...so obviously this isn't a post about my Misogi Shrine trip. My life has been insanely busy the past few days--today, for example, I finished packing my entire room into two suitcases and two boxes (and spent more than $200 sending them back to the States, EW), cancelled my cell phone contract,* hauled two boxes down the post office to send them off, sent my big suitcase to the airport, and then failed to get to the bank in time to transfer money back to my American account. In unrelated news, my arms hurt.
最近忙しすぎるから、みそぎ神社についてのレポートをまだ書き終わっていない。明日名古屋から東京に行って、水曜日に帰国する予定だから、今日は荷物を送って、携帯電話の契約をキャンセルした。
ところで、携帯の契約をキャンセルしに行ったとき、他のアメリカ人のお客さんもいたけど、英語で店員に叫んで、すごく失礼だった。店員は本当にかわいそうで、辞書を使って説明しようとしたら、お客さんに叱られた。私は本当に恥ずかしかった。「アメリカ人の皆はそんなに失礼じゃないから、ごめんなさい！」と言いたかった。いつも「デイナちゃんは普通のアメリカ人と似ていない」と言われているけれど、アメリカ人と言ったら、そんな失礼なアメリカ人を考えれば。。。本当に恥ずかしい。
Anyway, I'm definitely going to work on blog posts on the airplane (YAY, MORE AIRPLANE BLOGGING; WE KNOW HOW WELL THAT WENT LAST TIME!) if not before then, so expect actual posts with actual content at some point soon. And for those of you in California, I'll be back on Wednesday! (For those of you in the Boston/Providence area, I'll be back August 18.)
飛行機で東京からサンフランシスコまで九時間かかるから、飛行機で書こうと思う。たぶん時差ぼけのせいですごく疲れるが、その後で最後の日本の冒険についてのレポートをブログに載せる。
*It took friggin' forever and was also pretty awkward 'cause when I showed up at the Softbank store there was this American woman there who was LITERALLY SCREAMING in English at the employees. This woman was just being so horrible and treating the employees like they were idiots (OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE NOT GOING TO UNDERSTAND YOU SPEAKING ENGLISH, ESPECIALLY IF YOU KEEP TALKING TO THEM LIKE THEY'RE BABIES), I just wanted to apologize and say that not all Americans are that rude and aklslkfhdskjfhkjsahfdsakfaljka. 'Scuse me, being ashamed of my nationality.
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
This isn't a real post
Hey, everyone.
こんばんは、皆さん。
So last week I showed Nakano-san and Itou-san my blog, and apparently they showed it to a bunch of other people, and now I have gotten a bunch of requests to translate my blog into Japanese, because even if pretty pictures cross language boundaries, English does not. Unfortunately, translating my entire blog would be A. insane and B. insane and C. really hard, so I'm going to have to pass on that. However, I am going to try to at least make some of the upcoming posts bilingual, so that the Japanese-speakers can at least have some sort of idea what's going on. They're not going to be direct translations, because A. my writing style in English is pretty drastically different than anything that can even be attempted to be conveyed in Japanese and B. I'm not that good at Japanese (oh gosh, now will be the chance for you all to find out EXACTLY how weak my Japanese is, oh dear).
先週、中野宮司さんと伊藤宮司さんに私のブログを見せたけど、彼女たちは他の人たちに見せて、私はたくさんの人に「写真がいいけど、和訳したらいい」と言われた。あいにく、ブログを全部訳すのはちょっと無理だと思う。が、これからちょっとだけでも日本語を書こうとしようと思う。英語の書きスタイルと日本語の書きスタイルは全然違うし、英語より日本語の方がすごく下手だし、直訳じゃなくて、ただ同じような内容だ。まあ、日本の書きスタイルのほうはたぶん大人っぽいかもしれない。（笑）
In other news, I FINALLY SUBMITTED MY RESEARCH REPORT. It wound up being 79 pages (21,093 words); for comparison, my senior thesis was 28k. I feel like I managed to say most of what I wanted to say, although I probably could have said more if I had the time/energy/typing stamina. I haven't been sleeping well for the past...oh...three weeks or so, 'cause of the insanely gross heat, so right after I submitted my report, I passed out on my bed and napped for two hours like a pro. But then I felt a bunch better! My air condition is amazing~
今日、研究レポートを提出してしまった！７９ページになってしまった。言いたいことがたくさんあったからだ。卒業論文に比べて四分の三の長さだった。言いたいことは本当にたくさんあるよね。
最近蒸し暑さのせいでよく眠れないので、提出した後で、２時間昼寝した。エアコンはすばらしい～
Anyway, next time will be a REAL POST about my last tsukinamisai at Susanoo Shrine (noooo), my last calligraphy class (nooooo), and my last Japanese class (nooooooooo). Basically, it will be a bundle of sadness. Until then, I shall be listening to "Christian Bale Is at Your Party" over and over and over and over and over and over...
次回：須佐之男神社の月次祭、最後の習字稽古、最後の日本語の授業。つまり、悲しいことだけ。;_;
また、ね！
こんばんは、皆さん。
So last week I showed Nakano-san and Itou-san my blog, and apparently they showed it to a bunch of other people, and now I have gotten a bunch of requests to translate my blog into Japanese, because even if pretty pictures cross language boundaries, English does not. Unfortunately, translating my entire blog would be A. insane and B. insane and C. really hard, so I'm going to have to pass on that. However, I am going to try to at least make some of the upcoming posts bilingual, so that the Japanese-speakers can at least have some sort of idea what's going on. They're not going to be direct translations, because A. my writing style in English is pretty drastically different than anything that can even be attempted to be conveyed in Japanese and B. I'm not that good at Japanese (oh gosh, now will be the chance for you all to find out EXACTLY how weak my Japanese is, oh dear).
先週、中野宮司さんと伊藤宮司さんに私のブログを見せたけど、彼女たちは他の人たちに見せて、私はたくさんの人に「写真がいいけど、和訳したらいい」と言われた。あいにく、ブログを全部訳すのはちょっと無理だと思う。が、これからちょっとだけでも日本語を書こうとしようと思う。英語の書きスタイルと日本語の書きスタイルは全然違うし、英語より日本語の方がすごく下手だし、直訳じゃなくて、ただ同じような内容だ。まあ、日本の書きスタイルのほうはたぶん大人っぽいかもしれない。（笑）
In other news, I FINALLY SUBMITTED MY RESEARCH REPORT. It wound up being 79 pages (21,093 words); for comparison, my senior thesis was 28k. I feel like I managed to say most of what I wanted to say, although I probably could have said more if I had the time/energy/typing stamina. I haven't been sleeping well for the past...oh...three weeks or so, 'cause of the insanely gross heat, so right after I submitted my report, I passed out on my bed and napped for two hours like a pro. But then I felt a bunch better! My air condition is amazing~
今日、研究レポートを提出してしまった！７９ページになってしまった。言いたいことがたくさんあったからだ。卒業論文に比べて四分の三の長さだった。言いたいことは本当にたくさんあるよね。
最近蒸し暑さのせいでよく眠れないので、提出した後で、２時間昼寝した。エアコンはすばらしい～
Anyway, next time will be a REAL POST about my last tsukinamisai at Susanoo Shrine (noooo), my last calligraphy class (nooooo), and my last Japanese class (nooooooooo). Basically, it will be a bundle of sadness. Until then, I shall be listening to "Christian Bale Is at Your Party" over and over and over and over and over and over...
次回：須佐之男神社の月次祭、最後の習字稽古、最後の日本語の授業。つまり、悲しいことだけ。;_;
また、ね！
Monday, June 18, 2012
In which I continue killing bugs with inappropriate objects
So today I beat a cockroach roughly half as large as my fist to death with a frying pan while my roommates clutched each other and screamed.
...it was exciting!
Also, cockroaches are pretty hard to kill.
...in case you weren't aware of this fact.
FACT: Reading The Wee Free Men will make you 600% more prepared to hit creepy things with frying pans!
FACT: Japanese cockroaches are significantly creepier than American ones, because A. they're huge, and B. they have stabby spines on their legs!
Pictures from/post about Mt. Koya (aka Buddhism Disneyland) coming later this week!
...it was exciting!
Also, cockroaches are pretty hard to kill.
...in case you weren't aware of this fact.
FACT: Reading The Wee Free Men will make you 600% more prepared to hit creepy things with frying pans!
FACT: Japanese cockroaches are significantly creepier than American ones, because A. they're huge, and B. they have stabby spines on their legs!
Pictures from/post about Mt. Koya (aka Buddhism Disneyland) coming later this week!
Friday, May 18, 2012
I'm bad at updating; what else is new?
Hey, guys.
This is not a real update, but rather just saying HI I AM ALIVE AND MY DAD IS VISITING AND I HAVE TO WRITE A THING FOR THE CHUBU FULBRIGHT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WHICH IS EITHER SEVERAL SENTENCES OR A FEW PAGES* AND I SPENT TWO HOURS GOING OVER SUSANOO SHRINE'S FINANCES YESTERDAY** WHICH WAS UNEXPECTED BUT NOT BAD*** AND ALSO I AM REALLY TIRED BUT HANDBOOK UGH COHERENT SENTENCES GONE sklalkreakjreau
Real updates coming when real updates come.
*I asked for clarification and the clarification made it even less clear than it originally was, if that's possible.
**Apparently, at some point when I wasn't paying attention, I went from being "that weird kid who keeps hanging out at the shrine and asking weird questions" to "that weird kid who is competent enough to allow to help out" to "that weird kid who knows what she is doing and we are relying on her to actually be a member of this community and we are okay with her seeing our financial records and talking about serious stuff in front of her." I am...actually pretty okay with this. I am more concerned about other people not being okay with me.
***Actually it was really good, 'cause I had a bunch of questions about stuff having to do with the neighborhood association, and I didn't even have to ask them because they all came up. YES, serendipity.
This is not a real update, but rather just saying HI I AM ALIVE AND MY DAD IS VISITING AND I HAVE TO WRITE A THING FOR THE CHUBU FULBRIGHT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WHICH IS EITHER SEVERAL SENTENCES OR A FEW PAGES* AND I SPENT TWO HOURS GOING OVER SUSANOO SHRINE'S FINANCES YESTERDAY** WHICH WAS UNEXPECTED BUT NOT BAD*** AND ALSO I AM REALLY TIRED BUT HANDBOOK UGH COHERENT SENTENCES GONE sklalkreakjreau
Real updates coming when real updates come.
*I asked for clarification and the clarification made it even less clear than it originally was, if that's possible.
**Apparently, at some point when I wasn't paying attention, I went from being "that weird kid who keeps hanging out at the shrine and asking weird questions" to "that weird kid who is competent enough to allow to help out" to "that weird kid who knows what she is doing and we are relying on her to actually be a member of this community and we are okay with her seeing our financial records and talking about serious stuff in front of her." I am...actually pretty okay with this. I am more concerned about other people not being okay with me.
***Actually it was really good, 'cause I had a bunch of questions about stuff having to do with the neighborhood association, and I didn't even have to ask them because they all came up. YES, serendipity.
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