Saturday, November 26, 2005

Making A Melamine Ball Python Cage

Religion


In Ireland, if they ask you what religion you are, say, Buddhism.
-Daniele Luttazzi

To know religion of a person who says we have to listen to profess faith, but we must find his brand of intolerance.
-Eric Hoffer

Where there is an altar there also exists a religion.
-Joseph De Maistre

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
-George Bernard Shaw

Going through the car near a Buddhist temple / shrine decide to stop. And 'Sunday and there is' a party for which the children of 3/5/7 years should be in this temple with traditional Japanese clothing (kimono winter, summer yukata). I did not understand what children do, but the richest parents rented a religious leading up to the temple where the ancient murmuring a few words, he blesses them. To complete the work the children will have to pull a bell which I imagine would avert the feared evil spirits.
I am surprised to see such small children have those characters that will grow into adulthood: the child-man dressed in suit and tie and has a serious look impassive and holding the hand of the girl-woman even made up with lipstick Looking around while waiting for both the photograph is taken. Here it is Japan! In the eyes of the child and the child there 'already aware of a life dedicated to work and absolute respect for the rules. Our children tear the strength to pull the bell rope or playing hide and screaming under the stone statues of monks, gets on your clothes and all those things that would make a child's right to do. These little guys are not.
While I was lost in these thoughts inside the temple know that there are people who pray. But what do they pray? Here, as in all religions there are dozens of superstitions and rituals designed to explain what you do not understand and to ward off evil, so you must double-tap your hands before praying, and then hit a bell, bow and kneel before a priest (bonzo? monaco?) that sings hymns in a language that even old Kanako barely understand.
And I, from the outside, I watch them.
I observe them trying to understand why pray, surely they believe strongly in their religion and how to perform every ritual must be followed, with absolute sincerity and humility.
beginning in me lies an evil thought and feeling, here I am in a land of people who have beliefs absurd and ridiculous superstitions. But I do not know that it is all fake? As if I were in some remote African tribe intent on the worship of totems, looked as if the American Indians dancing in a circle so that the rain goddess bless them with his holy water.
repress this feeling.
Who am I to know what is true and what is false? In Europe there has been slaughtered for centuries, it was invented unimaginable torture and burned thousands of men, has fallen into a theocratic darkness for almost a thousand years and what are the questions (cases) that was put in all this time? Here are just a few: Jesus is the Word? And if it is the Word, is emanated from God in time or ahead of time? And if it emanated from God is co-eternal and consubstantial with him, or a similar substance? E 'separate from him or not? E 'created or generated? It can generate itself? It has the virtue of the authorship or production without fatherhood? And the Holy Spirit, is created or generated or produced, or proceeding from the Father and the Son proceeding, or both? And how, having precisely the same nature and essence of the Father and the Son, can not do the same things as those two people, that he himself? What is the Soul? Does it exist? And if it exists and 'material, intellectual, spiritual, extended?
I do not understand anything, no one has ever understood anything, and this is the reason why there has been slaughtered and the earth is bathed in rivers of blood.
I read the Bible. It took me six months to do it. And there 'nothing like that. Not if they find any trace in the apocryphal writings nor in the early church fathers.
I'm not Christian, are not Muslim, not Hindu Buddhist them (although each of these religions has a piece of wisdom that should not be ignored and I had not see that well), but I'm not even an atheist and I'm not agnostic. An atheist says, "God does not exist." All right, let it show and it was over. What is Man? Why are these particular immutable laws which rotate the planets and atoms? Why is there life? What was there before the Big Bang? There is therefore a desire in all this? Or is it just the unknown that makes us believe to be higher and some clever?
The fact is that I could write a book with dozens of unanswered questions, with scores of theological and philosophical assumptions, with dozens of charges, with dozens of tests, without coming to anything. For years I could burn my brain trying to figure out if it exists and what is the nature of God because everything exists as it is and I realize I'm the exact starting point.
But man is not made to live like a brute ...
With great irritation and disgust I see Messrs cardinals, bishops and priests (but not all, fortunately, although anyone who thinks otherwise has no power to do anything) in Italy , do everything to impose their will to those who do not think like them, and look at you with the same eyes with which their ancestors looked burning and torturing "the wicked": with the same certainty of being right, infallibility, in the Truth.
What is Truth? All believe they are in truth but I say: "
watched by men who say they have no doubts"
believe that truth is something common to all men. Voltaire says: "morality is God, the dogmas of men . At any time and place are such that men and beasts, they know that crime and theft are vile things, and that virtue and doing good things are right and admirable. What is observed in Japan, such as going to the temple every month to pull the strings, is foreign to the rest men so it's not a superstition, prejudice.
In this regard I quote yet again, for his idea of \u200b\u200breligion, under theist, his philosophical dictionary: "
... [the theist] does not embrace any sect because they all contradict each other. His religion is the oldest and the largest, because the simple worship of a God has preceded all the systems in the world. He speaks a language that all people want, but they did not mean to each other. (...) He believes that religion is neither the opinions of an unintelligible metaphysic, or in equipment rooms, but in worship and justice. Making well, here is his religion; be subject to God, here is his doctrine.
The Mohammedan's cries: "Woe to you if you fail to make the pilgrimage to Mecca!"
"Woe to you," says the priest, "if you're not a trip to Our Lady of Loreto" Loreto
He laughs and Mecca, but it helps the poor and defends the oppressed
. "."

Sunday, November 20, 2005

How Long Do Germs Live On Chap Stick

Not Like



The essay seeks to achieve the absence of pain, not the pleasure
-Aristotle

Japan is not a paradise nor a perfect place first because these places do not exist (but there 'there are those who swear in another life) that it has its problems and its shortcomings.
Describing my experience in Japan I can not help but compare what is wrong in our country with what I see here. I could do the opposite, of course, but in that case I would be biased and conceited. If I was in between the Borneo headhunters, after ensuring that the mine is not edible, I would do the same with regard to their ability to embalming than our own. I think this is natural to describe the experience based on what amazes me more and is often the case that what stands out to me eye here is the fact that things generally work better. It 'something that comes naturally, for example, when you take the train and you wonder who is on time and not invaded by ticks. It is natural to many times I assure you. Italy
My criticism is not a form of contempt on the other hand are a reflection on what's missing in our country. There are also special
known as time passes and I do not like Japan's worthy of being reported separately and this is the purpose of today's post.

The fact that in every store you wish to enter (or even simply looking at the window) there are many jobs that scream "Ishaimaseen" (welcome) with a chant worthy of a Buddhist temple that when you go out and contend with a "gozaimastaa-arigatou" (thank you) sung this well, it's quite ridiculous: there are some contracts that I began to set in secret that are not even more the case if there is a customer or not, they sing the two words every five or six seconds, rhythmically, swaying his head in a bit of respect for anything. In ten hours will tell you a thousand times. I imagine their dreams made of bells that echo endlessly thanks and welcome. In banks there is' a light sensor that activates a robot with speakers / welcome, but we can see that you prefer to shop for the person in the flesh. Terrible.
Japan is not a very cosmopolitan country so often that someone fixed the street or on the train. Not with bad look (which I have not seen in any case since I came here) but as if I were studying, and immediately avert your eyes if they see that I see them. Moreover suppose that the same thing happen if a Japanese goes to Ponsacco or any place where there is a lot of people used to seeing foreigners. If an Italian is in France and writes on the Italian front, I think the reaction would be far worse. However, when I wear dark glasses, the percentage of people watching me fall considerably and I am more at ease. However, there is one thing that particularly bother me, after all, not many people look at me.
I do not like the water is almost impossible to find a drink: in Japan all have tea, various concoctions, anything except plain water. At the restaurant or bar they give you than tap water with a bit of ice (at least for free) and also at home there are no bottles. If you really want to drink water I buy at the supermarket or vending machines that are scattered every hundred yards (but thirty drinks often exposed to the water there 'and when it' costs a lot).
I do not like people to smoke in public places. In Italy, only recently has become the just law of the smoking ban in public places here, but, strangely, still there '. Ironically it is forbidden
smoke outside on the street because there 'a lot of people and if a smoker is likely to burn someone, nothing is said about the greatest damage to the lungs. In smaller restaurants or pubs that do not have a smoke, is torture.
I do not like that people work themselves to death even though, as I mentioned in a previous post conditions are definitely better than here.
I find it absurd for a remote parking area there are four people in uniform, paid by those who do not know, that help the cars to park. Always better than the Neapolitan abusive, but four seems a bit too much.
Looking more closely at the TV I noticed that the majority of programs are recorded and that people participating in the quiz are for the most famous actors that lend themselves to the party. I find this quite ridiculous. Moreover, now the magicians are all the rage on TV on different channels then there are a host of magicians with their craziest tricks and it is unclear whether the game will never be "real" or be altered to off camera.
Sports programs and advertisements are a lot of sports "part of" give this example, yesterday played the Japanese national women's volleyball against the Polish, I saw much of the game and end Japan loses. Then in all sports programs or advertising showed almost all the sessions in which Japan was or did lead somewhere. If I had not seen the match I could have sworn that Japan had won. Maybe it's done on purpose so that people began to look more often like a game of volleyball or think it's because you are a Japanese people like to be very nationalistic victorious even though they are not. However, not always the case: I looked somewhere else and the fact you are not repeated.
often happens that the school history books disappear particularly embarrassing as the massacres of the Second World War, the bloody pre-invasion war etc., this is because the textbooks are totally managed by the government. Even as the rest of us the same thing happens, not to promote the Italian race, but religion and the Christian fascists. After a century there is again necessary to study God's creation rather than evolution in Darwin's and Mussolini as a great statesman.



PS: From Monday to Wednesday I will be in Kyoto so that if I try do it by phone.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Palmolive Dish Soap Msds Sheet




She killed herself by throwing a circular saw. The TV was on site and the shooting incident. The footage was aired as sections.
-Daniele Luttazzi

The best TV is turned off
-Anonymous

In Japanese TV you can not find a program that uses the woman dressed as a tool to do ratings. I watch more TV than I consider this a real insult to the intelligence in Italy to have an entertainment program filled with half naked women: letters, letterone, passaparoline and companionship. It 's like we Italians watching these programs because we like them, but we choose the transmission based on how many there are women in bikinis. I understand that there is evidence that a woman attracts more attention than any bullock cart, but on television if you decide to do a quiz program, women who do not speak, but only show, there should be. Same goes for all advertising, including print, which shows a naked woman with something just to attract more and I'm glad to see a beautiful bosom while I will advertise a dental floss, but maybe a bit "off topic "No? This is one of many reasons why I almost stopped watching TV in Italy (Note: not because there are naked women, but because it is trash TV that takes people to a mass of decerebration) were it not for the dvd I choose to buy or the news. Unfortunately the latter is now completely controlled and watch it just to see something while I eat, otherwise even that would be a memory. Just look at a foreign TG of a civilized country to realize this. In Italy you prefer services such as the new flea collar rather than showing the country's problems: what makes those who govern, not what you do, what laws and why, what really happens. You get lost (make us lose) in useless debates on the "case of the moment" that can be a deadly virus as a murder, but enough to see a Tg free (in Italian) to understand that these things are banana republic, by Third World.
Just to be more verbose than usual, but this business of beating alleged perpetrators in TG I find it disgusting. If Mr. No one was arrested, immediately slamming his face causing him enormous damage anywhere and just matter who might be innocent. Journalists should have a stop to this sort of thing and as it is prohibited to broadcast the faces of minors so it should be for those people who are accused of something but have no decision issued by a judge. It should also be prohibited by law from morality as it is go to the people who suffered an accident and ask him how he is and continue to be posted under the house of these unfortunates in the hope that would release a statement. I threw him out the window the hot oil, other than crystal.
This mania of TG to the national cases (Cogne, etc.) to make audience and also to obscure what's really going on is a disgrace to the order of journalists who should be the first to denounce and asking the right questions. There are programs that are saved with difficulty, as the Report and a few others, in which journalists do their job and are not totally subservient.
Giving to religion (read: the Church) all this space inside the television is a shame that as usual it only happens in Italy, what do I care to me with a service of 15 minutes on the Pope and C. TG when it takes 25. As he likes the powerful bow to these people, all to get more votes and how he pleases Ruini priests and meddling in the facts of a free State (?) And above all secular (?).
Purge because people do not like the powerful is lousy (Luttazzi, Grillo, Santoro, Biagi, Guzzanti, etc.). It is one thing that one of these people may not like the things you said / done, another is purged. It 'obvious that Santoro has gone too far in its battle against the Right because he had already figured out that if the coalition had won he would never set foot on TV. Some people may dislike Santoro as it was not to afford to say those things, but Biagi? I do not think he ever put direct questions, but only facts. Luttazzi? It has one post (where he took the money?) But the question of a comic today is worth more than that of a politician because people have come to trust most of the comedians that of politicians. So you see that Santoro will gone too, but her fear was not unfounded as we see today in the pseudo-regime in which we live. Sorry if I
longwinded as usual, the fact is that writing the words slip on your keyboard and make me lose the way that I had embarked at the beginning. Moreover I hope there is no teacher to judge what I write and I assign a bad grade because they are too "off topic "

Monday, November 14, 2005

Banery Reklamowe Obrotowe

TV Ready? Fight! Oasis happy


The word is a woman, the action man.
-George Herbert


Wandering the streets of Tokyo I came across one of the many arcades and decide to enter. This particular one is a five-story building in each of which there are several types of video games: the so-called fighting games (pictured), strategy games, slot machines, etc.. People of all ages playing manic rhythms with their little hands pale and thin from the long fingers like those of women. You can see the banker fifty fight furiously against the sixteen year old boy in a bloody duel to the latest version of the "Beat'em up" (kind of games where you choose a fighter and is facing several opponents with his fists and kicks ) on duty, in Japan it is not strange to see people far more than adult play games or read comics. Are considered entertainment for all age groups in fact often coming home on the subway, there are a lot of people lost in reading comic books (in Japanese manga) and the same goes for games.
Intriguing new concept in video games where you place cards (five) on an electronic table and the game recognizes and displays them on screen: These cards represent different types of armies (archers, pikemen, infantry, etc.) and people faces in clashes between armies. It is interesting that depending on how you rotate or move the card on the table, the army is moved accordingly. Winner is the one who best strategically manage their armies and defeat the opponent. Whoever wins gets a prize from the card slot and if you can find great fortune to be used in the subsequent armed conflict.
One thing that caught my attention is the role, in this case universal, the woman next to her man who is playing, watch the screen where you play the facts so apathetic almost autistic (not talking about me because you Kanako refuses to enter any place which games because of some moral principle, not written).
I wonder what she's looking really with that blank stare and suddenly I see: the woman with her eyes beyond the screen and circuitry inside it to get to somewhere in the underground where his focus mind all the best shopping malls full of designer clothes and jewelry brighter. How do you explain
then this love of women for things that sparkle? be a marked ancestral memory in its genetic code, which requires the woman's search for the best ornaments with fine, sometimes unconsciously, to get noticed. Normally in nature is that the male must get busy (see for example the peacock, the female that enchants with its beautiful plumage) with these things but you can see that the human species a different matter. Even the fish have this obsession with things bright in fact that the octopus is a stupid place always in front of his lair shiny things to attract them close to him and devour them. Stay
therefore unclear whether the woman is more like the octopus or the peacock.
However there are several rooms in these games, but also those around the world, staring into space, impaled behind their man and often their problem is directly proportional to the concentration of their comrade.

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Minimum Width Of Hallway Ontario



And then we went to see the stars
-Dante Alighieri

Ropponji I was in another city luxury in Tokyo. Joint with the subway I have to face three sets of escalators endless fifty yards each. The subsoil here is completely coated wire floors and floors of shops, subway lines and so on.
finally arrives in the area I am in the chaos of a main street full of people and machines with a highway that roars over our heads. At first glance it does not seem a particularly beautiful place, but walking a hundred yards and turning a corner I find myself in another world: a garden decorated in style with lots of Christmas lights on trees and framed by a huge Fontane building, high and hyper on the shape whose sides are projected beams of light reminiscent of snow falling from the sky. Actually it has a very strange shape this building, full of angles and lighting: I think that can be opened by at any moment and come out a style robottoni Mazinger.
entering this magnificent building can not but note the care with which architecture has been achieved. I honestly did not think I see something better than what I saw in Yokohama but I have changed my mind: hard to describe each corridor or bridge, any window or waterfalls that come down do not know where they crash and gleaming marble; rivers flow through strange oblique walls and bamboo antique lighting makes this modern skyscraper not I see the summit.
E 'consists of the most respected brands, the usual Armani, Gucci and company, but the most incredible thing is the design of restaurants and bars, everyone is unique, created here in the old style, the modern style, everyone has a different soul, but he never had seen so fascinating.
I normally come to a decision based on how I eat, but I must admit that the effort to make this place so beautiful to the eye are almost forget that you can also eat and drink. Who knows what
never have felt the great poet in his wanderings the empyrean heaven, but surely if he had seen the wonders of this place it would have been equally fascinated.

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Monster Stories Using Vandertramp

Shorinji Kempo in Japan


Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

-Joseph Addison

Last Sunday I was another mega sports arena to see a national training of students practicing Shorinji Kempo. I tell students as long ago as I told those attending a school must also do a sport. In this case, part of the university and high school students who had chosen sport as Shorinji Kempo and again in this building for training. rticolarmente nice, but walking a hundred yards and turn Japanese inaction, but, just sign here is not unusual to have a big car.
on a "iha leather seats.
I met my friend Yuki who showed me how it works here, in practice about five boys aged between sixteen and twenty-three were training together with the great masters, in this martial art. I see so aspiring doctors, engineers, chemists and so on. thrashing of beating each other. There 's even a school, Yuki tells me, that focuses exclusively on sports. Its members practice every day chosen sport to become real champions (or at least tries) as well as pre-study materials. In Japan there is a phenomenon that an athlete but also a fool. Here to become a champion you have to be smart too well in this school you study and do a lot of sports. I say it's a very prestigious school and only a few can enter, because the admission test are very difficult, in fact she is one of those girls who tried to get in there and failed. Many graduates of this school if they do not become champions in their sport can joins the Japanese national security, a kind of army to defend the country, earning the most money.
Students of Shorinji course of this school win it all: I saw a really fantastic performance in which they were engaged in an Embu (simulated combat), synchronized to the millimeter, sixteen people (usually a Embu is done in pairs or three \\ four maximum); robot seemed these sixteen people were moving in unison in the most difficult techniques of Shorinji without a command give him the go, to achieve such perfection I have no idea how many hours we have spent to run in one minute and thirty seconds of an Embu precision.
I should know because I also made a public demonstration in Embu eight people and be synchronized is very difficult, question of a lot of practice, and we had a voice command to start all together with each technique.
really good, but like the rest do not expect this from people who trains six hours a day with rhythms from army?

Today came the father of the new Mercedes Kanako. I have not seen good model but it's one of those with dual headlights and leather seats. As a family, after seeing her, have settled with a "nice" such a lady of the machines, just sign here is not unusual to have a big car.

Friday, November 4, 2005

All 493 Pokemon Images

Cinema and animals (living and dead)


size and moral progress of a nation can be judged by how it treats animals.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Today I visited the Shinagawa Aquarium in Tokyo: it was not very big but well maintained and clean. I attended a performance of two dolphins leaping in the air in exchange for some herring.
In principle I do not like it Zoo earth, nor water for these poor animals are kept locked up in cages that do not make it the immensity of the bush or deep ocean depths. It pains me to see them running in circles all his life without a purpose, just waiting for the food. Some philosopher might allege that the same holds true for many men, even if they are not in cages or even all that we do not see a cage, but this is off topic philosophizing. In truth I think that animals should stay in their natural habitat, especially large ones such as dolphins: the public is on a "ooooh!" When he sees them jump into the circle or play with the classic ball and happy babies cry, but for an eye this show is worth more sensitive. The dolphins are amazing creatures and keep them trapped in a pool of ten square meters is a crime. The same is true for sharks or other large fish. A fortiori, this applies to the big cats, monkeys, hippos and all the big creatures so it's a pain being in the cell.
This summer I was at the Zoo of Pistoia and it soon becomes clear as you enter the decay of the prisons for animals, many animals are sick or sleep all day, other obese or thin as skeletons.
Steps aquariums with tropical fish or small animals that do not suffer too much, or perhaps have an advantage in terms of extending the life course and pass all the pets that over the centuries have adapted to this life but the whole rest should be prohibited by the common moral sense.

Taking up the thread I was saying that, as in all these places, even here children swarm everywhere, in fact even in the city where I live, Azamino, there are many children of all ages. From the moment you start going to school (six years) learn to fend for themselves. Crescendo will see very little their parents who work like mules so they are forced to travel alone or stay at home with no one is watching them. Typically ten years have no trouble juggling the lines of the subway, buy clothes, food etc..
This system has many positive sides certainly helps and then as an adult to act as such and not as a child to see how it happens in Italy even at forty, but let's face it I think a child should stay that way as much as possible, we are in a hostile world in which we must work to live in cages for rabbits for hours and hours daily compared repeatedly with new problems that life offers us kindly. An old Zen proverb declared: "Man is born, suffers and eventually dies." Without being so drastic we are certainly not in a happy world and perfect (after all, a perfect and happy world is a nice paradox) because you then become aware as a child? Children must have parents present and need to learn to tie his shoes at the earliest ten years or risk becoming adults before their time and lose the youth is an abominable crime.


(above: a view of the large aquarium in the restaurant)

For dinner we went to the restaurant of a friend of ours who works for a change, as a cook (he told me who works ten hours a day, five days a week, after all, you do not kill as the brother of Kanako). The restaurant's name says it all: Luxory. The entrance is shaped like a cave with marble blacks illuminated by dim red light, past the cave you will reach a large room dominated by a huge golden and beautiful aquarium (in theme with the day) not less than four meters high and off six or seven where dozens of fish swimming multicolored tropical.
The atmosphere is tasteful if a little kitsch with little light as befits this type of premises. The waiters in tuxedos and supplied headset to communicate with each compete to find the best table in the meantime we salute our friend and chef whose specialty is dessert. The restaurant offers a wide range of foreign food including the ever-obvious choice my carbonara and spaghetti with clams ordering Kanako. When I see the smiling waiter holding two huge dishes of bite to rejoice that I am going to do but, with regret, I must note that the food in them fills a tiny portion of the pot. In practice, with six forks (I've counted) I finished. Delicious but as usual too little. Cost? € 4.5 to € 5 for the carbonara, and clams. Less than any tiny Italian trattoria. Of course if I did not want to spend that evening to take the set menu that costs about 40 € and fill me with delicious food in an environment that does not even compare to the best restaurants I know of Italian luxury. I wonder how do the leaders to pay all employees including the huge aquarium and live decently. I do not know and anyway it's not my problem. About
also offered us free dessert which was excellent.

**

Yesterday I went to the cinema to see The Brothers Grimm: horrible direction, terrible story, acting unwatchable (not If there is a 'Bellucci). It is not suitable for adult audiences to a young man he also ticket costs almost double that from us and the room in which he was shown was about half that of the Warner Village. I do not think I'll go to the movies except maybe to see Harry Potter 4 comes out Nov. 26. Here in Japan, films are screened in original language and subtitled in Japanese: a better system of dubbing as long as you know a little language with which they are projected. In Italy we have very good voice actors, but when I have the DVD and I watch movies in original language there is a big difference.
Often for smaller films or cartoons (not for children, those called "animated films" in Miyazaki, the Oscar winner, is the undisputed genius) the dubbing is terrible. Not to mention the Italian dubbing of video games that are always the same for 10 years: there ', Bolognese, Neapolitan and Milanese. Yuck.

**

I was at the fish market: a large open warehouse where all vociano to sell their wares. There are plenty of other fish, some already living sbuzzati swimming quietly in the display cases unaware that their life is counted in minutes.
on the planks of wood are lying big tuna el'addetto of the break-up, holding a long, thin sword, makes them into slices, another member of staff takes these frogs and chops, and another takes the slices of tuna and put them inside the plastic boxes which then sells.
There are many strange fish that had never seen a more than abnormal amounts of clams, oysters and giant snails. There are also many fish eggs that will garnish the most delicious dishes.
I find myself in a seemingly chaotic frenzy where everyone runs, buy, sell, some even on the minifurgoncini charge on which the fish and bring them to the restaurant where presumably they work.
Frankly, I expected better. I remembered by the fish market I saw years ago in Spain (Bilbao? San Sebastian?) And was much more fascinating. Perhaps the problem lies in the fact that this is not just a market but a wholesale to the public especially for restaurants, supermarkets, etc., then the atmosphere changes.
Unfortunately I had to see this market quickly because we had an appointment and we were getting late, though I planned to return alone to enjoy it in peace.

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I made friends with some friends from when she works Kanako so often encounter. One of them, Roppon-chan decided to help me with the Japanese language so she offered to be my teacher in exchange for some Italian lessons. We speak English, she speaks very well (even the Chinese, which is very different from the Japanese) I am a bit less, but I just have to get used to speak as I understand it without problems. I was already filled with tasks in the evening so often I'm studying to not look bad to the next lesson.