weirdness, life, japanese people
25 Feb 2002 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneisn't it wonderful how sometimes things happen that surprise you so much you just can't stop laughing?
1. in japan two years ago. walking with host parents and na-chan (sister) down the hill from kiyomizudera, the temple, past the little shops. stop and buy green tea/vanilla swirl icecream (the best). mama is wearing green shirt and white jeans, so i say, "mama, you match my icecream." mama: oh, great, i'm icecream. papa: *laughs* mama: papa, i am icecream. have some! *picking up the edge of her shirt* papa: *laughs* me: *fall over from shock* papa: no, i don't like it. mama: [says in japanese what i later find out means "please lick"]
2. my japanese prof. (otherwise known as the coolest advisor in the universe) wrote our textbook. my drill partner* and i are going over the speaking sections for all the old chapters today, and laughing at errors. prof. asks us to mention any we find, so i say, flipping the page, "there is this really bad one..." of an instance where a line got assigned to the wrong speaker, resulting in much confusion. prof: really bad! don't say that! bad girl! *hits my shoulder, laughing* me: *die of shock* prof: *to my partner* i think we will make her write a textbook, huh? and then we will pass it out and everyone will say it is really bad. partner: *no help at all* prof: *keeps hitting my shoulder--seriously, like 10 times* me: *can't stop laughing to save my life, or to explain more carefully what i was talking about*
tonight, i spent more than 3 hours on 20 japanese sentences and 6 greek sentences. the greek sentences took about 2.5 of those hours. ...does something strike you as strange?
*drill partner looks a lot like julian bashir, the dr from star trek: ds9. not quite as cute. but def. close enough.
1. in japan two years ago. walking with host parents and na-chan (sister) down the hill from kiyomizudera, the temple, past the little shops. stop and buy green tea/vanilla swirl icecream (the best). mama is wearing green shirt and white jeans, so i say, "mama, you match my icecream." mama: oh, great, i'm icecream. papa: *laughs* mama: papa, i am icecream. have some! *picking up the edge of her shirt* papa: *laughs* me: *fall over from shock* papa: no, i don't like it. mama: [says in japanese what i later find out means "please lick"]
2. my japanese prof. (otherwise known as the coolest advisor in the universe) wrote our textbook. my drill partner* and i are going over the speaking sections for all the old chapters today, and laughing at errors. prof. asks us to mention any we find, so i say, flipping the page, "there is this really bad one..." of an instance where a line got assigned to the wrong speaker, resulting in much confusion. prof: really bad! don't say that! bad girl! *hits my shoulder, laughing* me: *die of shock* prof: *to my partner* i think we will make her write a textbook, huh? and then we will pass it out and everyone will say it is really bad. partner: *no help at all* prof: *keeps hitting my shoulder--seriously, like 10 times* me: *can't stop laughing to save my life, or to explain more carefully what i was talking about*
tonight, i spent more than 3 hours on 20 japanese sentences and 6 greek sentences. the greek sentences took about 2.5 of those hours. ...does something strike you as strange?
*drill partner looks a lot like julian bashir, the dr from star trek: ds9. not quite as cute. but def. close enough.
