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LITTLE PEACHES
Joined: 25 Jun 2009
Posts: 94
Location: ORANGE COUNTY, CA & TAMA, TOKYO, JAPAN
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 Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:21 am Post subject: what to do differently or experience on your first trip? |
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If you have been to Japan or Tokyo, or are there now, and you could go back and change things about your trip for the first time what would you do? Would you prepare differently? Would you make sure you experience anything?
What things do you wish you did that you didn't get to do? In regards to experiences around the country and yourself? |
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Hot-Carl
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Posts: 63
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| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:46 am Post subject: |
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What does this have to do with teaching?
I guess I would make sure that I brought more yen over the first time. Something more than the 500yen and a ton of Korean won I couldn't exchange until the next day. Hakata sucks with no money. |
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little_kitty
Joined: 22 Apr 2009
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Location: United States
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I would bring a Japanese cookbook translated into English. It's very difficult to walk through a Japanese supermarket and find the proper ingredient if you can't read Kanji! |
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Glenski
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Posts: 12844
Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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| Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:25 am Post subject: |
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Considering my "first trip" was about a quarter of a century ago, and it was a stint in biotech research where I put in 6-day weeks, 14-hour days, there's really not much I can say that I'd have done differently. Couldn't.
Are you just asking in a roundabout way what a newbie teacher should do to prepare? |
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TwinCentre
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 273
Location: Mokotow
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I like this thread! Good question..
I worked in Japan 11 years ago. If I could do it all over again, I would:
Not bother trying to go native and put all that effort into learning the language and trying to understand the culture and make Japanese friends but instead, befriend as many expats as I could and just concentrate on having a good time........oh and travel around the region more.
Why?
Coz after 11 years of working overseas in various countries, my efforts to go native came to nothing in Japan, and were wasted...and I wasn't able to keep in touch with one Japanese person. Not a criticism of Japan or the Japanese....it is just that the point is simply if you are going to stay in a country only for a year or two, then you have to be realistic what you get out of it.
I should of just been one of those terrible Gaijin who behave like they are back home.....would have been more fun! |
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