Today i took this picture (click on it to see it larger). It was an amazing sunny day! Since i came here about 2 months ago, it has been raining 40% of the time, cloudy 45% and sunny 15%. In fact, starting tomorrow, there will be rain again. By the way, here is now rainy season.To take the picture i went on the 24th floor of the city hall. Nice view :). There some japanese kids looked at me really interested "Who is he with big eyes and big nose?..."...luckily i'm not green or they would have thought to have found SHREK.
Now is quite a busy time at school. There is a test each week and we need to learn 9 new Kanji (japanese Charachters) every day. That is not too hard. The problem is that each charachter has an average of 3 way of reading it. In addition some kanji are read the same way. Like "HI" can mean "day", "fire", "light", "Shuttle", "Water Pipe", "Ratio", "Mistake", "Maid", "Tombstone", "Scarlet Color" and i have no idea how many others. This is one of the most difficult things of the japanese language. Many words are pronounced identically, no different intonation, but you have to figure out from the context what they are talking about.
I said "one of the difficult things" because there are others. Maybe sometime soon I will introduce you to the good and odds of the japanese language ;)
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