Surprise from Japan
This day was going to be very busy, due to an unexpected surprise.
As I opened my mailbox in the morning at the office I saw a mail that I received from a Japanese guy from Japan-Guide.com, with whom I have started corresponding just 1-2 months ago.
He is an SAP trainer, residing in the UK at the moment, and regularly comes to Budapest to provide SAP training. In this email he wrote that he has just arrived to Budapest during the night and will be here for less than 2 days, and initiated a meeting.
Well, I knew I had a hard day to come because of the rehearsal and the shooting outside of Budapest, and also as he was continuously on his way to somewhere between Budapest and Esztergom. Also, my phone's battery was about going down at any minute and the balance on my phonecard approached Zero, so this meeting seemed to be quite difficult to organize and gave us a hassle with all these flexible always changing conditions.
However he was the only one of those who contacted me from Japan-Guide.com, who looked like a decent one, not wanting to have an affair or such, but really interested in cultural exchange. Also my sense of politeness whispered me that rejecting this initiation would be kind of impolite, as he is here only for a very short time with a serious business issue, hardly can have a few hours of sleep because of the business meetings, the training and the business dinners, and still he offered to spend the remaining free time on having a coffee with a complete stranger. And I am here all the time, I have more freedom in adjusting my schedules.
So I accepted the idea and with a lot of hassle and dozens of SMS messages during the day we managed to put the meeting together in the evening after he finished with the business dues and I with the rehearsals.
We met at a fancy Cafeteria in Vaci utca (one of the most prominent tourist areas in Budapest) and talked for a bit more than an hour. About Japanese and Hungarian language, about the ancient Hungarian rune writing, about what I should expect when I go to Japan, how to prepare for earthquakes, about his job, also why he wants to learn Hungarian, and he asked a lot lot and lot about martial arts. The strangest thing for him was the purpose of my visit to Japan. He said foreigners usually go there to see the country. He could not really get over the fact that I was doing MA :-D
That one hour flew by very fast. He made a very good impression on me, very nice guy, it is obvious that he's been living in the UK in the past few years.
We left the Cafeteria too late, I was not able to catch my train so I decided to go to my office nearby and check some things. He accompanied me. And who did we see on our way to the uni???
A guy playing with Poi :-D I have never ever seen it before, first I have read about it on Liz' blog about a month ago and now... :-))) Liz, if it was you who sent the guy over, thanks very much! :-D (no, it was not "Him", just "a" poi-guy, but it reminded me of your entry about Poi ;-)
Anyway, Toshi-san took a pic of me (he said I was scary on the pic - I will try to get it from him), we said goodbye as he was leaving Hungary next morning. The next time when he comes again will probably be in May, so I'll have to put together some Hungarian language stuff for him to learn by then.
As I opened my mailbox in the morning at the office I saw a mail that I received from a Japanese guy from Japan-Guide.com, with whom I have started corresponding just 1-2 months ago.
He is an SAP trainer, residing in the UK at the moment, and regularly comes to Budapest to provide SAP training. In this email he wrote that he has just arrived to Budapest during the night and will be here for less than 2 days, and initiated a meeting.
Well, I knew I had a hard day to come because of the rehearsal and the shooting outside of Budapest, and also as he was continuously on his way to somewhere between Budapest and Esztergom. Also, my phone's battery was about going down at any minute and the balance on my phonecard approached Zero, so this meeting seemed to be quite difficult to organize and gave us a hassle with all these flexible always changing conditions.
However he was the only one of those who contacted me from Japan-Guide.com, who looked like a decent one, not wanting to have an affair or such, but really interested in cultural exchange. Also my sense of politeness whispered me that rejecting this initiation would be kind of impolite, as he is here only for a very short time with a serious business issue, hardly can have a few hours of sleep because of the business meetings, the training and the business dinners, and still he offered to spend the remaining free time on having a coffee with a complete stranger. And I am here all the time, I have more freedom in adjusting my schedules.
So I accepted the idea and with a lot of hassle and dozens of SMS messages during the day we managed to put the meeting together in the evening after he finished with the business dues and I with the rehearsals.
We met at a fancy Cafeteria in Vaci utca (one of the most prominent tourist areas in Budapest) and talked for a bit more than an hour. About Japanese and Hungarian language, about the ancient Hungarian rune writing, about what I should expect when I go to Japan, how to prepare for earthquakes, about his job, also why he wants to learn Hungarian, and he asked a lot lot and lot about martial arts. The strangest thing for him was the purpose of my visit to Japan. He said foreigners usually go there to see the country. He could not really get over the fact that I was doing MA :-D
That one hour flew by very fast. He made a very good impression on me, very nice guy, it is obvious that he's been living in the UK in the past few years.
We left the Cafeteria too late, I was not able to catch my train so I decided to go to my office nearby and check some things. He accompanied me. And who did we see on our way to the uni???
A guy playing with Poi :-D I have never ever seen it before, first I have read about it on Liz' blog about a month ago and now... :-))) Liz, if it was you who sent the guy over, thanks very much! :-D (no, it was not "Him", just "a" poi-guy, but it reminded me of your entry about Poi ;-)
Anyway, Toshi-san took a pic of me (he said I was scary on the pic - I will try to get it from him), we said goodbye as he was leaving Hungary next morning. The next time when he comes again will probably be in May, so I'll have to put together some Hungarian language stuff for him to learn by then.
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