konichiwa
Monday, June 22, 2009
the keyboards in japan are really hard to type on. so far, i have noticed that everything in japan is cute and efficient (which i love) but that the girls here all wear high heels... even when they are site seeing... in the RAIN (which i do not like). fortunately, the food is delicious, the subways are impressively clean, and overall, japan has been pretty great so far. also, the trains go 180 miles per hour. omg, why don't they have that in california?today, a four year old girl japanese girl who speaks perfect english taught me to count to ten in japanese. it was exciting to learn some words, especially since people keep trying to talk to my asian self in japanese before they realize i'm a dumb tourist and start the how-do-i-get-to-the-train charades, but it was also a low point to learn numbers from a bilingual four year old who can read (read!) in multiple languages. I like to think she'll suffer from some psychological malady for being overly cute and efficient, and that being a dumb mono-lingual american has some unknown benefit. (a big ego?)
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Do you remember how to count? Has it actually come in handy? *grin*
I want to take you back to school more often; you could teach them a lot, and they could teach you more.
(They're five, by the way!)
I want to take you back to school more often; you could teach them a lot, and they could teach you more.
(They're five, by the way!)
Bullet train: yea those trains in Japan are really nice...they almost feel like flying really low! Actually, I CA, that is what the budget initiative a year ago was about: a high-speed bullet train from SF to LA, which would be awesome...except that, given the state's budget, I bet that money will get moved to something else more important...oh well.
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