Day 2+3 - Infinite Kanji, many mobile phones and one Stefan

Thursday
The first morning here in Yokohama was really great! I got up early and prepared everything for my first real day at work. But of course there is something I forgot: The address of the company.
I was driven yesterday from the company to my home in the dark, so I didn't expect a problem. But why looks the city so different when it's morning? ;)

The (not sooo different) environment around my house

 

So I walked to the nearest 小判 (little police station) and asked for the adress of my company. Of course I did it in (broken) Japanese but it wasn't so easy to find. So I called Maruta-san and he picked me up. To begin the first day of work in this way wasn't really my intention. Luckily, it wans't a big deal. On the way to the company, I tooked pictures. from now on I can find the way ^^

Finally on the PC ;)

I started with a introduction from Mika-san how explained my typical work as intern. Most of it will be translations of manuals in English, Japanese or German, depending on the product. So today I started with German to Japanese and German to English. Especially the translation to Japanese is complicated because there are thousands of Kanji. And as I was told,  there is theoretically an infinite number, because of the possibilities to mix any kanji together with another one. But neverthelesse, after the first hours, it is really smooth :)

At lunchtime, I had two of the onigiris (rice balls) I bought yesterday and Nene-san, one of my co-workers, gave me a miso-soup. Everything tasted really good. I think I can get used to it :D

The only big problem is the communication with everyone because my spoken Japanese is really a mess and it's very hard for my to understand the vocabulary oO Not because I cannot hear what anyone says, in this moment it's hard for me to remember the meaning. Even from the easy one :( But everyone here helps me a lot and I promise I will learn harder and faster than anyone else :)

Doing hard work.
Serious, the game is more tricky than it looks.

Afternoon, Moritz, a guy from Germany who studied in Japan, came to visit the company. So we spoke a little bit (in German of course) and after that the company took a break. Since the company also sales German board games which seems to be popular, we took 2 of them and started playing. I played the game Just4Fun. Yes, it is a real name from a German board game :D

So the day ended like it began, really smoothe ^^


Friday
This day didn't happen so many things. My hearing and speaking of the Japanese Language is still a mess, which drives me a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle bit crazy. I'm so glad that everyone else is soo nice to me. That really helps me lot and motivates me even more to give 200% in every moment :) And I will f*****g do this! (^_^)

Anyway, today it got a more technical and so a more usual task for me. Some mobilphones went through a terrible update of their operation system through the producer. So I fixed this by researching a lot of websites and in the end jumping to the first one I read and download a simple software for updating. So after all, this it was a piece of cake .... Okay, maybe it's just a piece of cake for a geek ;)

There are really fishes in the little river near my house.
The water in these ones must be very clean oO

Coming home at the evening, I was excited about the weekend. This will be the first time I am going to Tokyo. And I am doing it alone. And everyone warned me that I can get easily lost ..... Do I need more motivation? IIIIII don't think so :D