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Not much to report. I had really good mark in my last exam. Around 85% for the writing exam and 89% for the listening exam. This help for the motivation. I am not studying for nothing.

Friday I went to a super delicious restaurant with one of my Yamasa’s classmates. It was a kind of shabu-shabu with Japanese soup and Kobe beef and lots of vegetable and tofu and pork … A lot of meat. Meat at last. All you can eat for an hour and a half. A very expensive meal. At 100$CND, I will not do it often, but I will sure go there again.

On Wednesday I went for the modeling job interview. This was my first experience in the Nagoya Subway. Every little bit of Japanese I have learned so far is useful. It is a very extensive Subway system. The Montreal-Laval Metro extension is very laughable when you compare it other city subway system. I made my way to the middle of the Sakura-dori Boulevard. It was raining a lot. Even with a long coat and an umbrella I was wet. And it is getting hot in Japan.
Then with the help of the map, the people from the agency gave me, I attempted to find their office. After 10 minutes I realized I was going in the wrong direction. Oups… I had to call the office to notify them of the delay. Since the street have no name it makes hard to find a specific location. I asked some parking attendants but they could only confirm that I was in the right neighborhood. I looked in direction of the sky and say the name of the office building. I was late by only 11 minutes.

On Tuesday I went to the hair salon. I previously took an appointment the day before. Even with my limited Japanese I was able to do it. I have a Japanese cut now haha. Two women washed my hair for half an hour. Maybe it was dirty? Anyway it felt very good. Then the cut, they only use scissors no electric razor kind of a surprise for me.

Monday I went to City Hall to retrieve my Gaijin Card. Nothing to report except that my backpack breached in the middle of Route 1. That would make a good Apple story. The ABS case of my iBookG4 resisted the shock. The computer still works.

J’ai dû allumer le système de climatisation hier. J’ai découvert une fonction qui ne fait que dé humidifier. C’est efficace et il semble que le compresseur ne soit pas trop sollicité. Je n’avais pas le choix, après trois jours à avoir mon linge à l’extérieur sans savoir s’il allait être sec un jour. J’ai fermé les portes coulissantes pour diminuer le volume d’air à traiter. Je ne l’ai éteint qu’au matin. Je vais repartir le système la nuit. Si je trouvais que c’étais humide quelques fois au Québec, je n’avais rien vu. J’ai maintenant une description de jungle perdu, comme dans les livres de Bob Morane, dans ma tête, pour décrire la température en ce moment. Et apparemment ça va être encore plus pire dans un mois.

Je vous remercie pour vos emails et commentaires sur le blog. Je n’ai pas beaucoup de temps. En plus je vais commencer à donner des cours… d’anglais niveau débutant à des dentistes…( je la comprends pas celle-la, il se sont donner le mot la même journée 3 dentistes… )

Nous avons un autre gros examen ce jeudi ou mercredi, nous avons appris une nouvelle forme de verbe et nous allons être immédiatement évalué. Haha ça n’arrête jamais. C’est vraiment intensif !

Pas de photo cette semaine… j’attends des photos de certain de mes collègues de classe. Apparemment eu aussi sont occupé…

C’est pas des blagues Yamasa.