Entries this day: Dream Japanese

Dream

9:09am JST Monday 19 April 2004

I was in a shopping mall in Japan and I met up with Christine, my girlfriend during college. She went into the restroom to change her babies' diapers and while I waited for her, the cleaning guys were cleaning the floor in the big commons area. I was not allowed to walk where they were cleaning, an area that slowly grew in size. Eventually they were cleaning inside the restroom, thereby forcing her out before she was finished. She came out with only one baby, the other one being cleaned by the floor cleaners. Christine trusted that the integrity of Japanese workers meant they would do a good job and return her baby promptly. So Christine and I and her Japanese husband and one of her babies went to watch a movie about World War I. They were showing a relief map with lines and arrows and graphics, but no real images of the war, and definitely no video footage. Though her baby continued to not return, Christine didn't seem to concerned; I found out that she and her husband had many children; and Christine was so fertile that they couldn't conceive just one child at a time. She took this opportunity to raise just one child as a blessing, it seemed.

I showed Christine some Japanese written by a fellow student of mine and Christine was able to read it. Then I realized it was written in Romanji. I couldn't find anything written in Japanese in the book.

Japanese

1:04pm JST Monday 19 April 2004

I wrote a bit in my Japanese diary today. I won't bother with transcribing the incorrect versions that I wrote, but these are the corrected versions of what I wrote:

２００４年０４月１５日（木）

今日はすごいいい天気でござる。「でござろ」は古い「です」だと思います。
でも今日、おもしろいから書きたかった。

三十分前この本百円ショプで買った。

一重は私にどこか教えてくれました。今一重はとなりでイタリア語を勉強しています。

「でござる」は「です」の古い言い方です。

２００４年０４月１５日（木）２３時００分

今晩美紀とジョナサンに食べに行った。

あと、さんぽをした。小川に行って話した。

楽しかったです。９時ごろおわって１人でかえった。

それからDeanさんと「XXX」を見た。

２００４年０４月１６日（金）１０時

今私のスターバークスのいすに寝てる人がいるから、窓の前に座ってます。

１２時２２分

今ジーミーさんのアパトの前で３０分まで待っています。

２００４年０４月１8日（日）ごご１１時ごろ

私はすごいつかれた　だから小さい寝る。 アゲハに昨日の晩から今日のあさまで行った。

それは楽しかったです。今日はたらく時楽しかったけつかれかったです。

九こレーソンをおしえた。

おやすみ。