An attempt at randomness
日本の蜘蛛が大嫌いです。 Trans. I hate Japanese spiders. They're like ten times the size as American ones and about a hundred times as disgusting. I feel like I'm in the Forbidden Forest when I walk to train station every morning. And as the biggest person by far in the neighborhood, I suppose that makes me Hagrid.
The Chunichi Dragons - Nagoya's baseball team - won the Japan Series a few weeks ago for the first time in fifty years. I don't pretend to not be apathetic about baseball, but it's nice for once to have your hometown team as champions. Next year the Cubs are at, what, one hundred years?
I don't believe I've ever talked about my diet, or asked the other bloggers about theirs (I'm guessing Luke's involves a lot of pasta). Sushi, contrary to popular opinion is reserved for eating out (外食) and special occasions, so I've only had it three or four times. I have a good amount of rice with every meal. Breakfast and dinner are quite similar, and we usually have red miso soup (a specialty to this area), a small salad or other vegetable, and maybe a little meat. Occasionally we'll have a Japanified (日本化した) version of an American, Korean, or Chinese dish. All in all, I like the food very much. It's a lot more subtle in taste and texture than Chinese food, not quite as savory as European food, but it's healthy and I don't get tired of it.
Blogs are so passive. Does anyone have any questions about Japanese culture/practices, the study abroad experience, etc.? If there's any good ones, I'll take a stab at answering them when I get back from Kyoto (!) next week.
The Chunichi Dragons - Nagoya's baseball team - won the Japan Series a few weeks ago for the first time in fifty years. I don't pretend to not be apathetic about baseball, but it's nice for once to have your hometown team as champions. Next year the Cubs are at, what, one hundred years?
I don't believe I've ever talked about my diet, or asked the other bloggers about theirs (I'm guessing Luke's involves a lot of pasta). Sushi, contrary to popular opinion is reserved for eating out (外食) and special occasions, so I've only had it three or four times. I have a good amount of rice with every meal. Breakfast and dinner are quite similar, and we usually have red miso soup (a specialty to this area), a small salad or other vegetable, and maybe a little meat. Occasionally we'll have a Japanified (日本化した) version of an American, Korean, or Chinese dish. All in all, I like the food very much. It's a lot more subtle in taste and texture than Chinese food, not quite as savory as European food, but it's healthy and I don't get tired of it.
Blogs are so passive. Does anyone have any questions about Japanese culture/practices, the study abroad experience, etc.? If there's any good ones, I'll take a stab at answering them when I get back from Kyoto (!) next week.
posted by James at
1:10 AM
3 Comments:
I liked the randomness. Questions: How's the weather? You might have mentioned something about it being hot. But what is it doing now? Are you taking a lot of Japanese language classes, or is it more culture classes, stuff like that? I can't remember what classes you said you were taking. Have you killed a Japanese spider yet? How close are you to the ocean, or are you more inland? What part of Japan are you really around anyway? I'm not familiar with Japanese geography.
I hope this makes the blog a bit more interesting for you. :D
haha randomness is a state of being
How was Kyoto? I ditto the question about the ocean. You should tell more jokes in Japanese. More anecdotes about your host family. Quote them and stuff... (and then translate :-))
okay that's all i got
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