SO, here in Kyoto, and having good fun. Its a crazy place. Like seriously crazy....
Time is about to run out again, and i still want to write more and tel you all about everythng here. first off, the keyboard is nuts and has 4 characters on each key, so typing is challenging. hence the lack of capital letters. too tough to do fast.
did my speech today, went well. getting better at being confident about saying hello and thankyou. ohiyo gozaimas is good morning. did that well too. but did have some problems....
Truly, the people are really lovely and very cute. been practising alot of words with them, but still making aot of mistakes. FOR EXAMPLE: on volleyball court playing with some junior high students and giving high fives after good plays and just having good fun. next play, i mess up and take the ball from one of the students and lose the point, so I want to say sorry and try to be smart and say it in japanese. So I say " tami masen". she looks at me with blank look and very confused, so I say it again, figuring i said it too fast ( i was pretty confident that what i was saying was right). nope. more blank looks. so i gave up and next time i made a mistake i said "sorry". communication was spot on. she knew what i meant. Found out later that what i HAD said was " i eat". And then said again, "I EAT!" No wonder she was confused.....Hope you are well and communicating fine with the people around you. make sure you don:t take communication for granted.....EVER! Blank looks and body language can only get you so far....
more to follow,
CK
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