Japan is not only sashimi

Japan is not only sashimi
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# Posté le jeudi 12 février 2009 03:32

Your plum is in bloom

Your plum is in bloom

This post might be a sweet thought for you mummy.

In Japan the first flowers in bloom are plum tree's flowers. Then later, it's sakura's flowers turn. The last one are the peach tree's flowers.

I remember since I was a little girl ( yôjo toki kara) You have called me “My plum”.
Even now you still use this sweet nickname.Time flies and I forget to tell you how I find this nickname pleasant to the ear.

"Po, my plum" you used to say
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# Posté le jeudi 12 février 2009 03:30

I don't care because I know I make good coffee!

I don't care because I know I make good coffee!

Yesterday was one of the happiest day I spent in Japan ( special thanks to Miyako who is unfortunately going back to Bangalore on Monday ) But yesterday was yesterday, or I should say yesterday was holiday. Today I had to go back to work.

This morning every thing seemed to be ok. I found myself talented . I almost reached the highest point of irony and hypocrisy.

“You are right I'm so stupid I should know this by heart^^”
Or
“I'm so stupid, I shall speak fluent Japanese after all”

I have started to get on with this stupid girl each day I play.

But today, in the evening, they almost succeed. I almost cry in front of them. I guess I was not crying. It was more tears of anger I felt . I know I had tears, I saw me in the mirror^^.

There is few thing I can't bear.
1. the idea of my boss spying on me.
2.When my boss talk to me in Japanese even if she knows I cannot understand all the thing she says.

I don't know how to speak Japanese I agree, but at least I have started to understand it more.
So I have started to understand for example, that my boss makes jokes about me in Japanese behind my back.

A Talented Stupid Girl^^ don't worry she is going to learn Japanese more and more.
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# Posté le vendredi 06 février 2009 08:56

How can you feel bad when you take such meal in the evening?

How can you feel bad when you take such meal in the evening?
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# Posté le jeudi 05 février 2009 09:09

My boss betwitching voice

My boss betwitching voice

Things get better. I succeed my two weeks exams.

Just jocking I'm still feeling treated like a pet, but I get used to. Sometimes I'm not smiling I'm almost laughing. Let's see :






Today when I started to work one of my collegue came with some french foods such as baguettes , rillettes... (most of you are french you should get it) and explained me we were going to have a french lunch.

I was not very hungry...but come on fresh baguette !!!
I was working at the reception, waiting to see if I was going to be invited or not. One of the girl from the reception, Yuki, invite me to join them

Then I heard from the table Hikuko (to sum up Hikuko is Yubaba number 2 or my boss' right hand) saying in japanese :
« No Pauline stays at the reception »

Yuki heard and told me « Oh sorry forget about what I said !»with the most polite smiles that she could do.

So the situation was kind of funny. In the same room I was alone at the reception to answer all the calls, and next to me there were 5 people eating and laughing.

Just stop few minutes...How could I not feel bad !. Of course they want me (or two of them) to feel bad it was so obvious. It was just to remind me what was my place here.

How perfidious ! Because it is this kind of behaviour that reinforces doubts about your skills and about yourself. Of course I knew I didn't do something wrong. On the contrary I answered to each call, I kept doing my research for the institute.

I was just feeling streessfull because I had to answer each call at the reception with my insufficient japanese. And I had to do this « going-coming » trip several time and to interrupt their « private french lunch » to beg someone to help me answering on the phone.
What was the aim?
My opinion is first this prove to every one I was unable to answer on the phone. Second It was a good way to have fun.

To be honest I didn't have fun. More later Jennifer the only french girl working at the school told me in private : « This is completly stupid the idea of let you answering on the phone, it's bad for you and it's also bad for the company »
I keep my mouth quiet, Jennifer is thirty three years old . I wanted to say « This is very nice of you Jennifer but that didn't help. It not at me that you should tell this »

« elle porte de plateaux lourds à ses mains d'enfants »

Next episode ...in process

Anyway (and also because I want to change the subject) My title is refereing to Hayao Miyasaki's fan. (I'm part of them. I mean I'm not a FAN but still). I didn't tell you before, the first day I went to Japan, at my office, when I heard my boss voice for the first time I though « No !!! she as exactly the same voice as Yubaba !!! ».

I'm still astonished by this similarity. Yubaba is a character from « Chihiro » one of the most famous Hayao Miyasaki's film.
Yubaba is a malicious witch who runs with a iron hand a bathing place.
What is interesting Yubaba as a twin another witch who is amost her opposite...how ironic !

And please don't tell me I'm like Chihiro !
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# Posté le mercredi 04 février 2009 11:40

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