Wow, last week I finally forced myself to redo on of those fantastically boring JLPT prep-tests. And I would have failed. Clearly. Undeniably. And now I am sitting over truckloads of reading materials just so get those last missing 5% points in the reading section. I have 49 days to go. 7 weeks. Anyone else [...]
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Last weekend, I finally finished An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. I can only say: it was fantastic. I am a great fan of Ishiguro’s works and enjoyed reading every one of his books so far. As in some of his other works, he takes the perspective of one of his characters looking back [...] For those of you, who pitied me for having to work on the 25th and 26th this month: don’t. Even though this great event does not exist as such in Japan, they created their own, distinctively Japanese version of it. Much more interesting in a way. So what is different? Christmas here is thought to be [...] This past weeks I did not post anything, simply because I wasn’t doing much but relaxing. Spending quality time at home has become a rare treat these days and it was just nice doing seriously nothing for a while. This weekend was also rather quiet, however, as Masumi’s German classes at the Goethe institute have started [...] |
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