Sunday, September 21, 2008

Things that are interesting to me in Japan

1. There are little to no trash cans in Japan. There are signs posted various places that tell you in English with a funny little pink hippo to bring your trash home. The Japanese are supposedly a very progressive and green society. So my Coach purse has become my purse/trashcan. Never realized how much trash I make in a day.
2. They do not give you a napkins in any restaurant. Why you may ask same principle as number one. The Japanese carry little wash rags in there bags to conserve on paper. I keep forgetting mine so my shirt/napkin was been mine. I planned to put one in my purse today.
3. The Japanese love to wear anything with English on it even if it is completely inappropriate or does not make any sense. I saw a little girl in something that basically said she was a whore and a little Japanese lady with a Fuck It pin on her purse. I forget all the things that made no sense, but they were funny.
4. The Japanese do not talk on the train. You have a car filled with 100 people and no one is talking. They are either sleeping, reading, or texting. Even the people that no one another do not talk. The only people you will ever hear talking are foreign.
5. The Japanese men and women have these charms that they hang from their cell phone. Reminds me of someone with a bunch of key chains. Imagine that is what is hanging from either their cellphones or with some business men I am told there suits.

Well for now these are my findings will report others interesting things as I see them.

2 comments:

Cathy said...

Well I am sure that purse cost you a fortune good to see you are putting it to good use. Have you mastered the chopsticks yet?

jessica said...

i keep a napkin in my purse just for my runny nose. i guess i am going green.