He is back!

For those of you who might be wondering: I returnded safely to Germany and by now even have overcome the jetlag more or less. Unfortunately I am as usual quite busy so you will have to wait a little longer for my final report. I got lots of material that I still need to show you...even one video of me at karaoke!

Für alle die es interessiert: Ich bin wohlbehalten wieder in Deutschland angekommen und hab jetzt auch den Jetlag mehr oder weniger überwunden. Leider bin ich mal wieder total beschäftigt, so dass ihr noch ein bisschen länger auf meinen finalen Bericht warten müsst. Ich hab noch einen ganzen haufen Material den ich Euch noch zeigen muss...sogar ein Video von mir beim Karaoke!

Already at this point I want to give out a message to my dear fellow researchers in room 805:
日本語での生活はすごく楽しかった！皆さん、本当にありがとう御座いました！

Ahhh, ich will nicht zurueck!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hallo zusammen,

auch wenn ich hier nicht wirklich weg moechte so heisst es fuer mich doch zunaechst einmal Abschied nehmen von Japan, denn am 30. April geht mein Flieger zurueck nach Deutschland. :-( / :-)
Tja, ein weiteres Abenteuer meines Lebens geht zu Ende und ich beende es mit einem lachenden und einem weinenden Auge.
Mir ist durchaus bewusst, dass die Berichterstattung die letzten Wochen etwas duerftig war. So eine Diplomarbeit schreibt sich halt leider nicht alleine, wie ich mal wieder viel zu spaet festgestellt habe. Ich werde also noch einige Infos und vor allem Bilder nachliefern, sobald ich die Zeit dazu habe. Ud ansonsten sieht man sich ja bestimmt bald auch mal wieder.

my brain fell out...???!

You Are 80% Open Minded

You are so open minded that your brain may have fallen out! Well, not really. But you may be confused on where you stand. You don't have a judgmental bone in your body, and you're very accepting. You enjoy the best of every life philosophy, even if you sometimes contradict yourself.

How Open Minded Are You?

卒業おめでとうございます！

YES, I am addicted

...to purikura AND the person next to me ;-)

I love those machines!

Finally...

... we become truely Japanese!

What the fuck ... ?!?!

Ja, der Markus war am WE mal wieder beim Karaoke! Zweimal, insgesamt 5h ;-)
Yes, on the weekend Markus went to Karaoke AGAIN! Two times, altogether 5h ;-)
Und ich konnte ja gar nicht glauben was ich da in der Songauswahl gefunden habe!
And I couldn't believe what I found in the songlist!

Aber nichtmal "The bard's song" von Blind Guardian haben. Ich muss da drigend mal etwas Aufklaerung betreiben!
They have this shit, but not "The bard's song" by Blind Guardian. This seriously requires extensive elucidation!

WE

I had the most marvellous all-Japanese week-end. Check out the picks! I guess I don't have to say more!

Short update!

Hey everybody!
Wanted to give you a short update on what I have been up to recently.
Last Saturday I went with 菜都子ちゃん to the 未来館 ("Future-Museum").



I want to especially draw your attention to that green spot in 菜都子ちゃん's face. That's here always very cold nose. The only bodypart that is even colder are her hands (they were blue!). And now I have the scientific proof for that!!!!
After the museum, I had my first しゃぶしゃぶ　(shabu-shabu). とても美味しかった！

Unfortunatelly I didn't bring my camera when I had yet another cultural experience at the Kabuki-Theatre in Ginza. But I can tell you that it was a very interesting experience. But without the English explanations on the earphone I wouldn't have understood anything. How am I supposed to know, that when the dancer flutters around with his fan in a specific way it is meant to express the first love of young women???? And I would have very much liked to show you a video of the "headbanging" of the lion ;-)
Yesterday evening I met with Alex in a Bar in 六本木.

On the way home, I was really amazed by his navigation system with a 3D view of the route!!!!!!!

北海道

Last weekend, I flew with

on board this

to Hokkaido, to visit the Snowfestival in Sapporo. When departing I was able to shoot a nice picture with Fuji-san in the background.

As expected the temperatures were around 0 degree celcius. But Japanese women don't seem to care about that in the least.


Some of the snow and ice sculptures were really impressive.








I was a little schocked, when I ran across this shop:


But of course I also tried local specialities:


My favourite highlight was the olympic ski jump arena:



Most schocking was what Japanese people do to the German language sometimes: