My new friend


Introducing my youngest friend in Japan yet...her name is Lila (pronounced Rira, in Japanese). She lives in my apartment block.


She's so adorable. She's always wearing very cute clothes. In this picture she's wearing her ichigo (strawberry) outfit. Our conversations are limited to her pointing to her clothes and telling me about it. She seems to understand what I say though. Her thin, raspy voice which makes it even harder for me to understand her baby talk. My father & uncle would describe her voice as 生虫 (to be pronounced in Teochew), which literally means worms growing in the throat. Seriously, Japanese spoken by young children and old people are the hardest to understand.