Confusion
The last Language I tried to learn was Afrikaans, it was really easy... When I went to my first Japanese lesson yesterday it wasn't. I did a lot of smiling and nodding but I'm still not sure what I was learning. Kyoto city has a great system where you can attend free language lessons given by volunteers, I don't think they are on community service. I had a very keen elderly gent who produced sheets covered in Japanese writing and started reading to me, every now and again he would type a word into his electronic dictionary so I could follow what was happening ... Well that's the theory anyhow!
The major excitement yesterday was that we were supposed to be getting hit by a typhoon. It rained a lot and then some more but we reckoned in the morning that it was a pretty pathetic attempt at a typhoon. When I read in the paper this afternoon that four people were killed not all that far from Kyoto it was pretty sobering.
Thanks for the comments and e-mails I'm touched (not like that you pervert). I should point out that I have eaten more than just noodles and the Sushi/Sashimi is much better here than at home the Guinness however doesn't travel so well!
Ta, Roger
The major excitement yesterday was that we were supposed to be getting hit by a typhoon. It rained a lot and then some more but we reckoned in the morning that it was a pretty pathetic attempt at a typhoon. When I read in the paper this afternoon that four people were killed not all that far from Kyoto it was pretty sobering.
Thanks for the comments and e-mails I'm touched (not like that you pervert). I should point out that I have eaten more than just noodles and the Sushi/Sashimi is much better here than at home the Guinness however doesn't travel so well!
Ta, Roger
posted by Roger at
9:44 pm
2 Comments:
Hi Rog,
Congrats on not ending up in the arse of Japan as feared. Phew! And congrats also I suppose on all those other things: Not dying in a typhoon, getting propositioned, and not crushing tens of little people as you make your what must seem like an godzilla-like steps (relatively speaking) through the city to pick up your noodles/cars packed with screaming japanese families. So are they really short (i.e. my height) or is it just a legend (like radon gas)?
Most of all, congrats on this blog. Little hint: go to settings and change the thingy that let's people blog anonymously so that everyone won't have to sign up to blogger and continually forget their passwords.
Look forward to reading plenty more about your whacky, or should I say 'wha-ki' (bet 'wha-ki' means something in Japanese - look it up for me?), adventures.
Take it easy,
Don't eat too much dog,
Buckley
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Buckley, at 1:18 am
Hey,
I am glad that you have an interest in languages. I don't think that you should give up on Japanese you just need to give it time. You're funny when you say that you just smiled and nodded hahahaha.
Just enjoy your stay in Japan...I am sure it is beautiful.
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boo boo, at 5:28 pm
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