住めば都
今私は日本の習慣に慣れつつあります。例えば、おはしでご飯を食べます。傘をさしながら自転車を乗ることが出来ます。毎日通勤ラッシュの電車に乗って学校に行きます。嵐の曲も分かります。 にほんごの勉強を一生懸命しています。でもまだ、ネクタイは結べないし、豆腐は食べられません。時間がたつのは、とてもはやいです。日本への留学はとてもすばらしい機会です。だけどオレゴンの自然や家族や友達が少し恋しいです。でも日本大好き。
そして日本で沢山の留学せいに出会って、今私は世界中に友達が出来きたような気持ちです。
ゴールデンウィークを楽しみたいです！みなさんもhave a good golden week
キャルシー
＋ 友美より＜３ 笑
FROM MY HEART
Once you live in a place and get used to it that place becomes your home. Now Im really starting to get used to Japanese life and culture. I can skifully use chopsticks, make green tea, ride my bike and use umbrella at the same time, and am also using the rush hour trains every day to school. and im giving all my effort in learing japanese, still though i cant eat tofu or seem to remember how to tie my necktie. This study abroad experiance has been woderful. Im so happy to have had this opertunity. This time is going by SOO fast, its alomst over but although its true ive learned so much and do like Japan i miss my familly and freinds from Oregon and it`s nature. Here in japan i meet a lot of exhange students from other countries and we became great friends. Im happy because i feel like i will always have friends all over the world
love kelsey
have a good golden week!
I also have a japanese blog on a site called mixi that many of my friends also have so today i decided to put my mixi post plus translation on here.
c u in NA-NI-NU-NI land!
kels
Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
something about seeing an 80 something year old lady with pink hair brightens my day
Reading earlier today I came across the word hedonist, i`ve heard it before but I couldn`t exactly figure out what it meant. I was sure though that it has some kind of negative connotation just because of the ways I had heard it used but when i looked it up i found that its someone who believes that pleasure is the most important thing in life. and really i dont see whats wrong with that. I believe that enjoying ur self is the most important thing but not enjoyable memories of the past nor planing for ones in the future but right NOW....NOW is ALL that matters. I say this obdurately despite what anyone else thinks. Im the same way with money-money is to spend ok, it`s good for nothing else so what r u saving it for? Basically everyone should just do what pleases them regardless of criticism coming from ANYONE else; of course in respect and love of others. BUT ill stop philosophizing now cuz thats not what this blog is about.
P eace
L ove
U nity
R espect
Yesterday I went to the Opera, Yeah no joke, the Opera in Japan. The opulent concert hall was really something. It made me think about all the books ive read where people go to the opera up high in the boxes in corsets or those lil old fashioned glasses and even though I was in Tokyo and not London it still felt like that. unfortunately thats pretty much all I can say about it because I fell asleep. What a typically lame teenager I know blah blah but with the dimmed lights and the comfy vip seats the methodical piano melodies lulled me to sleep before the opera even started. The applause woke me and i was like what its over? the girl next told me that it was just intermission. After checking my face for drool I joined the students seated around me in conversation.
Because the school year only started April 4th im still getting to know my classmates. The girls are really chatty but besides quietly explaining to the dim-witted jock that sits next to me where Europe was during a test I hadnt spoken to the boys much more than good moring and what not. but i was still kinda sleepy so i turned back around in my seat and my eyelids were fluttering in between consciousness when the girl next to me keept looking at me and say beautiful hair yeah? beautiful hair... i was like what?...yeah assuming they were talking about the main character in the show we were just talking about but not really listening. Then I started to think and i was like WTF she has ugly hair and turned around to be like why do u like her hair like actually shes just ugly all around what r u talking about. Then all the boys looked at me and started saying stuff like yeah kelsey`s hair this and that. They were talking about me! of course I started blushing and that really got em going which made me blush more. Then the boy behind me asked if i Knew what karaoke was and if i liked it, only karaoke in Japanese happens to sound almost exactly like my favorite Japanese food so of course like an idiot i was all O yeah its my favorite thing to eat. Shaking their heads like what a shame they concluded I didnt know karaoke so then i told them my mistake and that actually I love going to the karaoke room/bar/club/party things which lead to what kind of music I like and ultimately asking me to go with them.
My new classmates are alot friendlier than last years and although it was a lil embarrassing Im glad yesterday happened Just because for the first time I really felt included
Today I went to Ikebukuro prolly the biggest coolest place for teens to hang out in Tokyo. Yeah guess who we ran in to... It was wierd lol
theres more to the story but this is already a long post and its late
ur kel-chan forever or until whenever
P eace
L ove
U nity
R espect
Yesterday I went to the Opera, Yeah no joke, the Opera in Japan. The opulent concert hall was really something. It made me think about all the books ive read where people go to the opera up high in the boxes in corsets or those lil old fashioned glasses and even though I was in Tokyo and not London it still felt like that. unfortunately thats pretty much all I can say about it because I fell asleep. What a typically lame teenager I know blah blah but with the dimmed lights and the comfy vip seats the methodical piano melodies lulled me to sleep before the opera even started. The applause woke me and i was like what its over? the girl next told me that it was just intermission. After checking my face for drool I joined the students seated around me in conversation.
Because the school year only started April 4th im still getting to know my classmates. The girls are really chatty but besides quietly explaining to the dim-witted jock that sits next to me where Europe was during a test I hadnt spoken to the boys much more than good moring and what not. but i was still kinda sleepy so i turned back around in my seat and my eyelids were fluttering in between consciousness when the girl next to me keept looking at me and say beautiful hair yeah? beautiful hair... i was like what?...yeah assuming they were talking about the main character in the show we were just talking about but not really listening. Then I started to think and i was like WTF she has ugly hair and turned around to be like why do u like her hair like actually shes just ugly all around what r u talking about. Then all the boys looked at me and started saying stuff like yeah kelsey`s hair this and that. They were talking about me! of course I started blushing and that really got em going which made me blush more. Then the boy behind me asked if i Knew what karaoke was and if i liked it, only karaoke in Japanese happens to sound almost exactly like my favorite Japanese food so of course like an idiot i was all O yeah its my favorite thing to eat. Shaking their heads like what a shame they concluded I didnt know karaoke so then i told them my mistake and that actually I love going to the karaoke room/bar/club/party things which lead to what kind of music I like and ultimately asking me to go with them.
My new classmates are alot friendlier than last years and although it was a lil embarrassing Im glad yesterday happened Just because for the first time I really felt included
Today I went to Ikebukuro prolly the biggest coolest place for teens to hang out in Tokyo. Yeah guess who we ran in to... It was wierd lol
theres more to the story but this is already a long post and its late
ur kel-chan forever or until whenever
Sunday, April 25, 2010
me gusta los domigos
I know ive been very vacillative about Japan and my life here, but on Sundays like this I truly do love it. I admit ive become a bit of a chauvinist, but can you blame me for feeling that Oregon's about a billion times better then this place in every way? or at least one way; trees, yes trees... Tokyoites don`t seem to know what those are. Hey bonsai trees dont count okay. I don`t mean to disparage a traditional art form or anything of the sort. They just don`t emit quite enough oxygen for me.
I usually spend my Sundays riding around on my sweet bike that my host dad lent me for the year. So when the rain and cold dont fetter me I go to my secret place, my secret bench; oh my ineffable bench. I spent so many Sundays searching for this place. Under an over pass a small alley road runs in to the intersection leaving a little triangle shaped piece of land left over thats not big enough to do anything with. This is the only public place I have found with grass and the best part is the cherry blossom tree that shades the bench. The purlieus of the bench is littered pretty badly and it isn`t exactly near my house, but I dont really mind the hour or so bike ride; im just happy to have my own lil place here. I remember the first couple months I was here and I would just ride around completely aimlessly unwilling to believe I couldnt find a park of some sort. So basically I just love sunny sundays where I can ride my bike to my bench and from there I can see Tokyo and I can think about it but it allows me to at the same time be detached from it. Then if I go a lil farther down the rode I can get an apple juice for 80 yen to drink on the way home at which time I always spend the time thinking, man this has to be the best apple juice. How monastic right, bike riding and apple juice; I miss the old days when thats what I did pretty much everyday. geeze am i just another person whining about the evanescence of childhood. It sure was great though, what if i dont WANT to grow up?...
I usually spend my Sundays riding around on my sweet bike that my host dad lent me for the year. So when the rain and cold dont fetter me I go to my secret place, my secret bench; oh my ineffable bench. I spent so many Sundays searching for this place. Under an over pass a small alley road runs in to the intersection leaving a little triangle shaped piece of land left over thats not big enough to do anything with. This is the only public place I have found with grass and the best part is the cherry blossom tree that shades the bench. The purlieus of the bench is littered pretty badly and it isn`t exactly near my house, but I dont really mind the hour or so bike ride; im just happy to have my own lil place here. I remember the first couple months I was here and I would just ride around completely aimlessly unwilling to believe I couldnt find a park of some sort. So basically I just love sunny sundays where I can ride my bike to my bench and from there I can see Tokyo and I can think about it but it allows me to at the same time be detached from it. Then if I go a lil farther down the rode I can get an apple juice for 80 yen to drink on the way home at which time I always spend the time thinking, man this has to be the best apple juice. How monastic right, bike riding and apple juice; I miss the old days when thats what I did pretty much everyday. geeze am i just another person whining about the evanescence of childhood. It sure was great though, what if i dont WANT to grow up?...
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