The Eye of Patrick

Today is friday… updating my journal again. I got home from golf club a couple hours ago, and i feel exhausted, too exhausted to go out. It is a friday but i lack the energy to even think of going out… how sad am i haha…. But it is ok, today i finished my japanese tests which lasted about a week. It was 4 tests in total, 2 for each class. So it was a lot of studying… but it was good, as i said before i was not taking my jaapnese too serious, but the last few weeks i have and i am making slow but meaningful progress… and i will make even more. Golf was interesting today as it was suppose to be weight training, but we did not do weight training we played baseball, it was fun to play for fun… i got a hit on my first try which was nice, as i am always worried… when i play sports. Then we played cops and robbers, and that was fun, me and my friend Taku-san were really bad at the game, every time we thought we had won, you know with only one left, someone would come out of no where and hit the can and we would have to start over again… finally we won hehe… and we quit. Then there was team pictures, which i did not think i would be in becuase i had only joined the team a few days ago, but they let me get in it, which was kind of them, and made me want to come to more pratices, it was very tiring That is why i am here. I will go to a festival tomorrow, for my class, i will take many pictures. I have decided to add a new part to my journal.

Reflection on Japan

What did i notice today, humm… that Japanese people relative to western cultures are more willing to dicuss personal matters. I made i have had discussions with people i just met regarding topics like sex, to drugs, it is amazing. But then at the same time, there is a more hierachical society, like in my golf club, like the power of positions is more definite. I think the reason that this may be the case is that in Japan there is a less of a worry to embrass yourself, i mean if you look at TV or people you met you notice this, they are less worried to do karoake even when they are bad. It is interesting to richness i have discovered in a culture that is percieved to be one of the more conserative ones