Show me the money

Takase-san requested my presence in Tokyo once again for another scholarship ceremony to mark the new academic semester. It was a great excuse to go up to Tokyo and for them to pay for my shinkansen. After travelling on the juuhachi kippu for the duration of my spring break and sitting on the local trains for hours at a time, I couldn't wait for a chance to ride the shinkansen again. It was bliss, the journey from Nagoya to Tokyo took less than 2 hours compared to six and a half hours on the local trains.

Naturally, I wowed everybody with my perfect jikoshoukai, so much so that someone asked if I was a native speaker! So now I know why the Japanese teachers make us practise them so much...