日本語
Ben didn't get on the airport train. He stays in Tokyo, finds a job at an English school and a flat of his own, and builds a life: colleagues, neighbours, a typhoon, a hot spring, and Yui. His first months of living in Japanese, from summer to the New Year.
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初級レベル2 - パート1
レッスン1〜10On Thursday morning Ben comes down to breakfast after staying in Japan.
On Friday morning Kenta finds an English-school job and Ben makes the call himself.
On Saturday Ben goes to Sakura English with his CV.
On Monday Ben takes the Hanaya's address to the city office.
On Tuesday Ben visits two flats with an estate agent.
Back at the Hanaya on Tuesday evening, Ben calls Yui in Kyoto about the two flats.
On Wednesday, the ninth of July, Ben signs the contract for his flat and learns about a very Japanese custom, key money.
It's Tuesday, the fifteenth of July, and Kenta helps Ben move into his new flat.
It's Thursday, the seventeenth of July.
It's Thursday night, the seventeenth of July, and Ben's first night in his own flat.
初級レベル2 - パート2
レッスン11〜20It's Friday, the first of August, Ben's first day at Sakura English.
It's seven in the evening on Ben's first day, and eight students are waiting.
Two weeks into the job, in the heat of mid-August, Ms. Aoki asks Ben about his day, from getting up to going to bed.
The holiday week is over, Ben has an early class, and at eight in the morning he meets Ms. Aoki on the platform and gets on the most crowded train of his life.
Ms. Aoki shares her homemade lunch with Ben, who decides to make his own.
Haru does her written homework correctly but is afraid to speak in class.
On his third morning of running, Ben twists his ankle.
After Tuesday's evening class, Ben has no umbrella and Haru has two.
Ben accepts a weekend invitation to Hakone.
The five colleagues reach their inn on Saturday September thirteenth.
初級レベル2 - パート3
レッスン21〜30Yui keeps her promise and comes to Tokyo for the weekend.
On Sunday October fifth, Ben and Yui keep their promise to cook together.
Miss Aoki invites Ben to her November wedding.
On Sunday Ben prepares for a forecast storm before the wind grows strong.
On Monday afternoon Ben leaves his black bag on a train from Ueno.
On Saturday November eighth, Ben visits the Hanaya for Kenta's twenty-fifth birthday.
On a November visit to Kyoto, Ben tells Yui how he feels and she agrees to go out with him.
Yui visits Tokyo and meets Ben's parents in Toronto on a video call.
On Saturday November twenty-ninth, Ben returns to Yui's family in Kyoto for the first time since the same summer, now as her boyfriend.
On the last school day before the New Year break, Mister Kimura offers Ben another year of work.