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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...

domingo, 18 de noviembre de 2007

One month to go back, in the middle of the W Cultural Shock

And four week and the experience is done. I do not realize that has an end. I cannot right now make a balance and I start to see that will not happend until I will be at home. Is extrange and we did not analize those but the feeling of missing starts now. I wanna see my friends in Spain, if they still remember me. I wanna sit and drink a good coffe. Make a meal by my parents, and talk with my grandpas at dinner. I miss them and the food they cook. So here we go, start the W proccess, a little bit late, but it cames on time more or less. Like we analized all happend in the right moment and I am expecting to have my confortable feeling about to feel at home here in Japan, but I did not have time enough with all the university cram, the trips and visits. I just realize that all were so fast in here and the feelings that I will need one month away from here to see what happened in this semester on KG. Another fear is the shock of change that a Japan experience makes to me. Is the first time in a Asian abroad experience, but do not think change that much the difference between Germany or Northern Ireland (Others abroad places). But in this time I will not have time enought to think. So I hope to find a break to balance all it.




Meanwhile more photos from Tokio, that showed me the rude part of the Japanese People and the truth about the nicer Osaka people are. A conflict between a Shinkansen Ticket seller and a Gaijin (foreigner). He was just so rude. But one person do not make the Japanese stereotype. So let's keep looking for it to avoid it.

Asia and the opposite way of living: Thailand

Easy to compare, to create this vision before to go. But nothing to do with that we saw there. I was without any expectation, like I did with Japan before to came here. I am talking about Thailand and the thai people. Yellow shirts, tuk's tuk's and the bargain about every you get there make another stress. Even for me sometimes the food and the smelings were harder that I thought. Maybe is because of my addapt to Japan, this big differences between the two cultures, or just it was so hard. You can smell the pollution in the streets, the traffic is just crazy. And in an Cinema session a documentary about the king made all the people in the room rise up and make silence till he images appeared in the screen. Anyway we had a good time my brother and me. Bangkok night, with some new friends, a couple of days in Koh Samed, an Island were we had our cheap paradise with sports, massage, and great food in the beach. And in the way back some tour in the old Capital of the country. More images in the link below:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=18938&l=3b0fd&id=722556890

The name is Thai Hundle bahts, the english accent is very nice, like the people in there. The thai food were amazing, and I recommend the live thai fighting, funny how the people bet inside. I will came back there, that what I thought before to came to Hirakata again. I'll try not to haggle in Japan, is not that common here at home.



Coming Back in the Rush time

Almost one month after, I post some entries I was preparing after a Rush time. Brother, Sussanah and Katrina made me happy the last month I didn't appear in my Seminar House and University. The friends from Japan see me again. I was out Japan, even if I was visiting the most typical places. I was with the people who came more than the enviroment. The first week My brother invite me to one week in Thailand (more details in the entry "Thailand, hundle bahts"). After this, Susanah came and kidnap him to move around Kansai Area. And Days after cames Miss Otremba. A rent house for a month, relax and a big 4 days trip to Tokio show me that I am more close from Europe again. I wanted to know the point of view of them about Japan. That are some of the phrases I heard:

"Japan is amazing, great, different, but is not a country to live for me. The people, behaviors, don't make me feel to live here"

" The Japanese ladies have the legs so strange don't they?"

" I don't know, something, maybe the differences in the way of living, think, one month is ok, maybe a year, but not more. And who does more is because the person loves this places, no matters what"

"The food, amazing" & " I am not gonna eat this"

That are some of the analysis I took from their experiences, and oppinions about what they saw here. Is a point of view to see the Cross culture between Japan, Germany and Spain like we saw in Class. That are some photos related with this time:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=20772&l=66f6a&id=722556890

Hope you enjoy like I did this time.