Today I was talking with my host sister's husband about the World Cup. He is a die-hard sports fan (looves American football) and his plan for the 3:30am Japan vs. Denmark game was to go to sleep at 9pm in order to watch it. It's the deciding game for Japan to advance to the next round (or as he called it Judgment Day), but I wasn't sure if they had to win or if a tie was okay too. (win = 3 points, tie = 1 point, loss = 0 points, after 3 games top 2 teams from each group of 4 teams get to move on to next round)
So I asked out loud, "Tie okay?" Well, he understood and answered that either a tie or win would be fine. But the other people around the table had different interpretations of the word.
husband: tie (sports, same score)
host sister: Thailand
host mom/her friend: tai fish (鯛 like taiyaki "tai")
It was funny to see their faces when I said "tie" during soccer talk. And the generation gap.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Good-bye America... for now
I’m leaving for Japan in the morning!! My suitcase is a whopping 47 lbs – just under the 50 lbs limit! Before I go I want to share a snippet of my new and improved keyboard…
Wahh… love it! Next time you hear from me I’ll be in Japan! Orientation will be for 2 weeks then classes start in April. See you guys later!
Wahh… love it! Next time you hear from me I’ll be in Japan! Orientation will be for 2 weeks then classes start in April. See you guys later!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
First Post!
Hello blog! Hello world! This is Katelyn's (insert number) attempt at blogging her life.
The purpose of this is to keep all of you updated on all of my recent happenings. Especially when I go abroad to Japan this March. As of now I am still at home in the Bay, but tomorrow night I am heading down to LA to be with school friends at USC. Although I will have a ton of downtime, I am going to be working part time at my job at DEN (recording graduate engineering lectures), hanging with people, and, of course, studying Japanese.
Now I am the type of person to get really excited about new things and then get bored of them really quickly. Blogging and the concept of journaling included. I am re-excited about the whole blogging thing because wow! you can customize layouts and look! I get to write all about me. I will try my best to update this thing and push through the unmotivation that will inevitably strike.
Thanks for reading!
-Katelyn
The purpose of this is to keep all of you updated on all of my recent happenings. Especially when I go abroad to Japan this March. As of now I am still at home in the Bay, but tomorrow night I am heading down to LA to be with school friends at USC. Although I will have a ton of downtime, I am going to be working part time at my job at DEN (recording graduate engineering lectures), hanging with people, and, of course, studying Japanese.
Now I am the type of person to get really excited about new things and then get bored of them really quickly. Blogging and the concept of journaling included. I am re-excited about the whole blogging thing because wow! you can customize layouts and look! I get to write all about me. I will try my best to update this thing and push through the unmotivation that will inevitably strike.
Thanks for reading!
-Katelyn
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