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The aim of this B-log is cover the sylabus of International Bussines Comunication, and , in the same time, transmit some information to the western part of my experience in Japan the Fall Semester of 2007 in Kansai Gaidai University. I hope you enjoy it. Here we go.

The trick of the nine fingers

The trick of the nine fingers
Ichi, ni, san, yon, go...

sábado, 6 de octubre de 2007

Sunday Mornings

One of the things I love more. Sunday mornings in Caffe Raffine. The park in front of my hause has some water games for the childrens. So the families goes there to have some sunbaths and the small kids to play with the water. The music is relaxing, the coffe is not that bad, and the atmosphere is great and paceful. The another day the cheff were out and ask when we were from, we answer from Spain and he bring us a magazine full of spanish dishes pictures. He was pointing and I was saying the names. I did understand that he loves garlic Soup of them all. It was half past five and I decided to prepare some Gazpacho before they close at six O'clock. So I give to him. I didn't know if he likes but I leke to prepare it to the man. Here is a video of were it is the place:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=6636821890

The next time I'll prepare him the Soup.

Karaoke night fever

Video shows more than words. A normal friday night, international friends after an spanish gourmet. Even the worst Karaokes in Japan has the facilities to enjoy enough. We were all night long in room number 15 dancing and singing non Japanese songs this time, but Kool and the gang and Another classics were the stars of the night. That another thing that you would not expect to do like to eat raw whale. Things that doesn't work in your Culture start to fit in your normal enjoy when you start to live in Here.
Photos Below :




and videos in my facebook:

Steep Fuji

Going back to the time. That's explain the new knowledges about how to travel in bus in Japan. The idea was to go to Fuji Sama. In the beginning was a easy trip. The travel agency "Help Us" to find the tickets. The situation where to fails attempts to get the ticket for more than 2 hours. The first session get us the idea of travel by a rented car when we listen the word Navigation. No maps, no troubles, even if the car will talk in japanese, we can understand left and right in japanese, so it will be easy. After three rent a cars shops, when nobody talk eigo (english), we knew that all the cars were already rent out, or simply they wouldn't want to get involve to explain every single detail of a renting proccess with or level of JPN, possibility discard because we're talking about Japanese, that helps you in every case. After that rent-Oddisey we return again to the agency where the guy working ther talks neither english. So there we were using lively the Yahoo! translator in Internet to make us understand what he says about how dangerous was to climb the mountain on this dates. So we get the tickets after 7 hours later we go out home. The bus works on nights, and having less places, you have the possibility to sleep with JR flips flops and curtains everywere. We saw Kyoto in the night before goes to Shinjuku and we use for first time the idea of bending machines in a restaurant. You enter, choose your food in the menu and pay in a machine that give you a ticket, to give to the waiter. Another right idea in Japan. The steep climb was somehow hard but the Sunrise up there, no words to explain. We were the three going up, and just five minutes before it starts people like ants come around us to enjoy that moment, half an hour later we were more that 20 people watching it. Unforgettable experience and my sport shoes brokes of running down. Like we are in Japan, we climbed Fuji guys!

Photos Below:

http://furman.facebook.com/n/?photo.php&pid=30909954&op=1&view=all&subj=722556890&id=28303453

http://winthrop.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2044267&l=4d69e&id=45505059

No time, no Hurry

Three weeks after the Opening this B-log I find time in the schedules live to continue a little bit more. More dinners, raw horse in a Yakitori Restaurant, many Japanese exam and the trip up to Fuji are the small things that has happened in this days. But is interesting how every day I'm more amaze to be here and I cannot believe it, as I tell by phone the another day, all the forms, recomendation letters, all the works to get money, and every step I did in the four months before came here it's worth. Every day around the community I said at least a couple of time a day. Ey, we're in Japan!. The just laugh and think that's true, I hope, or simply they think I'm silly, but anyway that is True. It's happening to me in the same way with the Japanese Lenguage. All the people around me knows more Japanese that I've never see. It's like that I have no clue about Kanjis, Hira, Kata or everything, but what is gonna be the difference when I came again to europe? We will see if this period worth as well.