I will continue it after I've returned.
Sooo... that's all. Oh, one more thing, one of my poems got into the next issue of the University's cultural gazette. It seems that I will have to submit more. I wrote them in English in order to improve my language skills and originally I did not mean to publish them - I rather wrote them for myself. However others said they were good, so it seems I started something. Maybe sometime when I'll have some spare time I willl create a site and upload them there. It won't be before this autumn for sure :-)
No comments:
Post a Comment