At first i didn’t get it why i can see the stars now when there were hardly any on the summer sky: humidity. Summer’s so terribly humid as if we were inside a cloud all the time (even though the japanese claim that last year wasn’t even all that hot), even if it’s not visibly apparent during daytime, it’s quite evident at night: it was really an event when we could count more than five stars altogether. Even now, that the air is “clean”, there’s light pollution, so if you consider the sky a half-sphere then the “bottom” 45° from the horizon is still some strange yellowish glow, but after that, stars appear all right.

In addition to my surprisingly long “outline” presentation, today held another good point, which was the table tennis training now in the evening. Although it was quite cold, as usual nowadays after dusk, i kind of started to feel the racket and the balls (table tennis ones, before someone claimed misunderstandability, just like reasonable in case of this word itself), my smashes and cuts started to go where i wanted them and i even managed to do some surprise serves, proud.

The even better part was that Haruka brought along a friend of hers who lived for a year in Hungary, and i was astonished how well she could speak hungarian. At first i was careful to speak slow and use simple words only, but even if i sped up or accidentally used “hard words”, she could keep up. Amazing. And even her pronunciation was correct, at the sound level, which must be very difficult to start with. (Of course intonation and fluency was far from perfect, but still, she could speak, for God’s sake.) And she gave me a Balaton. I’d say “instant love” if it wasn’t misunderstandable (again) in the case of a girl…