Archive | February, 2010

25 February 2010 ~ 15 Comments

Closing in on 200000 Served!

Seems like only weeks ago I was looking at 100000 and now I’m looking at 200000! If averages hold true it’ll happen today or tomorrow. It’s really overwhelming to me and once again I want to thank all of my readers and followers for their continuing and enthusiastic support of loco in Yokohama. When I [...]

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22 February 2010 ~ 5 Comments

Conversation 2/22/10: I should ask my wife pt. 2

After a three week hiatus, my private student came to our lesson prepared to resume our conversation on the good points of being Japanese…at least he said so. At the same cafe in Yokohama… Me: So, let’s get started… Student: Wait! I want to answer your question from before… Me: What question? Student: About Japanese [...]

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22 February 2010 ~ 35 Comments

Top 10 “Ebonapanese” words and phrases I’ve created

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Over the course of my past 7 years in Japan (some of which I have spoken the Japanese language)  I have found that many of my feelings I just can’t express well in Nihongo. For example, all the feelings I would use “Fuck” to express in English, I simply couldn’t feel with its Japanese counterpart. So I was forced to create my own [...]

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14 February 2010 ~ 21 Comments

Conversation 2/14/10 Valentine's Day: I love Black People!

Conversation 2/14/10 Valentine's Day: I love Black People!

5 minutes ago at the corner of my apartment with a Japanese woman I’d never seen before: Woman: Excuse me Me: Yes Woman: Where are you from? Me:…err…America… Woman: Oh. I just came back from Africa… Me: Uh huh? Woman: I love black people! Me: Lucky me… Woman: Ee? Me: Me, too. I love black [...]

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10 February 2010 ~ 21 Comments

Conversation 2/09/10: Everybody knows

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Conversation with a Japanese friend at a café in Yokohama Me: Can I ask you a question? Friend: Sure. Go ahead… Me: Well, last week my student told me that a staff person had asked her if she were 100% Japanese… Friend: Really? A staff person? Why? Does she look like a foreigner? Me: She has [...]

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08 February 2010 ~ 16 Comments

Conversation 2/06/10: Are you 100% Japanese?

A conversation with my student over coffee at a Starbucks in Yokohama: Me: So what did you do yesterday? Student: I went shopping at Jiyugaoka. Me: …in Jiyugaoka… Student: Sou sou sou sou…in da ne. Me: That’s good. So, what did you buy? Student: I bought  nothing, but I meet…met a very nice woman. Me: Really? In the [...]

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07 February 2010 ~ 26 Comments

200 Posts ago…

200 years ago an 8.0 earthquake in Missouri caused the mighty Mississippi River to flow backwards. 200 months ago the number one movie was about a weatherman who found himself living the same day over and over. 200 weeks ago I moved from the wasteland of Saitama Japan to the greener pastures of Yokohama,,,the grass [...]

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06 February 2010 ~ 10 Comments

Can you be more Japanese?

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Woman walks by a shop window and stops to check herself in her reflection. Amid a few adjustments she notices something in her peripherals. Something startling. She turns her head fully and takes it in. She’s aghast! She turns away quickly and begins to walk faster than before. She glances over her shoulder every 4 [...]

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04 February 2010 ~ 17 Comments

The trials and tribulations of teaching English in Japan pt.3

“Do you like to make lessons for our classes?” I asked Yoshida-sensei making sure my smile was intact. She flinched and said, “Unnnn chotto….” (well, kinda, sorta…) which I’ve learned is as strong a ”no” as you’re gonna get sometimes in Japan. But I treated it like a half-hearted yes. “Well,” I said, keeping upbeat. “I really like making [...]

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02 February 2010 ~ 13 Comments

I should ask my wife: Conversation 2/1/10

lesson at a café in Yokohama with a Japanese private student Student: So, what is your book about? Me: It’s about some of my experiences in Japan… Student: Really? That sounds interesting. Me: While we’re on the topic, do you mind if I ask you a question? Student: No problem…what is the question? Me: Well, [...]

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