Being here made me realize how important communication is to a society. How we communicate to one another is how we express ourselves to others. If you dont speak someone's language you cannot express your views or opinions. Your striped of a personality because you fail to share it because your lack of common language.
I use the example of "Albert Einstein". If Albert Einstein was in Japan (and alive of course ) , and he doesn't know Japanese . Then he's nobody. He cant express this thoughts , views, theorys , or discussions. Nothing. SO he's just diminished to nothing.
Thats how I feel . In class I get so frustrated I start saying things to them in english even knowing they dont understand me . Im like , "Look I dont understand you and you dont even know what Im saying but please im sorry" , or something meaner but , its very emotional for me.
Im majoring in Journalism , so Im use to expressing myself better in words. Creating-and getting out my opinions . Using words to express appreciation and favor for something . But here , just telling my chinese friend that I appreciate her friendship is a feat in itself.
I get sad after class most times. And miss home .
Some people might think Im over exaggerating , or think "Its not that bad" . But you have no idea.
Lets say for instance I want to go out to eat for lunch. WELL everyone here speaks Japanese so unless you know how to order a medium sized bowl of beef and rice in Japanese YOUR SCREWED. Thank God for places with picture menus , because without them id be starving.
How about going out at night you ask? Clubbing? oh my friend , not so easy ! So first you gotta find the cool spots... how? You dont know anyone , OK lets test out a place , where is it at ? "Check map quest" - hey guess what map quest in Japan is IN JAPANESE , so IM SCREWED!
ok get to the club ? Guess what your the only foreigner and cant speak to anyone in there , SCREWED !!!
Hey looking for a certain food in the supermarket? Want to know how much something cost? Unless u know how to ask YOUR SCREWED! I get by in this society by reading everything I can.
WHAT I DO KNOW : is how to read Japanese , how to observe people , and copy things . So i read all prices labeled under the food and such. I watch people so I know how to act in places like restaurants and such. Even when I go shopping they say so much and im like "Yeah sure thanks " - well thats something I can say in Japanese but IT SUCKS.
SO in class there's actually a lot of cool looking and nice people. And i cant even communicate with them . And their names are too weird so I dont even bother learning their names. "SHINSHU" is an example of a name. Then the next guy is "SHINSU" its like whoa im gonna confuse that forget it.
So thats how I feel today.
its a long weekend , monday is labor day here in Japan so I have the day off from school .
Thank the lord !
So ill post tons of pix tommarow.
Have a good day , for me , please.
luv norms
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