At the evening, we made a small video together in which we asked for a job. Who can offer any kind of Job, could send a message to Victor. This is really a great thing from him.
Next Day, I had a Job Interview in a Bar, not far away from Victors school. I talked with the owner of this Bar and he says I can work for two hours a day, four days a week. Start tomorrow. But at the next day, nobody show up at the Bar. I went to Victor to tell him the story. He gives me his phone and I called the owner. That was lame.
At the next day (2012-04-15) I had no special plan, so I rode my bike along the street in a housing area north of the Nagoya castle. I found some very interesting places. And I´m sure, that no other foreigner ever visited these places before me. That is one of these things I love at my journey. I have the full freedom to explore everything I´m interested in, at any time. But not forever! That is shame.
On Monday the 16th April, I captured a video in front of my tent. I will try something new. After that, I rode my bike to the next High School and sat there on a wall in front of the school with my notebook to work at this video. One teacher, how went to the school, started to talk with me. I don´t understand what he want, but I could imagine. But I didn´t care, at this moment. A few minutes left until the next teacher left the school in his car. He started to talk to me too. But I couldn´t understand anything. I asked him to talk in English with me, but he couldn´t speak English. So he left
me alone to get help. My notebook battery was nearly empty and before the teacher could catch me with his colleague, I left the school behind me. That was some kind of fun.
On Tuesday the 17th April, I detached the suitcases from my bike, because I recognized a broken plastic angel on the top of one of my suitcases. I went to the Nagoya International Center to get some held to find a teaching job. Back at Victor´s school I send a message to each of the German teaching schools I could find at the list from the Center. Two schools send me a message back.
At April the 19th, Victor, one of his student and me went to Osu. I wore my cosplay at this day. We took some nice photos at. It was really nice to walk around the streets with a semiprofessional photograph. Victor asked some girls, sitting on a bank, for a photo with me together. He can do this, because he can speak Japanese. I bought a tripod. Now I can make really good photos and videos.
The next few days, I spend a lot of time with my tripod and my camera in the city. I tried some new camera angels with the tripod. Some of them were not so excited for my camera. I had to give up some perspective because of the video was shaking so much, that most of it is unusable. I must find a solution to stabilize the camera. Victor was impressed from one of these perspectives and he want to make a video for his YouTube Channel. The video was so much shaking, that he speed it up a lot and killed the sound. The result was very impressive.
On April the 26th, Kumiko, one of Victor´s student, picked me up as I was working for the bar. My job is to hand out flyers. Advertising! Lame, but helps a little bit to stay longer in Japan. She helped me and showed me how to contact the people on the street. At the next day, I tried her strategy and it works much better. Great Job!
With Kumiko, I went for lunch to Yoshinoya. I like Yoshinoya! It is quite good and not so expensive. I want to pay for Kumiko too, because she helped me. But before I could throw the 1000YEN on the table, Kumiko had already paid. Damn! She asked what I want to do now. I wanted to visit the ferris wheel with her together. Normally I had not interests to ride in a ferris wheel, especially when I´m alone. It is some kind of boring. But in that case, I had someone on my side. This was wonderful. I don´t want to leave her at this moment. So we went to the ferris wheel at “Sakae Sunshine”. I could make some nice videos. This time, I paid for us. I don´t know if she really enjoyed this ride.
Memo to myself: I don´t know why, but I wasn´t impressed. I was never impressed from any building in Japan until jet. But, I was so often, so much impressed of the kindness of the people in Japan.
The rest of the week, I travel around the east side of Nagoya searching some interesting things. Maybe some new cones or abandoned bikes! I found a nice old house. To capture the beauty of this building at once, I used a special mode of my camera. A damn nice shot I guess.
On April 27th, I was cutting the pictures from the memory stick of my camera to the hard disk of my notebook. Cutting, not copying! In this case without using the battery. It was fully charged and I want to take care at the battery for a long life. Normally this is no big deal, but the damn plug of the powerfully is not very stable in the plug in the wall. Some kind of risky. Yukari was working with the vacuum cleaner. As she unplugged the power cord from the vacuum cleaner, she hit the power plug from the notebook. At this moment, I was cutting the photos and the notebook shut down immediately. DAMN!!! 19 photos where lost. I spend the whole afternoon to recover them from the memory stick. It takes me so long, because I had to download a nice recovery tool from the internet.
I wasn’t prepared for this kind of accident. Shit happens! Two images are missing forever, but the most imported shot could be rescued by Ontrack.
Once a week, I go to a coin laundry. At April the 28th, the weather was nice and I could dry my clothes in the sun with the help of a small rope between a fence and a tree near my tent. This is one of these things I like in Japan. Nobody has robbed me until yet. I think Japan is a safe country. I think I should find out how much safe. No risk, no fun….
On the next Sunday, I visited the Nagoya Castel. I took over 290 photos. That is good for my statistic. I´ve saw some cosplayer in the park. Damn! At the morning I thought, I should were my cosplay too. But I didn’t do so. Holy crap! It would be nice to walk around the castle with the cosplay. Hm, maybe next time, together, with Victor. But he has no free time.
I was at the Nagoya International Center once more again and asked to sign up for German teaching lessons. But they send me to the Hello Work office. So I went to the Hello Work office shit and asked there for a teaching Job. YES!!! One job and no Japanese required. DAMN! This school wanted a native English speaking teacher. Arg! I don´t get it. But I get another address from the job assistant. I will visit the school in person.
It is golden week in Japan. But I don´t recognized anything of this. Because I have free every day and all shops and stores are open on every day. But some other facilities, like schools are closed. But every day feels like a Saturday to me. This is confusing me from time to time. Hm, what day is today? Sunday?
At May the 2th, Victor and I went to a Softbank shop and asked for a mobile phone. Normally I don´t need a phone, but it is sometimes very useful to have one. Especially in case, that some people can contact me, in case they have a job for me. I bought a small phone with prepay card. Quite expensive!
I use the free time to travel around the city. I have an address from a teaching school but this is closed over the golden week. Next Monday, I will visit the school and ask for a Job.
So I had nothing else do to as to rode down a small street and stopped at a small tatami shop. I thought it is interesting and so I stopped to watch for a while. The people invited me for a small soup and a cup of tea. I showed them some photos of my journey. I want to talk with these people, but I couldn’t. So I called Victor, with my new mobile phone, to get some help for translation. It works fine! The 45 year old guy will contact me, if he had a job for me. This is a bit like in grand theft auto or a roleplaying game. The 73 years old women gave me a banana and a cup of water before I left the tatami shop. I will return to this shop in near future to make a nice video about tatami mates.
On April the 3th, Victor, two of his friend and me went to Osu. I wore my cosplay. Two girls where much impressed from my outfit. I understand the word “kawaii”. I´ve heard it a lot of times and I use this word too, for something cute. Normally I say thanks, and go ahead. But maybe the two girls want some more information. So I called for Victor as translator. Ken, one of Victor´s friend talked to the girls too. He asked the girls if they want my phone number. At this day, I received two new phone numbers from two cute Japanese girls. Maybe I see them again, one day.
A few stores later, we stopped to take a photo with one incredible guy. From one second to the other, so many people stand around us to take photos. That was unbelievable. Ken asked, if I lend the cosplay to him. Hm, maybe…
At the end of our trip to Osu, I was riding on a skateboard with my fucking awesome boots. Hey, these shoes look very nice, but they are not very comfortable.
Victor has a damn highly awesome idea. We went to a maid café. Yeah, it is not a maid café. It is a maid massage store or some kind. But all other thought it is a maid café. So, we went to this “Maid Café” to ask for a job for me. I´m in cosplay, while the camera is running! But, shame! They have no job for me. Maybe in the next episode!?
While I walked back to my bike, Victor and the other two guys went ahead to a Stake House. I´ve meet them there again. We sit all together at one table. At this point, I´m lucky, that I´ve meet Victor. So many people around me, and I can understand most of the conversation between them. I like this. I ordered a “Chicken on the Barbie”. That was not the most expensive thing on the menu.
After the dinner at the Steak house, we went to a Karaoke bar next door. All together! That was my first time in a karaoke bar. I´ve used UltraStar for PC. This is a nice Game like Singstar for PlayStation. But only for some tests. Maybe it is possible to meet these wonderful people again. I had a good time at this day. Even in case, that I could throw my shows away, including me feet’s!^^
Now, the tenth week began, and I´m looking forward to start a new adventure.
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