kenleewrites in 日本

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This post is going to be about food. Lots of food. Really. Lots of food. I was watching tv asahi’s Onegai! Ranking (お願い！ランキング) the other day when they were featuring “super-size” (デカ盛り, deka mori) meals. The 3 restaurants they ranked are in Saitama. So if you do live nearby, please give it a try and tell me how it went.

Oh. The picture above, that’s a mega 4kilos worth of solid yakisoba goodness. Think you can handle ¥5000 worth of yakisoba? ^^. Finish it within 20 minutes and you get a ¥10,000 cash prize. Girls get an additional 5 minutes.

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What would happen if I fell into a Black Hole in a nutshell by astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Nope. I have no intention of getting myself spagettified. And yes, Spagettification is a real word.

（１７／１）今日はある事件で気づいた。いつも考えたくなかったけど、今日はちゃんと目が覚めた。自分の日本語レベルは低い。簡単に言うと、僕は日本語が下手。下手だけど、もっと上手になりたい。毎日辞書を引かないぐらい上手になりたい。日本に来てから今まで毎日日本語を話しているし、読んでいるし、日常のメールも書いている。作文や長い文章はこれまで完全に書いたことはなかった。前回書いた時は四年前の基本日本語の授業での「自己紹介」の作文だった。今日から、必ず毎日、日本語のレベルを上げるため、１ページ以上の日記を書くのを決心した。

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Japan is well known for her honesty. If you dropped something, chances are it’ll still be there when you return to look for it. I don’t think anyone appreciates this honesty as much as a kendoka (剣道家), a kendo practitioner. In Japan, instead of carrying our kendo gear around everywhere, it is perfectly ok to just leave it in a corner out of everyone’s way. Leave it in a corner, go shopping, have lunch and it’ll still be there when we get back.

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