Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Change of Room !

The Above pictures were taken in my previous room. After my complain at the school about the cleanliness of the place, for which they looked very surprised, i was told that unfortunately no other dormitory was available.

Luckily enough, i was one of the first ones entering the dormitory, so they proposed me a change of room. Since my first room looked like a prison with Steel bars on the outside and no natural light coming in, i was more than happy to do the trade!

The following are the pictures of my new room...



Now this is much better! I can even see a strip of sky and plenty of light from the outside!

Today two new students from China moved in as well. One took my previous room and the other one took a double room. As we didn't yet have our "Fridge Space" we choosed it. The fridge was very dirty as well. So, without a word i started cleaning it and i was surprised one of the two students (the one in double room) who's name is Tycoon was willing to help...in no time...the fridge was new looking and the previous stains of dropped ice coffee and remain of onions and other unidentifiable marks were gone.

After cleaning we had chinese Tea. He brought it from home, i must say it was really nice. Usually i don't drink green tea as it is quite bitter...but this one, made of real dried leaves, tasted good !

So we finally came to the usual questions (that by the way is currently hard to communicate as my japanese is really beginners level, but his one is Zero...and he doesn't speak english and my chinese is only based on few words that are "Ni-hao" and "Mei-Mei". so we didn't go far, but one thing was clear: He asked me how old i am. He is 18 and when i told him I'm 35 he happily said "Like my Father"! ...like his father? It turns out his father is 32... and his mother 30! Is that actually possible? Let's see later on...when our japanese improves... because this would mean his parents were 14 and 12 respectively when he was born...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The new room looks ssssssoooo much better! :D
PS How does it feel being a dad's age??
Amanda