Baka Gaijin - Part 2
Well, I’m not sure If I did the baka gaijin part 1, but here it goes. Sometimes you just do stupid things. Specially when you are in Japan. The funny thing about doing stupid things in Japan, is that the japanese are incredibly cool about it.
Anyway
- A week ago, I forgot my umbrella in the international centre. The thing is, japanese buildings usually have many different places, in halls, in corridors, before rooms, where you can leave your umbrella, so even if no one took it, it is not hard to lose one. So I bought a new one when it was raining. One day I took my new umbrella with me, and in the way I found the old one! To make things worse, although it was quite cloudy in the morning, the day turned up to be sunny, so there I was, walking around in a sunny day with TWO umbrellas.
- Then this other day I was up late (3 am, like today) doing silly things (like my japanese homework). I had class the following morning, and I thought I wouldn’t be able to wake up in time to take the train to go to class. Thus I decided to just stay up until classtime. When I get to the campus, at 7:30, I find a note saying that class had been cancelled. Bummer… So I go catch some sleep in the International Student’s lobby, and a few hours later I’m woken up by a startled japanese teacher who wonders If everything was ok with me. Anyone who has been in Japan will doubt me, but I swear it is freaking true. Of course she was floored at listening to my explanation.
- Then today I was buying some stuff at a convenience stop, and couldn’t find my wallet. I spend like 10 minutes in front of the clerk looking for it in my backpack, about to think that I had lost it, when the clark asks me politely “Is this what you’re looking for?” It turns out my wallet was hanging out an outer pocket of my backpack. DUH
- Ok the last one isn’t exactly stupid, but to keep on with the spirit, today I scared a japanese girl into not entering the elevator with me. I guess a maniacal looking computer geek clutching “The art of computer programming Vol 1″ against his chest is such a fearsome image.
That’s it folks. And there are a few new pics of my classmates in my picture album. They’re not “the monkeys” but are (mostly) nice people.
July 15th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
AAAaaahahahahahhahaha
So funny~~~ oops sorry. -__-
I am going to vietnam on the 23rd. Hee hee.
Your encounters are so amusing, I wish I looked like a gaijin while I was in Japan.
July 16th, 2005 at 8:36 am
But you did look like a Gaijin… an asian gaijin, but a gaijin nonetheless.
But, maybe indeed there are some unique differences between looking like an asian on non-asian gaijin here in Japan.
According to a friend of mine: “The far weird looks exotic, the near weird looks unsettling”. Something which really applies for the whole world.