Twenty and don’t-know-how-much-more hours… arrived! Japan. Misson one: where is that “Limousine Bus” I’ve heard about? Yes, I have the money in my pocket. Japanese money. I have the instructions in my notebook: “at the Narita Airport, take the Limousine Bus to the Yokohama City Air Terminal, YCAT”.
It seems nobody speaks English. At least, please, somebody tell me where is the book… Is it still on the table? No, nobody speaks English. Not in a way I can understand.
Finally I find the place. Buy my ticket to the bus. I have five minutes to get the bus. I use pretty much all of the seconds available before finding the RIGHT one…
There’s this guy on the seat beside me… Let’s practice my japanese sentences, I think. I open my notebook and start to read, slowly and clearly, always smiling:
Watashi wa nihongo o hanasu koto ga dekinai.
Wa… ta… shi… wa … ni… hongo… oooo … ha… nasu…. koto…. ga…. deki…. nai!!!
He stares at me. But, besides that, absolutely no reaction. Not one single muscle moves into some kind of expression. I repeat. Then I add… Bu.. ra…. dji…. ro…. din…. des! I’m Brazilian.
I repeat these two marterpieces of japanese language two times more.
Then the man, looking at me, points to himself and speaks, in English, very slowky:
– Me… Vi.. e … t.. nam! No japanese! Sory!
Thanks god, and my friend Luis Quadrante, I got to my new apartment hours later… Enough for a first day!
PLACES, PEOPLE AND STORIES 
If you want to talk with the people, you must to say “sumimasen”.it is mean excuse me. By the way it is really difficult find someone who speak English ( or other forigein language ) in Japan. And they are using Japanese-English, if you arent native speaking English person, maybe it will difficult understand in the first times.But after you learnt that you will things the Japanese-English is funny,lovely,terrible in the same time.:)
Have a good time in Japan !!!
Hello, thank you for your comments! Yes yes, after a while I started learning how to approach people, and the key thing is… first impression. If I say “sumimasen” first, no matter I can’t speak japanese after that, but I’ll have their attention, usually they are very nice, helpful and kind… 🙂 I’m in Rome now, Italy, but I have lots of stories about Japan, so I’ll keep sharing them here… I think that, for this, chronology doesn’t matter much… See you!
oh, I see. I cannot to wait your sweet memories about Japan. 😉
I will keep writing, a little bit at a time… there were so many different things in Japan!!! 🙂