On Friday, with a long weekend coming, the premise was to be somewhat productive. However, things didn’t turn out as good.
Friday night I went out with some friends, Saturday night with some other friends, Sunday night went out again !
Saturday I went to a the swimming pool with a friend. We arrived there at 4PM or so. The weather was cloudy. Nothing much really came out of it 8)
My friend again went today (Monday). He went at around 12:30PM.. eager to get some tan.. with a newly purchased level-50 sun-screen ! Clearly a confused choice pushed by the clerk at the drug store.
He left at 3PM, called me, I went there at 4PM and then we both got into the pool again. This time he didn’t put any sun-screen, and actually tried to wash off every bit he had put before… he should have done like me: slept into the afternoon and got there at 4PM.. because in the end we got the same “tan”, even though I did put some level-20 screen.
Clubbing around turned out fun. I went to one of those clubs mostly for foreigners. I invited a friend and another friend of hers. However, because I tried doing that in Japanese, I told her “I’ll get in touch” while I really ment to say: “keep in touch/let me know”. That had me a bit worried: how many times have I made this mistake before ? Being a beginner at a language is surely a dangerous thing.
The fun and spooky part of these clubbing sessions was that I’d go and meet people that I knew. Mostly ex-partners of friends. It’s a situation that can complicate things, but at the same time, it’s nice to go to a place and find some sort of ally !
Chance also wanted that I met a Japanese girl that spoke Spanish ! Spanish is very close to Italian. I did practice a lot of listening (I sometimes watch Spanish language soap-operas), but I never tried to actually speak it.
It’s was a bit odd but definitely fun. I tried to speak Japanese and Spanish all the time with her… a doubly-learning experience.
..I guess I have been somewhat productive then.
Posted by Davide Pasca in Diary