Japanese blogs about life in America?

[Akelexre]

Hi all; I hope this message finds you well.

Obviously we all enjoy blogs (be they Gaijin Smash and/or others) about westerners and Americans living in Japan. I've been wondering if anyone knows about any good, "reverse" blogs: those kept by Japanese people living abroad.

As I can read a little bit of Japanese, I'm ok with (and prefer) blogs in Jpnese, though English is always cool.

I guess I'm just lookng for something a bit different. I can throw a stone and hit a blog about life in Jpn, but I don't think I've seen any reverse blogs at all. A bit of perspective is always nice, you know?

Later,
Akelexre

[羽之助]

http://www.maki.co.uk/

[crabity]

lol what do you want to know? I've got plenty of stories to tell, if you want to hear them. ^^;

Like on the first day... I looked at US from my airplane window and thought "Blue sea and green mountains! We're in AMERICA~!!" Then I got off the plane, and as we were driving through the highways, I thought "...why are the mountains brown???" (California)



For a long time, I couldn't figure out why they called it "purple mountains" in the america the beautiful song. I think I realized it finally got it two weeks ago though. The purple is suppose to be like, early morning before the sun comes up huh? We don't have that expression in Japanese so it was a little confusing.



People is more easygoing here. You don't have to worry about what people think. Like when I cut my hair or change my style, I would always be scared to go out, afraid that people will make fun of my new look... Took me 9 years to CONVINCE myself to stop worrying because no one's looking. The Japanese influence runs too deep. Even now, I still feel insecure... but I argue with myself and I think I've gotten a lot bolder. I've had a major change of style lately, I think.



Oh, and first day in US. I went to Albertons or Safeway, and it's just a normal grocery store, right? I was aweing at the HUGE cereal boxes, the HUGE milk bottles (they come in gallons!! I can't even hold it with one hand!!), etc. There are no words to describe how a visit to Costco was. I remember after the first grocery trip, I wrote a letter to my friend listing all these humongous things in America. The furnitures were huge too. And bedmaking was a pain.



Can't think of anything more for now.

[Pierrot le Fou]

www.dyske.com

[Crowley]

http://www.maki.co.uk/

It's time to play "find the photo of my ex-girlfriend"

[mikem]

Oh, and first day in US. I went to Albertons or Safeway, and it's just a normal grocery store, right? I was aweing at the HUGE cereal boxes, the HUGE milk bottles (they come in gallons!! I can't even hold it with one hand!!), etc. There are no words to describe how a visit to Costco was. I remember after the first grocery trip, I wrote a letter to my friend listing all these humongous things in America. The furnitures were huge too. And bedmaking was a pain.

This conversation comes up so often. Even my roommate in LA mentioned this to me when I asked her about the things that surprised her.

I even had a friend of mine at school as me to "bring back something huge from the grocery store!" So I asked her what she would do with it and where she would put it. She thought about it for a second and then was like, "Oh yeah, well nevermind. Just take a picture then." :rofl:

[crabity]

Something just reminded me of an episode way back when...

My teacher told us to do something, and the class didn't respond very loudly. So she said "I can't hear you!" or something like that, and so we (the ESL class) said "Yes sir!" She got really mad then. She's like "sir..? Sir?!" But we had no idea what she was talking about, so she finally taught us "It's not sir. You say "ma'am". Got it?"

[silentplummet]

If it were the Armed Forces I think you ESL kids would technically have been correct, but I'm not certain, never having served myself in anything but the civil air patrol.