Jan 11 2008

Yaki-imo yaki-imo yaki-imo

Tag: consumption,food,japan,personal — 8:03 pm

Exciting new experience in the apartment: there’s a guy outside selling baked sweet potatoes, cruising slowly up and down the streets in a van, singing a solemn little song consisting largely of “baked sweet potatoes baked sweet potatoes hurry and get one baked sweet potatoes.” The dorm wasn’t in a convenient neighborhood for that sort of thing.

And I think he just gave up and went home. It’s raining, so there probably aren’t many people out walking right now.

I just googled this, and apparently most sweet potato guys actually use recordings now. This one actually sounded to me like he was really singing, but I’m not sure now…

Jan 11 2008

姫様。ガンダムが好きだ。

Tag: i study japanese,japan,personal — 3:23 pm

The teachers have little files about us that they put notes in. As I have discovered, these notes are occasionally compiled less for purposes of information than for revenge.

“So do you prefer to be called “Hime-sama”?”