Vol.64 I found a laugh!

Yesterday was a pretty day for me and also my friend.


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I got toghther at 19:00 in Shinjyuiku Station.
He called me and said to me that,
"Where are you? Now I am in front of the police box at the east exit."


When he called me I was waiting for him at the south exit.
Because he told me that he would wait for me there.
So, I rushed off to the police box.



On finding him from the crowd, I greeted him with a tree frog hug.
We walked together arm in arm.
Maybe you feel our action strange because there is no custom like that in Japan.
And even if it exists they will be considered as homo sexual.
But you know, it is quite natural that walking arm in arm between man and man or woman and woman in arabic society.


During with his conversation I remembered more Arabic language than yesterday.
It was like a flood.
But I had forgot simple words and I felt my pronouciation worse.


We walked round for a good restaurant because we were very hungry.
But I was not familiar with Shinjyuku, and because he is muslim he can not eat and drink any food cantaining alcohol and pig material.
So it took about a hour to find out English Pub "HUB".


He tried to order nonalcohol beer,
But they did not have it.
I wanted to drink alcohol but I ordered pine apple juice because I kewn it is bad manner to drink alcohol in front of muslim.
As for food, we had fish and chips as well as pizza.
We had a wonderful coversation and we laughed so much.


After that I knew he likes to sing songs,
so I invited him to go out to Karaoke.
It seemed to be the 3rd time for him to sing in Karaoke.


He is good at singing!
He likes European rock music very well.
His pronounciation in English is like a singer.
He shouted a lot.


I also sang English songs like "Imagine","Help" and "Cherry" and so on.


To my surprise, he began to sing "Donnatokimo".
He can not read Japanese lyrics but he learned it by his heart!



Before saying goodbye,
he kindly gave me some presents.
One is for me, and the other one is for my parents.


Yesterday's my failure was...
Although I knew there is custom that the part of the host must pay money for the guest, he paid money more quickly than I at the register.
I insited on paying but it was too late.

During visiting his country he often paid for me.
Even though I insisted on paying he refused and said,
"When I visit Japan, buy me some."
So I was going to pay for him.
But I paid for him in Karaoke.
So it is O.K.


Anyway, I enjoyed myself a lot.
And I laughed so much.
I had forgotten to lagh until I met him.


*greet someone with a tree frog hug
アマガエルのように跳び付いて（人）を出迎える

* 今日は私にとってとてもいい日だった。
Today was a pretty good day for me.

# 待ち合わせる
get together

* 駅の南口から出る
leave the station by the south exit

* ミーティングに急いで向かう
rush off to a meeting

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一年ぶりに友人と再会。
パブでご飯を食べてその後カラオケ。
野郎二人で、しかも外国人とカラオケって変な気分でしたｗ
おかしかったのが彼がマイクで「タノシー！」と絶叫したこと。
そんなヤツ日本にいませんｗ

彼とはこんなことも話しました。たとえば、
日本と彼の国では「友達」の意味が違う。
さびしくなったとき、会いたくなったとき、困ったときに、
すぐに駆けつけてくれるのが友達。
でも、日本ではそうじゃない。
一週間前に電話やメールで約束しないと会えない。
うわべだけでつながっている友達が多いように思う。
とか。

そして、別れ際に彼にこう言った。
「何か困ったことがあったらすぐ連絡して。あっちにいたときよりも仲良くなろう」



さて、久しぶりに話したアラビア語。
さすがに一年も話していないと忘れてしまいますね。
全盛期の３割くらいしか話せませんでした。
英語も一緒で、毎日勉強することが大事ですね。
「継続は力なり」です。

nikukyu


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