ふつな日がくる
クイーンを歌いながら
DONT STOP ME NOW
管理授業
Today I went to a "Principles of Management" class - all in Japanese - and can say nothing less than that it devastated me. I guess lecturing requires a different type of listening that I don't have and there were lots of complicated business terms involved, but I did catch a few things. Corporations have social responsibilities! Some companies in Japan colluded for government contracts! That's about it hahahah..
I wanted to take a picture because the class was pretty cool, but it probably would have been rude. It was stadium seating, and the people who weren't paying attention and talked the whole class all sat in the back, very clearly and voluntarily segregated, whereas in the US they would have just skipped class. He didn't care about them at all. He also made some examples of "obligations" by talking about riding on the train. I didn't catch the rest of it, but no US professor would ever have made a train reference. CULTURAL DIFFERENCE!
Okonomiyaki - "Japanese Pizza" (but not really)
We went out to a great restaurant tonight, kind of like Benihana except for that you do the cooking yourself. They bring you out a bowl of stuff and you prepare it however the correct way is.
Here's one type
Here's another
Afterwards we went back to Chibadai where we sat and asked each other "What should we do" for an hour. I love those moments, er, hours. It was pretty fun, and pretty familiar :P Ry and I noticed some guys break dancing over yonder so we went and asked in PERFECT Japanese if it would be cool to take some pics and then told them they were awesome. Little bit blurry on the pics, but you can see what's going on.
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Weirdo stuff at the mall
SO we were supposed to try to spot weird stuff in Akiba on Saturday, but there were quite a few weird things in this "hobby store" on the 3rd floor of the Yodobashi building in Chiba.
Not really weird, just funny
Cool a bunch of models
That store's catalog on the ceiling - nice use of space!
(somewhat NWS) ok now here's some weird stuff
Again, this place was 15% of one floor of a massive building whose other stores were completely "normal." This stuff is nowhere near hitting the mainstream of Japan, in my opinion.
Candids & Misc
Find the 6 alien heads and win a prize
Photography, Kaori chan & I
Lots of redeye
Me looking sketchy
A homemade dinner
DONT STOP ME NOW
管理授業
Today I went to a "Principles of Management" class - all in Japanese - and can say nothing less than that it devastated me. I guess lecturing requires a different type of listening that I don't have and there were lots of complicated business terms involved, but I did catch a few things. Corporations have social responsibilities! Some companies in Japan colluded for government contracts! That's about it hahahah..
I wanted to take a picture because the class was pretty cool, but it probably would have been rude. It was stadium seating, and the people who weren't paying attention and talked the whole class all sat in the back, very clearly and voluntarily segregated, whereas in the US they would have just skipped class. He didn't care about them at all. He also made some examples of "obligations" by talking about riding on the train. I didn't catch the rest of it, but no US professor would ever have made a train reference. CULTURAL DIFFERENCE!
Okonomiyaki - "Japanese Pizza" (but not really)
We went out to a great restaurant tonight, kind of like Benihana except for that you do the cooking yourself. They bring you out a bowl of stuff and you prepare it however the correct way is.
Here's one type
Here's another
Afterwards we went back to Chibadai where we sat and asked each other "What should we do" for an hour. I love those moments, er, hours. It was pretty fun, and pretty familiar :P Ry and I noticed some guys break dancing over yonder so we went and asked in PERFECT Japanese if it would be cool to take some pics and then told them they were awesome. Little bit blurry on the pics, but you can see what's going on.
One
Two
Three
Four
Weirdo stuff at the mall
SO we were supposed to try to spot weird stuff in Akiba on Saturday, but there were quite a few weird things in this "hobby store" on the 3rd floor of the Yodobashi building in Chiba.
Not really weird, just funny
Cool a bunch of models
That store's catalog on the ceiling - nice use of space!
(somewhat NWS) ok now here's some weird stuff
Again, this place was 15% of one floor of a massive building whose other stores were completely "normal." This stuff is nowhere near hitting the mainstream of Japan, in my opinion.
Candids & Misc
Find the 6 alien heads and win a prize
Photography, Kaori chan & I
Lots of redeye
Me looking sketchy
A homemade dinner
2 Comments:
Hi Bert!
Thanks for posting your dinner. It will look lovely on my desktop. Mmm...tofu. You should ask some kids why is it that gringo are so terrified of soy products. Especially here in the south, where soybeans are cultivated in great quantities! Perhaps it all harkens back to the old sadness. Somehow, we innately know that soybeans replaced cotton and continue to harbor inexpressable secret resentments...
I hope you continue to have fun! I remember when I could not make sense of lecture classes in toungue no. 2. If you stick with it you will find it gets easier.
Good luck!
Jen
Omg BERTICUS EATS TOFU!? did you eat it and like it? that shit thats on it is katsuobushi, which is a fish that they make into thin paper like strips that just tastes to me... fking nasty.
If you can stomach tofu, I wana take you to a resturant in japan you mite like when we go out there. MAKE YOURSELF LIKE IT YOU FAG.
try some of the soft tofu as well they make it so much better over there and you have to try YUBA just ask your okaasan what YUBA is. I think you'll like that.
Also bert.
kutsushita hakinasai, oii~! omae! kitanai gaijinsan, hakinasai.
srly. dont defame all the rest of the white americans out there by being a dirty gaijin. god have mercy.
<3 ondori
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