Clearly, It's a Monkey's Paw
Right before lunch time these two guys stopped us to talk to us, which doesn't happen as much as I thought. Mostly people just stare a hole into your head, too shy to say a thing. But anyways, they went on to tell me that they wanted to make "America or Canada" friends. I gave them my email and one guy emailed me and said "You can ask me everything you want to know". I'm guessing the Japanese equivalent of that phrase isn't so...cult leader-esque sounding.
In Japanese literature we started the actual "Literature" part of the course. Since I'm a dork, I find it a lot more interesting than I thought I would. We are reading a book called "Southern Exposure", an anthology of essays written by or about Okinawa. Okinawa is the southernmost prefecture of Japan. It's compareable the relationship between America and Hawaii. Okinawa is the island with the huge Marine base on it. Which is a huge issue in Okinawa. They aren't too happy about the whole thing. After all, Okinawa was actually an independent nation before Japan took it over. ..But that's a whole other subject.
Today was a nice 18 degree blue skied Tokyo day. I went with Simon and Quentin to the top of one of the older Hosei buildings since it was nice weather. It's where the "cool" kids hang out I think.
I wish I could think of a word that means "2" and goes with "French". It would be a better caption to this picture. Notice the shades on Simon there. This is an example of Japanese fashion. Only Simon could pull off these travesties.
This is a picture of the cafeteria portion of Hosei. It's been really crowded lately with first year students. We know that they are first year students because I see that they carry books and not make up.
Yasukuni shrine from the top of the building. I wish I would have got a picture of this during the cherry blossom season, but if wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola, eh?
Some camera happy moments.
I was going to add some more pictures but I need to be more organized about this. So I'll semi-organize them into categories and post individually. Yeah...that will work one time I'm guessing. Anywho, expect some sakura pictures and such soon.
In Japanese literature we started the actual "Literature" part of the course. Since I'm a dork, I find it a lot more interesting than I thought I would. We are reading a book called "Southern Exposure", an anthology of essays written by or about Okinawa. Okinawa is the southernmost prefecture of Japan. It's compareable the relationship between America and Hawaii. Okinawa is the island with the huge Marine base on it. Which is a huge issue in Okinawa. They aren't too happy about the whole thing. After all, Okinawa was actually an independent nation before Japan took it over. ..But that's a whole other subject.
Today was a nice 18 degree blue skied Tokyo day. I went with Simon and Quentin to the top of one of the older Hosei buildings since it was nice weather. It's where the "cool" kids hang out I think.
I wish I could think of a word that means "2" and goes with "French". It would be a better caption to this picture. Notice the shades on Simon there. This is an example of Japanese fashion. Only Simon could pull off these travesties.
This is a picture of the cafeteria portion of Hosei. It's been really crowded lately with first year students. We know that they are first year students because I see that they carry books and not make up.
Yasukuni shrine from the top of the building. I wish I would have got a picture of this during the cherry blossom season, but if wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola, eh?
Some camera happy moments.
I was going to add some more pictures but I need to be more organized about this. So I'll semi-organize them into categories and post individually. Yeah...that will work one time I'm guessing. Anywho, expect some sakura pictures and such soon.
posted by Scot @ 20:47
1 Comments:
At 18/4/06 04:36,
Anonymous said…
bowl of granola? you are too much!
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