Re: The "GREG IN JAPAN" Thread...
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 10:31 pm
Depending on my schedule and her schedule and budget either by bus or train
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I took a look at his blog and lost respect for him immediately when he boasted of sleeping with over 20 Japanese women (not including other foreign English teachers) in just the few years he's lived in Japan. This sort of prick is one of the worst types, in my opinion. Too many scumbags come here, treating this place like their own personal sexual playground. This sort of behavior is embarrassing._D_ wrote:He has a lot of stuff that is positive on Japan as well as negative. Some is funny. I must ask him why he has all the US WW2 propaganda material and none of the same material from Japanese sources of the time. Seems to play that over and over again but he also has had a lot of experiences in Japan as a teacher so that stuff at least is interesting...
It's best at night. Unfortunately, after the aquarium my J-Mom and daughter were too exhausted after the long day walking about. We decided to go in the late morning for lunch.davemerrill wrote:I love that giant Glico boy signage in Osaka. That's on our list for our next trip to Japan. Osaka I mean, not just the Glico sign.
I think that plays a lot of it. I think most of it is just them trying to work out their culture shock. I studied culture shock in my international business classes in college, since global business managment and strategic marketing was my major. So, I already knew what to expect when I first lived here, and as a result it didn't affect me so much.davemerrill wrote:Can't help but think a lot of the grumbly expat blogs are by people who came to Japan expecting it to be some sort of magical wonderland, and were depressed to find that it's a place like any other with the usual amount of good points and bad points.
That would be interesting to know. Some people just have a wanderlust, I suppose. Especially living here, I have met people who just go from country to country. I once knew a guy who took college classes in Jerusalem and studied Hebrew, then taught English in Korea, then later taught in Japan where I met him, then after that he studied Spanish in Guatemala, etc. There was another guy who'd studied Russian in Russia, had taught in Mexico, then a teacher with the JET when I knew him, and his plans after that was to go to either China or Hong Kong and study Chinese. That guy was a real language sponge and he quickly mastered up to the 2nd level of Japanese after only a few short years. Then there's a guy from England who worked here up until April. That dude has been everywhere. Throw a dart at a map and he's probably already visited the country it lands on. He never bothered learning Japanese, but he was just Mr. Adventure, hiking up Mt. Fuji barefoot, etc. Incredible._D_ wrote:And yet, I have to ask why leave at all? ...I have had friends living in Japan for years suddenly give up and head out somewhere else. I would love to sit down with them sometime and ask why.