Saturday, July 26, 2008

The culture shock is fading, but still present

I finally feel somewhat settled in with my apartment and my job. Maybe having a cell phone has helped, but I'm still without internet in my apartment. Actually, once I get internet I'll feel like a real boy again. Right now I'm still somewhat like Pinocchio.

I'm still getting used to all of the people staring at me almost everywhere I go. People like to just yell "hello" at me randomly. Usually when I reply with "hello" they just laugh.

A lot of young Japanese guys think it's cool to drive big American cars. Apparently they're really expensive and rare here. Yesterday I saw this young guy blasting some American rap song and driving around with 4 tv screens in his car. He was rapping along with the song but didn't seem to have any idea what he was saying. When he noticed me he stopped. It was awesome!

1 comment:

Dig Girl said...

I feel your pain. In Bismil the kids like to randomly yell "Hello donkey!" and laugh. So I often yell back "merhaba eshek!" and they tend to quiet down ;-)