My Japanese Speaking Partners

Tuesday 01/30/2007

Today at 2:00pm I met my two speaking partners Kanami and Yukari.

Yukari is the tallest in the Photos. We met at school today and walked to a restaurant called "Daisann Syokudo", which I have not been before (located on Campus). It's a quiter and mostly visited by japanese students. Maybe the International Students don't know about it yet!!

My speaking partner are very sweet and nice, we had some green tea ice cream and talked for about an hour. They had a Japanese-English translator machine, so we could communicate a little bit better than if we didn't have it, but is was challenging because their English and my Japanese is very limited. I learned a few words in Japanese "Daisann Syokudo" (lunch-place), "Ohiru" (lunch), "Chicai" (close by), "Saki no" (a little while ago), " and they learned a few words in English. It was fun and nice to have met them. We made plans to go have lunch Friday at Hirakata-shi and maybe go window shopping. Also they invited me to visit Universal Studios in Japan, so we are planning to do soon.