My first day in Japan – Andy Newton, October 2015

日本で一日。

ワー、やっと日本へ来ました。ついたちから今まで沢山が起りました!当初、飛行機で席に着いた後で、隣接した日本人と話し始めました。離陸から着陸まで日本語で喋りました。彼はKYOCERAのオーソぺデイック営業事業部で、42歳です。

The guy I met on the plane!

The guy I met on the plane!

彼は私の漢字本を見て、知識にびっくりされました。滞空時間はとても久しい時間が掛けました(十二時間ぐらい)。着陸のときに私は「又会う日まで」と言って、彼の名刺をもらいました。

それで、羽田から福岡まで日航機の中では綺麗過ぎるエアホステスに会いました。本当に明眸皓歯がある娃鬟ですよ。

福岡まで行き着いた後で、とてもジメジメ蒸し暑い天気を感じました。私と友達が別れた後で、一人でした。怖かった。おなかがペコペコで、疲れて、歯を磨きたかったから、近く旅館にチェクインしました。歯を磨いて、シャーワーを使って、昼ご飯を食べた後で、町へ遊覧しに出かけました。旅館の近くは条天時通りです。条天時通りはお寺公園です。その後歩いてとき、他人は私に親切な僧を知り合った。お寺の中はとても綺麗でした。でも少し部屋は立入禁止です。遊覧の終わった後で、僕の顔にお疲れが見えて、旅館へ寝に帰りました。

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My first day in Japan.

Ah, I’ve finally made it to Japan, so much has happened from the day I arrived until now! Firstly, I took my seat on the plane at Heathrow and began chatting to the Japanese man sitting next to me, and we were talking away in Japanese pretty much from take-off to landing. He told me he works as an orthopaedic sales manager for Kyocera and was 42 years old. He saw my notebook and was surprised by my knowledge of kanji (a big ice-breaker). The flight took ages, about twelve hours in total. When we landed I said “until we meet again” and he gave me his business card in return. He suggested we meet for a beer if he comes to Fukuoka.

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After that, whilst on our JAL plane from Tokyo International Airport to Fukuoka, I met the most beautiful air hostess I had ever seen. As they say in Japanese, she had ‘starry eyes and beautiful white teeth’.  When we arrived at Fukuoka, we could feel the sticky humidity. When we left the airport, my friend and I went our separate ways, I was now on my own -scary.

I was starving hungry and really tired, and I really needed to brush my teeth so I checked in at a hotel not too far away. Turns out it was a really fancy businessman hotel, but at the time I didn’t really care. After I had a shower, did my teeth and had something to eat, I went to do a bit of sightseeing. Not far from the hotel was a Buddhist park and temple called ‘Jyoutenjidori Avenue’, when I was walking along a stranger in the street stopped me and introduced me to the head monk in charge of the temple there. He was a real nice guy. The temple was beautiful inside but there were a few rooms which I could not enter. After I finished wandering around, I looked and felt extremely tired so I headed back to the hotel to sleep.

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