Friend For a Week

[_Aya_]

She went back to Switzerland. I'm recuperating. Well, that was one hell of a week. It was almost surreal in a way. I mean I've talked with some Japanese people: we had 3 teachers and I spoke to one wonderful elderly gentleman and on weekends there are some small cute kids around UAJC but I've never met a young Japanese person before. So yeah, I was pretty excited. It was kind of amazing to finally speak about different things with a Japanese girl. It was like: "finally I've met the other side!" There were questions bugging me for years so I could finally speak out.

We talked about a lot of things. Like blood types and hair and music of course. Once we talked about Vocaloids, she really likes Piko and Sekihan and I said I really like utatte mite section and especially Toriko and she actually knows her! I was like

On the other hand I was a bit shocked about all the things she didn't know. I gave her several films. She didn't know about MoonChild or Kagen no Tsuki so I had to fix that. We watched Paradise Kiss together and she really enjoyed it but she kept pointing at George saying: "He looks so gay!"

I showed her the PV for Niji and she was like: "oh, so that's what it looks like". I asked: "do you like it?" and she was like "It's ok". But the real shock came when it turned out she hasn't heard of Luna Sea. I realize she's just 17 but...

She doesn't like A9 'because they're too popular', but she seems very fond of Gackt and her mother happens to know his sister. And no, I don't think she's lying. In turn, she asked me "where do you people download stuff?" so I taught her how to use torrents))

We didn't see much of the city because 1: she hates walking and 2: it was damn cold. Monday I tried to take her out but it was freezing so we only took a walk through the centre and then hid underground. Wednesday we watched a film and Thursday we only went to the nearest shopping mall. On Friday I brought her to the Western Art Museum. She was humming Precious by ViViD because I made her a DVD with various J-Rock PV's. ^^ Surely I had to translate all of the lecture too but it was really interesting actually. After the museum some Julia girl showed up and took her to this 'teenage party' which Christian kids. I was worried she'd get very bored but in fact she told me later that "it was interesting to see Ukrainian youth not drinking or smoking." XDD But we did quite a bit of shopping. Even though she hardly brought anything. She mostly just wanted stuff for her Misa cosplay. Too bad I don't really share her love for shopping and neon pink. But it was fun anyway.

At first she was a bit shy but by Sunday she got very comfortable with me and in the evening she was playing Miyavi and AAA videos and squealing like there's no tomorrow. It was a little embarrassing. But actually she's quite a smart girl.

I'm seriously beginning to think I was a Japanese man in my last life judging by how overprotective I got with her. I really have a need to protect someone as opposed to wanting to be protected. Why am I like that?

But overall it has been a very interesting experience. Quite tiring at times and it was also a bit confusing to switch between Japanese, English and Russian every now and then. But I'm glad I went for it. In a way I guess I even matured a bit in just this one week. Yesterday I also got all sentimental. But we'll probably meet again, maybe even quite soon.

I took this photo secretly, so if you meet her, don't tell her.

@темы: report

Comments

[Ште]

nice post)) it's like reading a fiction, although it's a real story))

[_Aya_]

Ште, Thanks)) I'm glad it was interesting ^^