Comments on: Back to School http://joeinjapan.com/2008/04/20/back-to-school/ The blog of an American student abroad in Japan Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:21:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Trog http://joeinjapan.com/2008/04/20/back-to-school/#comment-77 Trog Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:13:16 +0000 http://joeinjapan.com/?p=29#comment-77 I'll second what YokohamaBogi said. Even with a graduate diploma in Japanese, when I first went to Osaka it took about 6 months to understand what the young guys in my dojo were saying - plain form Japanese was par for the course. In fact, if they had spoken polite Japanese to me THAT would have been the insulting thing... Enjoy your first spring in Japan - it's been many years since mine and it's nice to hear/see it through fresh eyes again! :) I’ll second what YokohamaBogi said. Even with a graduate diploma in Japanese, when I first went to Osaka it took about 6 months to understand what the young guys in my dojo were saying - plain form Japanese was par for the course. In fact, if they had spoken polite Japanese to me THAT would have been the insulting thing…

Enjoy your first spring in Japan - it’s been many years since mine and it’s nice to hear/see it through fresh eyes again! :)

]]> By: Zensayshun http://joeinjapan.com/2008/04/20/back-to-school/#comment-73 Zensayshun Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:25:29 +0000 http://joeinjapan.com/?p=29#comment-73 hey bro i came here after running across your vid on youtube and just wanna say great stuff it sounds like you are having a killer time out there!! i was out workin in iwate a couple years back and will never forget it. the people, food, girls, everything was unforgetable. oh and dont listen to yokokamabogi! lets see some vids of more girls chests! lol! naw but seriously though you might have to let that gf go for a hot minute! japan is no place to have a girlfriend!1 its like goin to an all you can eat sushi place except you cant eat fish! you can still get along but you are missing out on the best part am i rite! lol naw dont sweat it though it happens to all dudes who come to the big j! peace and keep posting vids hey bro i came here after running across your vid on youtube and just wanna say great stuff it sounds like you are having a killer time out there!! i was out workin in iwate a couple years back and will never forget it. the people, food, girls, everything was unforgetable.
oh and dont listen to yokokamabogi! lets see some vids of more girls chests! lol! naw but seriously though you might have to let that gf go for a hot minute! japan is no place to have a girlfriend!1 its like goin to an all you can eat sushi place except you cant eat fish! you can still get along but you are missing out on the best part am i rite! lol naw dont sweat it though it happens to all dudes who come to the big j! peace and keep posting vids

]]> By: YokohamaBogi http://joeinjapan.com/2008/04/20/back-to-school/#comment-72 YokohamaBogi Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:03:17 +0000 http://joeinjapan.com/?p=29#comment-72 That adventure club sounds like a lot of fun. I bet there is all kinds of great outdoorsy spots in Tohoku. I wouldn't worry about how the paragliding club spoke to you. Not to discount Lim-san's Japanese, but "They were speaking to us in a very plain way, the way you would only with very close family or to children" sounds like something an old Japanese person would say about the guldurn youngsters these days before shouting at you to get off his lawn. It is very common for senpai to address kouhai in that manner. It's not anymore haughty or arrogant than you would expect from a normal college kid, even in Japan. Not everyone speaks that way but its certainly not strange, especially on a college campus. And better not let the girlfriend catch you filming girl's chests like that youtube video @1:05 ;) That adventure club sounds like a lot of fun. I bet there is all kinds of great outdoorsy spots in Tohoku.

I wouldn’t worry about how the paragliding club spoke to you. Not to discount Lim-san’s Japanese, but “They were speaking to us in a very plain way, the way you would only with very close family or to children” sounds like something an old Japanese person would say about the guldurn youngsters these days before shouting at you to get off his lawn. It is very common for senpai to address kouhai in that manner. It’s not anymore haughty or arrogant than you would expect from a normal college kid, even in Japan. Not everyone speaks that way but its certainly not strange, especially on a college campus.

And better not let the girlfriend catch you filming girl’s chests like that youtube video @1:05 ;)

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