Misunderstanding of soldiers.

In the place which has U.S. base, it used not to be so rare that U.S. solders picked up girls. But the reason why girls accepted it was for money. In that time, it was way for girls to earn money. And the fact they couldn't earn enough money caused it.
In that age , demand and supply were corresponded in some meaning.


But the age has changed. Girls can afford to live without doing such things. They can get jobs, work and earn enough money to live. So the period which those crime were allowed openly has ended. Girls avoid it because they don't need to do it and now it means only make themselves be looked down on. No balanced shape of demand and supply are left any more.
So it changed shape and became (gang-) rape.


If U.S. soldiers require such things as rewards toward guarding Japan from other countries,
Japan government should think about the existences of U.S. bases again.
In other word, U.S . soldiers make the reputations for their organization and even their country be worse and worse as long as they continue mistaking about "guarding" other countries.

Why I am in IES.

Why am I in IES? Well... there are two reasons. 1.Because I wanted to join and I showed the will when asked. 2. Because I was allowed by the score of TOEFL.
Of course, main reason is the 1st one.

I had been wanted to join IES program since I found the Kansai Gaidai University when I was searching which university to go. I had already decided to major some international or language subject, then searching some mainly Foreign Language University. Then I found Kansai Gaidai, and checked homepage of here. Then I found IES program on this page for applicants. When I found it, my impression was just like, "If I enter the university, I absolutely want to join the program."

Some main reasons why I thought like that are,
1. It said " The program which numbers of students in class are few, and you can study as if you study in foreign country."- I had heard the form or contents of class in foreign country is quit different from that in Japan, so I wanted to experience it for in case if my hope will come true and I would be able to join real foreign country's class.
2. It said," All classes are done only in English."-I had never experienced such
situation and I thought it's clear that to improve English skill, to make myself place in such environment is essential.


2nd reason is short. I fortunately could get enough score to join the program. I thought I would never get such score because I forgot to bring watch when I took the TOEFL and I couldn’t finish all of it.

The second term

It has been about a month since 2nd term started. You may wonder why I am writing about it "now". But I thought now is good timing to write for me.


Well, what I did since the 2nd term has started and until now was looks similar to what I did in the 1nd term, but completely.

First, frequencies of hanging out with my friends increased so much, really REALLY much.
The number of days which I was with some friends are much more than days which I'm alone after school. It's okay, of course , but also it is true that much amount of money has gone it happens because of my way of thinking that "If now is fun, it's okay;)"..X( And it connects my horrible late of presence at classes..
Stupid!!!


Second, my free time decreased a lot. That's because I have started working in addition the reason I wrote as 1st. In my opinion, free time means the time which you do what you want to do by yourself and just relax alone. For me, it's really important time. I didn't recognized until reentry, (Actually I thought it caused nothing if I didn't spent) but I found that I absolutely need it . Without it, stresses increase gradually and I become to be not tender when I talk with someone. Sorry if I make you feel bad recently X(;;


Third, I became not cooking almost at all. Because of mainly the reason of 1st, I buy every meal recently. I know it's bad...but I cant.. it's too tiring for me to do now.. I respect people who make meals after/before working or hanging out. That is one cause why I'm such a poor.
And also one cause I got to be such fat X(!


Fourth, my brain seems to have become worse. I don't know you understand what I'm trying to say, but it happens actually. Someone calls it summer vacation lag.. every time I try to think about something seriously, my brain doesn't work as I order. Something like, to do some reading in class, memorizing something, thinking about my/ other people's worries... I try to concentrate, but I can't. Maybe it's because I didn't use my brain almost at all during summer vacation? Or am I sick?? Recently I'm worrying about it seriously...



Of course, there are not only bad changes but also good ones. For example, by being together for much and much more time, I got to be clother with my friends the before.
And by starting part time job, i could meet many new people there and they are all really good.

But....still bad changes are stronger...



Hummm.....I must make it better by all means...

Birthday Party

This Wednesday, I went to a birthday party of a foreign student, Mike. He is from NY , very cute and kind. It was his 19thbirthday.


Before I went there, I had to go to induction of my part time job. It was first time for me to meet other co-workers. Most of them are students of Kansai Gaidai and are really nice.
It is my first time to work, so I was really worried about it, but it seems to be fun to work with them. ( Here is the homepage of where I work, Kichiri, izakaya. ) I have to go to 1st level inductions for three times, and after that, 2nd.level inductions will start from 16th to 25th, everyday;(!! In addition, the 1st level inductions are for free, then I had to pay to my way to and from Honmachi( Next to Shinsaibashi) by my self...;( It costed over 1000yen and I became very poor..;(


After the induction, I went to Daddy's bar and met Mari there. I had hard the party would start from 10;00, but no one, even Mike himself hasn't come yet then. So we were just talking for about an hour or more.


Mike and some other people arrived at park(It was held at the part near by Daddy's bar) around 11:30. The member ware Mike, other foreign student Jane, Takuji and Yuri.
It was surprise that there are only these people. We had heard many many people would come!
Mike looked so sad.. and he drunk a lot.... But! After about an hour, lots of people came!!
Everyone was relieved so much.



The party continued until early morning. I went to home around 4:30 with Yuri. We ate instant yakisoba and went to bed.


Happy Birthday Mike!!

Loanwords

As both the writer ,Tomoko Otake and Sao Paulo said, there are so many loanwords now in Japan. And it is true that even though you use Japanese as your mother tongue, you sometimes cannot understand what the loanword means, especially the when the word is related to politics or economy. For example, a lot of politicians use such words during his/her speech, but few of the audience really understand what they are meaning. But as long as live normally, native Japanese speakers do not get in trouble to communicate each other because of misunderstanding related to the loanwords. Because people live surrounded by people who are same level. People around you talk with you based on almost same level of knowledge and knowledge of language. So if you cannot understand, they maybe cannot understand either. Everyone knows it unconsciously, we rarely feel uncomfortable about it.
It seems to be much more confusing for people from abroad, especially who understand English.
Something they say naturally might sounds what makes no sense for Japanese. Same thing happens from Japanese to foreigner. That is exactly one of the misunderstandings.
Sao wrote that he feels tiresome to read something which includes some English words with no sense. I can imagine how stressful it is. But on the other hand, it is true that if everything is written in only right Hiragana and Kanji, it is really tiresome for us, Japanese. It shows how large amount of civil rights such common used loanwords got.