{{ mizuki }} ALWAYS 三丁目の夕日

Hey,

I had my exam, now waiting for the results. I hope it went well :S Around halfway I felt really bad, I even thought of leaving, but I somehow win against myself and managed to finish my essay. Shiken no kamisama, tasukete kudasai!!!

We went to a presentation today with Nyekk and Padi, we learned about onsens :) We got to know, that both Hungary and Japan are in the top 5 country with lot of spa, also the differences in spa culture.
The presentation itself was really entertaining and funny, I'm glad I went.

It was held in the Japanese Foundation's library (where we can rent books and ready magazines, all in Japanese ^-^V), so after it, we checked out the new magazines and stuff.

The huge thing is, why I decided to write a diary today happened before we checked the magazines.
Being able to watch Japanese movies in Hungary (mostly with Japanese dubs and English subs) can be thanked to the Japanese Foundation. Every months, they provide movies, some of them you can watch for free as well.

So I watched what could we watch the next few months, and there it was:

ALWAYS 三丁目の夕日
02.14.

On Valentine's day!!!!! We can watch ALWAYS in the CINEMA!!!!! (underline it twice more) Isn't it wonderful???? It's like a dream of mine came true :D
I think I remember right when I say, ALWAYS was the first Japanese movie I ever watched, just because Horikita Maki played in it, and instantly, it became my favourite movie of all time.

Ah, and finally I got my hand on 'Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac' by Gabrielle Zevin.... actually I gave it to my Mom right after I bought it (I got it for Christmas btw from my Mom, but I went to buy it :D), but told her to hide it, because I knew it would be too addictive for me to stop, and I had to study. Now that I am reading it, I think it was a good idea not to start it when I was still learning :D

Why this book? Again... a connection with Horikita Maki. There is a Japanese adaptation of this book, with an American director, where Maki plays the heroine, Naomi, and Matsuyama Kenichi (Death Note movie) is another key figure in it. Also I was always interested in the topic - amnesia - so this book is like a 'you-have-to-read-it-you-have-to' book for me. And I really enjoy it very much ^^ Also.. since the main characters are already choosen (Naomi's best friend will be played by Tegoshi Yuya), I can imagine the characters from the book. Anyway... the cast is well chosen I think, I feel like this gonna be a really great movie ^^ Title is: Nakushita Kioku.

Hm... other things. I got addicted to the ending song of One Piece and the Valve game Portal. I think I will try to play it, it looks fun ^^

hope you are all okey! It's extremelly cold in Budapest right now.

mizuki

PS: if there was a machine that counts your words and gives the most frequently used word as a result... in my case the result would be "really", don't you think?