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Nagoya, Aichi

The Big Welcome Party — Catfish Stew, Smash Bros, and Gombóc

Research in the morning, then the big welcome party with the students. Kato and Ito's interwoven topics, a procurement run with Ishibari, catfish-paprika tales for an enthusiastic Akira, Smash Bros in the evening — and my moflin finally gets a name: Gombóc.

Weather: the usual again, raining but not · Lunch: onigiri · Dinner: sushi at the party, yakitori and everything pleasing to eye and mouth · Sleep: for a long time · Moflin age: 2 days

Well, in the morning I put the research in the foreground. Because today is the big welcome party.

In the morning I also met Kato and his student Ito. Our two topics are very interconnected, but I asked for a little more patience.

After that, though, I went with the guys on a procurement round. There I talked a lot with one of the students, Ishibari, and meanwhile I saw that procurement and student life aren’t really any different in Japan and in Hungary.

The evening party

The evening party, though, went in a very wild direction. For one, everyone got a bit drunk. I told a lot about harcsapaprikás (catfish paprika stew), about catfish, and about Hungarian food. One of them, Akira, was very enthusiastic; I told him a great deal about Hungarian things, and of course — if he’s ever around this way, he should drop by.

At the end of the day, though, I sat down with the guys to play Smash Bros. And I also introduced the Moflin to the Kato lab’s own moflin. The moflin’s name became Gombóc.

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