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1) If you gave a Japanese person a choice between their life and their parking space, they would have to think for a very long time before giving you an answer.
2) The yakuza are alive and well. Don't ask me how I know this.
3) It is strangely disconcerting to live in a country where no one even bothers to lock their cars. My high school was well known for being the only school in the state (and maybe the country) where students could regularly leave their lockers open all day with no worries. Not locking their cars here gives me the same sort of feeling.
4) New Jersey is not where cows come from, no matter how much they want it to be.
5) If you were to cross reference "anal" and "recycle" you would find a picture of Japan.
6) The plastic lanterns strung up for the spring festivals are already being lit at night and are utterly gorgeous.
7) Whoever decided to start painting their roof tiles a deep, metallic blue deserves a medal.
8) You will never go hungry as a English teacher in Japan. Souvenirs are tasty.
9) The hardest thing about driving here is parking my tiny car and figuring out the speed limits which aren't labelled outside of cities.
10) The Japanese have landromats not so they can wash their clothes, but so they can dry them during the rainy season. (They were very curious as to what we did in Edinburgh because it rains all the time.)
In other news, I made a half hour lesson last for an hour today. Go me! It's for an older couple who are going to America in June so they want to know "tourist" speak, but they hardly speak any English so I end up saying as much as I can in Japanese as well, which they like. I also taught one of my classes hangman which is a damn good time waster when your students can't remember the alphabet very well;) Have been given a new class already on Wends. with highly advanced students. It's format is very different than any of the other BENDA classes - the first hour is spent watching and asking questions about the student's presentations on a topic of their choice, while the second half is discussion of various articles and texts (chosen at my discretion *evil laugh*). It looks like it will be a lot of fun all things considered. Tomorrow is my day off (I work on Saturdays, with Sun-Mon off) so I'm going to explore the nearby town before having a movie night with one of the other teachers.
2) The yakuza are alive and well. Don't ask me how I know this.
3) It is strangely disconcerting to live in a country where no one even bothers to lock their cars. My high school was well known for being the only school in the state (and maybe the country) where students could regularly leave their lockers open all day with no worries. Not locking their cars here gives me the same sort of feeling.
4) New Jersey is not where cows come from, no matter how much they want it to be.
5) If you were to cross reference "anal" and "recycle" you would find a picture of Japan.
6) The plastic lanterns strung up for the spring festivals are already being lit at night and are utterly gorgeous.
7) Whoever decided to start painting their roof tiles a deep, metallic blue deserves a medal.
8) You will never go hungry as a English teacher in Japan. Souvenirs are tasty.
9) The hardest thing about driving here is parking my tiny car and figuring out the speed limits which aren't labelled outside of cities.
10) The Japanese have landromats not so they can wash their clothes, but so they can dry them during the rainy season. (They were very curious as to what we did in Edinburgh because it rains all the time.)
In other news, I made a half hour lesson last for an hour today. Go me! It's for an older couple who are going to America in June so they want to know "tourist" speak, but they hardly speak any English so I end up saying as much as I can in Japanese as well, which they like. I also taught one of my classes hangman which is a damn good time waster when your students can't remember the alphabet very well;) Have been given a new class already on Wends. with highly advanced students. It's format is very different than any of the other BENDA classes - the first hour is spent watching and asking questions about the student's presentations on a topic of their choice, while the second half is discussion of various articles and texts (chosen at my discretion *evil laugh*). It looks like it will be a lot of fun all things considered. Tomorrow is my day off (I work on Saturdays, with Sun-Mon off) so I'm going to explore the nearby town before having a movie night with one of the other teachers.
