The Kids
By the look of the stats, nobody is actually reading this anymore. I can’t blame any of you; it would certainly be ore interesting for all of us if I actually did more things. But, as things stand, this is the way it has to be… so let me tell you, my nonaudience, about the students here.
I know I’ve mentioned before how lax things are out here, but it never fails to shock me. A few days ago a guy turned up at me door, asking to interview me for a project, because I was English. I’d never met him before, so how he found out where I lived purely on the basis of my nationality I don’t know, but communication was limited and I didn’t try too hard to find out. The interview was brief but I offered him tea and we got talking about the university. Apparently, APU is supposed to be good. When I asked him about easy universities, and why anybody would ever attend, he told me that really, people only ever go to university to ‘play’.
He told me that for most national Japanese universites tuition fees work out at about Y500,000 per year, but that APU is Y1,200,000. The price is obviously worth it, however, for the Japanese are able to do here what they can never do again in their professional lives:
(Do excuse the blurriness. I was trying not to look too dodgy. Don’t think I came off well.)
These folk are to be congratulated for making it to lessons. A lot of people have their friends sign the register for them and spend theuir time on more important things, like fashion.
There seem to be two paradigms of cool in modern Japanese fashion – the first is that anything written in English is cool, the second that things must strive towards intolerable cuteness. Some dare mix these ideas, though few ever make it out.
As you can see, the rush to produce anything written in English has resulted in a few casuleties. The problem is, in fact, almost epidemic:
No, that isn’t a gothic v, it’s a b. “With mysterious lobe…”
YOU WHO FELL IN LOVE ARE BAD. You Are Defeat.
Again, I tried not to look too odd taking these pictures.
Well I think it’s great. You give areal sense of the place and people it’s great for posterity too love mumx
So good to hear your totally bored i assume this means your head is deep in studies. As noted you obviously love Japanese culture, have been trying to telephone you unsuccessfully japanese reception keeps repeating herself. Will try to contact you on google talk as i come to grips with technology as age and failing health are working against me. All my love intrepid son finding it hard to read all your slogs. Dad. p.s please send me one of those viagara t-shirts.
lol! That’s some well picked images to capture right there. I’m sure the reputation as a strange picture-taking hermit you’ll be getting/have got is worth them…