BACK TO SCHOOL!

Hello, blog! Today was the first day back to school since the golden week break. Half of the class is gone now which is sad. Nothing much happened today, so maybe I’ll do a little update about my feelings toward being in Japan/being alone.

UPDATE
Japanese people are very quiet and don’t say what’s truly on their mind to preserve the of culture of politeness. This way of thinking is called 建前 (tatemae). They are also very clean. This is all to say that recently, Japanese people have been increasingly resembling the inner-workings of my father. I think that he’s a very reserved man and doesn’t say what’s actually on his mind. He likes things organized and (mostly) clean. Maybe I am just thinking about my father often lately.

Anyway, everything else about Japan is fine. One thing I love about Japan is the clothing. I realized this about myself: I LOVE STRIPES! I don’t know how I never figured it out earlier in my life, because as a child, my favorite shirt was this blue and grey striped long sleeve. Hence, today I bought a short-sleeved shirt with grey stripes and a hood. I feel like a cool assassin wearing it. Japan has lots of striped things.

I also love the construction workers here. In America, usually the construction workers are masculine. In Japan, they don’t care about that kind of stuff. These construction workers were literally hitting a morning aerobics class right outside my window. It was so so so cute:



That’s another thing I love about Japan: everything is generally cuter from the food to the people to the train station alert sounds to the old women walking around with their canes to the construction workers. As a child, I was more into Japanese style cute things as opposed to Barbies and Bratz so I feel like I’m doing myself a service witnessing all of these cute things.

I know I said I was going to input photos from Universal Studio, but I really don’t want to right now. I just don’t feel like it :P. Instead, I will teach you some Japanese I learned today! “How many?” in Japanese is “いくつ(ikutsu.)” For example, “how many apples are there?” would be “りんごがいくつありますか(ringo ga ikutsu arimasuka?)” A little nihongo for you. じゃね！