tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376826362012-01-16T12:33:21.724+09:00俺の留学生として生活 My Life as a Foreign Student白鷹岩一http://www.blogger.com/profile/00891039048376171457noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37682636.post-30954018221498005772008-04-04T12:45:00.001+09:002009-02-04T16:46:30.726+09:00

My friends,Now that the Kanji test is behind me, I've started to have a look at the forms of these ideograms that cause us so many sleepless nights. My interest in this is purely for fun - you may ask yourselves 'why does Petar look at Kanji for fun?!' ... I ask myself the same question all the time.I have concluded that the current 常用漢字 are simple, but at the same time annoying.Now, please don't

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Okay, so today、finally, after many months of preparation, is the Kanji test. All 1945 常用漢字タス誰アンド賂・・・・・FUCK!Kanken has lain untouched for many a day.......Words encountered once or twice and never again are slowly but surely escaping. Gems such as 普遍、 国璽 (okay, so THAT one won't be on the test, but still...)、儒教、凸凹、韻律、虞、褒める・誉める、直径、怪物、趣旨、膨らます and 憩い are now meaningless, MEANINGLESS!!!v(T_T)m(a kind

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It has been a long time since I last wrote something here, mainly due to 'write something on your blog!' falling waaaay down my priority list, and Facebook really taking over. That hasn't helped the six billion take 140-odd who aren't my Facebook friends though, and for that I apologise.From April '07 until the rains started, I rode my bicycle absolutely everywhere, fearing I wouldn't be able to

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Okay, a short spiel on where I've been and what I've done:I went to Kyoto during the spring holidays for about 48 hours with a Seishun Kippu - yes, local trains.... but I got annoyed at Nagoya and caught the Shinkansen to Kyoto - half an hour as opposed to two hours....I teach English in a cafe - basically, I get paid to drink beer and coffee, sit with Japanese people and explain lightbulb jokes

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Returning from my arubaito earlier this evening and checking my mailbox, I saw a notice （空室）stuck to the mailbox for Mr Slimeball- and the sticker bearing his name (笹沼勇佐） wasn't there...This, combined with the fact that since yesterday his electricity meter wasn't turning (come to Minesawa and see how easy it is to monitor people's electricity consumption), made me realise something - THE BASTARD

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After the heavenly silence of Nagano, the joy of seeing fellow ANU students in Japan, and buying a Nintendo DS-lite after waiting in line last Friday night at Yodobashi-camera, you'd think all was set nicely, right? Think again.... old problems come back, like the bad smell of last night's clump of natto that fell behind your table accidentally...This is, of course, Mr. Slimeball. He started

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In the last twenty minutes, because it was nearing midnight, I could no longer stand the banging of Mr Slimeball. I decided to knock on his door or ring his doorbell and ask him to cease and desist, but since it was late at night and he had a potential weapon (his banging ball), I asked the nicest person on my floor to come with me and talk to Slimeball. Getting to his door, we agreed he was

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I was going to write about the splendour of New Year, Christmas, the Japanese Orthodox Church, Sumo and seeing the Emperor and Empress, but this will all have to wait, as something else is on my mind at this very moment....There is a problem in Minesawa dorm - the idiot who lives in the room next to me.Without fail, that degenerate slimeball will bounce a ball in his room, and since the walls

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Okay, so it's really been 久しぶり for this blog. But it's the holidays now, so I have time.Japan is getting slowly colder, with frost appearing on the cabbage fields that I see on the way to/from Mitsuzawa-kamicho station. In Aomori, a long way away from Yokohama, it's snowing.My tutor and I went to Kamakura about three weeks ago, exploring the shrines and temples for which that location is famous.

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Life is interesting in the Minesawa dormitory when it isn't an exercise in enduring the idiocy of your fellow university-student male.Our rooms are 12 square metres, which is enough for one person to live in and clean without much trouble. Our rent is 8700 yen per month (A$100), which is about a fifth of what people who rent apartments near the university pay. The electricity and water ends up

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The following blog post is not intended for people well-versed in Japanese life. Think of it like an article teaching Japanese people to eat pasta パクパク rather than ツルツル - special target audience :)The wonder of the Japanese tavern (居酒屋) is something one must experience to appreciate. The following is a description of the Watami establishment near 横浜駅西口。First of all, we are welcomed with such 敬語 (

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I have found something new to spend my money on thanks to Saturday's field trip - Toraya sweets. Having a similar price per gram to sterling silver, Toraya sweets are worth every yen. Eating one block of Musashi-no over the space of twelve hours was the best part - the best 1700 yen I've ever spent.Along with that, there is one thing I've discovered about Japan - natto and sake are not my cup of

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A snippet of my last month and a half as gleaned from emails I've sent to my Year-in-Japan advisor at home.Oct 3I've arrived in Yokohama, everything is going well. My tutor and I havebeen running around Hodogaya ward office complexes all day, and finishedthe mountain of paperwork, much to our relief.Yokohama is a tad humid and warmer than I expected, which is good - nocolds to be caught! Oct 9All

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