PART 1 · LESSON 5 OF 30 · 33 MINUTES

Immigration

Thursday the twelfth of October, twenty twenty-eight, the Osaka immigration office, far out by the port. Ben alone with the folder, number one hundred and twelve, two hours on a plastic chair, and an officer who finds one thing missing, the guarantor's seal beside Yui's signature, which is Yui's stamp, in a drawer in Kyoto. The application is accepted, the result comes by postcard, and the seal may be posted. Half past seven, home, a light on in the kitchen, and Yui's mother, with her own key, cooking, three bowls, and don't tell Yui. Nine o'clock, Yui in the doorway, and a phone call, give the key back. Learn the counter's language (shorui wa, sorotte imasu ka; shorui ga, ichimai fusoku shite imasu; yuusou de kekkou desu; kekka wa, hagaki de oshirase itashimasu), to say you were made to wait two hours and made to eat three bowls (nijikan, matasareta; gohan o sanbai, tabesaserareta), what the one intruding says (ojama shitemasu), and don't just walk in, give the key back (katte ni hairanaide yo; kagi, kaeshite). The fifth lesson of Advanced Level 1.

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