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Today I went to the ACC to work out and do a little studying. My home environment is not very conducive to focusing on my Japanese textbook, and so I ran through a couple of lessons while eating fish and chips. Damn, I'd forgotten how cracky my textbook was back at Exeter. Japanese for Everyone features Michael and Barbara Webb, two newcomers to Tokyo working for some industrial company. Their guide and friend Tsuchida-san keeps hitting on Barbara, who, according to the character profiles in the introduction, is 'always looking for something new to do.' Michael-san makes a point of telling a coworker that he'd noticed all the young pretty women working at the office, but that it should remain a secret from Barbara-san.
IIRC, my fellow Exonians regularly and gleefully pointed out how everyone was a pimp in the texts. ^_^
I'm physically tired, which might mean I overdid the working out since I'm woefully out of shape (the heartrate monitor was not happy with me, nosirree), but that's okay. Learn through trial and error and all that.
I noticed something today, and y'all over in the States will have to confirm or deny this for me: Do we have McCafe's in the States? It's a subsidy or something of McDonald's, and is characterized by the slanted, brown 'McCafe' printed onto those outdoor umbrella table thingies. I've seen them in Singapore and Taiwan, and I don't know if they exist elsewhere. Always in the vicinity of a McDonald's restaurant, of course, but usually having a separate color scheme more apropos to a coffee-drinking, cheapo-Starbucks clientale.
I know that McD's doesn't offer iced Milo drinks in the States; I have only found this in Singapore McD's, and I love it. Yummy.
Seriously, when you travel, popping into a fastfood chain where you've got your local menu memorized and comparing what dishes are or aren't available is fun...and sometimes depressing because occasionally you find a gem of a food item that isn't offered back home. (Deep fried McD apple pies and iced Milos, mmm.) During my TIES program, there was a kid who hated everything Japanese --culture shock in a bad way-- and only ate at McD's or Wendy's. And of course the food tasted weird, because they didn't use the same ingredients/agricultural products as the stores in the States.
Why the hell am I talking about McDonald's?
I'm tired, methinks. Mmm, bed.
IIRC, my fellow Exonians regularly and gleefully pointed out how everyone was a pimp in the texts. ^_^
I'm physically tired, which might mean I overdid the working out since I'm woefully out of shape (the heartrate monitor was not happy with me, nosirree), but that's okay. Learn through trial and error and all that.
I noticed something today, and y'all over in the States will have to confirm or deny this for me: Do we have McCafe's in the States? It's a subsidy or something of McDonald's, and is characterized by the slanted, brown 'McCafe' printed onto those outdoor umbrella table thingies. I've seen them in Singapore and Taiwan, and I don't know if they exist elsewhere. Always in the vicinity of a McDonald's restaurant, of course, but usually having a separate color scheme more apropos to a coffee-drinking, cheapo-Starbucks clientale.
I know that McD's doesn't offer iced Milo drinks in the States; I have only found this in Singapore McD's, and I love it. Yummy.
Seriously, when you travel, popping into a fastfood chain where you've got your local menu memorized and comparing what dishes are or aren't available is fun...and sometimes depressing because occasionally you find a gem of a food item that isn't offered back home. (Deep fried McD apple pies and iced Milos, mmm.) During my TIES program, there was a kid who hated everything Japanese --culture shock in a bad way-- and only ate at McD's or Wendy's. And of course the food tasted weird, because they didn't use the same ingredients/agricultural products as the stores in the States.
Why the hell am I talking about McDonald's?
I'm tired, methinks. Mmm, bed.