天気予報について
(tenki yohou ni tsuite - concerning the weather report)
I wonder if lj can support japanese characters. Anyways, there are some thing in Japan that you can just rely on. Supermarkets and department stores play the instrumental of Auld Lang Syne at closing, subways and the Shinkansen run like clockwork, and the weather forecast is ALWAYS correct. THey even divide tomorrow`s weather into 3-hours segments and they`re never wrong... I put my faith in the yohou this morning and rode my bike to school, and although it`s raining right now, it wasn`t raining when I left for school, and the forecast said that the rain will be gone by 6, when I go home. (I don`t like biking in the rain) It`s amazing, in San Francisco weather forecast?, I think there`s some guy rolling a 20-sided die 6 miles underground "14- okay, today will be clear and sunny with highs in the mid-80`s" nevermind that it`s mid-february and raining as he says it" And I don`t knwo about the buses? but you`re lucky "if" the bus comes, nevermind "when", and a mental stable bus driver is about as common as a Shinkansen being an hour late in Japan.
Yesterday was lovely though, clear- blue skies... and I was stuck in absolute misery, surveying random Japanese people for my research paper in Japanese class. The worst part is what you have to say at the end* "Iroiro kotate itadaite doumo arigatou gozaimashita" For a native tongue that`s a mouthful, and for me it was just agonizing... oh well- it`s over with now... the pain and the humiliation. I aimed at people about my age, and ironically didn`t get one subject between the ages of 19 and 23. This pair of girls I thought had maybe just graduated from Jr. High ended up being 26 and 27. Then a pair of guys that I`d have put at my own age or a little older, and they were 16. It was, as they would say in Japanese "taihen". And it took so long that I didn`t even have a chance to vent by shopping at the various electronics goods stores in Sakae, hrmph.
Thanks to the wind I had an extremely embarassing moment the other day. I park my bike in the long line of bikes by the football\baseball field. I park it at the end, but by midday it`s somewhere in the middle, so I`m digging and unlocking it, when this HUGE gust of Nagoya wind comes, knocks the entire line of bikes over like dominoes, and I can`t balance against it, so I fall over under the mess too. As this happens there are a pair of Japanese students leaving campus from the nearby hill... so they come over and pick up the bikes, put them back, and I`m able to escape. Later my friend scolded me for not getting their numbers (they were cute) but O.O I was just SO humiliated that I couldn`t do anything but mumble a thanks and get out of there as fast as humanly possible.
I`m not sure my english is quite sane... but this one came up over lunch... words of wisdom from Japan:
"The gift of condoms? From girls who`re taken? That`s cold. That`s like buying a membership in the Ham of the Month club for a Jewish friend."
P.S. Friday econ, I made a point to be 5 minutes late, and the teacher was 10...
I wonder if lj can support japanese characters. Anyways, there are some thing in Japan that you can just rely on. Supermarkets and department stores play the instrumental of Auld Lang Syne at closing, subways and the Shinkansen run like clockwork, and the weather forecast is ALWAYS correct. THey even divide tomorrow`s weather into 3-hours segments and they`re never wrong... I put my faith in the yohou this morning and rode my bike to school, and although it`s raining right now, it wasn`t raining when I left for school, and the forecast said that the rain will be gone by 6, when I go home. (I don`t like biking in the rain) It`s amazing, in San Francisco weather forecast?, I think there`s some guy rolling a 20-sided die 6 miles underground "14- okay, today will be clear and sunny with highs in the mid-80`s" nevermind that it`s mid-february and raining as he says it" And I don`t knwo about the buses? but you`re lucky "if" the bus comes, nevermind "when", and a mental stable bus driver is about as common as a Shinkansen being an hour late in Japan.
Yesterday was lovely though, clear- blue skies... and I was stuck in absolute misery, surveying random Japanese people for my research paper in Japanese class. The worst part is what you have to say at the end* "Iroiro kotate itadaite doumo arigatou gozaimashita" For a native tongue that`s a mouthful, and for me it was just agonizing... oh well- it`s over with now... the pain and the humiliation. I aimed at people about my age, and ironically didn`t get one subject between the ages of 19 and 23. This pair of girls I thought had maybe just graduated from Jr. High ended up being 26 and 27. Then a pair of guys that I`d have put at my own age or a little older, and they were 16. It was, as they would say in Japanese "taihen". And it took so long that I didn`t even have a chance to vent by shopping at the various electronics goods stores in Sakae, hrmph.
Thanks to the wind I had an extremely embarassing moment the other day. I park my bike in the long line of bikes by the football\baseball field. I park it at the end, but by midday it`s somewhere in the middle, so I`m digging and unlocking it, when this HUGE gust of Nagoya wind comes, knocks the entire line of bikes over like dominoes, and I can`t balance against it, so I fall over under the mess too. As this happens there are a pair of Japanese students leaving campus from the nearby hill... so they come over and pick up the bikes, put them back, and I`m able to escape. Later my friend scolded me for not getting their numbers (they were cute) but O.O I was just SO humiliated that I couldn`t do anything but mumble a thanks and get out of there as fast as humanly possible.
I`m not sure my english is quite sane... but this one came up over lunch... words of wisdom from Japan:
"The gift of condoms? From girls who`re taken? That`s cold. That`s like buying a membership in the Ham of the Month club for a Jewish friend."
P.S. Friday econ, I made a point to be 5 minutes late, and the teacher was 10...