more wonderful things about japan...
- language lessons on nhk (which seems to be like equivilent of pbs or the bbc from what i can figure) - just tonight there's been english, spanish, italian and arabic
- another bit of international exposure on television: at night, there's a station that devotes part of its broadcast to showing broadcasts from other news agencies around the world - including the the bbc, and america is usually represented by world news tonight. the shows are broadcast as they were in their original format - you can hear the original language in the background, but it's also dubbed over lightly with japanese. what a great (and obvious) idea, though: to allow people see news from around the world in the original context in which it was presented to its primary audience
- chestnut rice
- japanese pickles (these is next on my list of foods to make)
- rice still warm from the rice cooker
- chopsticks - I love using chopsticks and am good at it (which is probably why I like to do it). when i eat with other people, they almost always comment on my chopstick ability: 'just like a japanese.' :)
- the reading glasses they provide for people to use at city hall
- in the ice cream section of many grocery stores, there's a small bin with those small wooden spoons - how practical! (today, I had a good morning. I went for a short bike ride along the river near the apartment, parked my bike at work, walked downtown and up roughly 125 stairs to a city park, took pictures from the top of a slide, spent about 45 minutes knitting in the park, walked back into town, bought ice cream, and ate it outside. ice cream for lunch. power lunch.)
- language lessons on nhk (which seems to be like equivilent of pbs or the bbc from what i can figure) - just tonight there's been english, spanish, italian and arabic
- another bit of international exposure on television: at night, there's a station that devotes part of its broadcast to showing broadcasts from other news agencies around the world - including the the bbc, and america is usually represented by world news tonight. the shows are broadcast as they were in their original format - you can hear the original language in the background, but it's also dubbed over lightly with japanese. what a great (and obvious) idea, though: to allow people see news from around the world in the original context in which it was presented to its primary audience
- chestnut rice
- japanese pickles (these is next on my list of foods to make)
- rice still warm from the rice cooker
- chopsticks - I love using chopsticks and am good at it (which is probably why I like to do it). when i eat with other people, they almost always comment on my chopstick ability: 'just like a japanese.' :)
- the reading glasses they provide for people to use at city hall
- in the ice cream section of many grocery stores, there's a small bin with those small wooden spoons - how practical! (today, I had a good morning. I went for a short bike ride along the river near the apartment, parked my bike at work, walked downtown and up roughly 125 stairs to a city park, took pictures from the top of a slide, spent about 45 minutes knitting in the park, walked back into town, bought ice cream, and ate it outside. ice cream for lunch. power lunch.)
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